I really enjoyed them while I was reading them, but I find that they don't linger in my mind like favoritest books should, so I have since downgraded them from "faves" to "good solid fantasy." All that to say: I can understand why they don't quite work for you!
and she is very clearly experiencing The Genders about it, but the author is completely and utterly unaware of this fact in a very "I'm cis and have never considered what it means to be a gender" kind of way that feels like it belongs to a bygone era of crossdressing novels.
Yeah....
I did, throughout the whole read, keep finding myself thinking "This is like spinning silver except spinning silver did it so much better. Why am I not just rereading spinning silver instead."
Oh, absolutely.
Anyway Konstantin's terrible but in a different way, and I could never quite hold it in my head what kind of way that was, lol.
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and she is very clearly experiencing The Genders about it, but the author is completely and utterly unaware of this fact in a very "I'm cis and have never considered what it means to be a gender" kind of way that feels like it belongs to a bygone era of crossdressing novels.
Yeah....
I did, throughout the whole read, keep finding myself thinking "This is like spinning silver except spinning silver did it so much better. Why am I not just rereading spinning silver instead."
Oh, absolutely.
Anyway Konstantin's terrible but in a different way, and I could never quite hold it in my head what kind of way that was, lol.
Ha!