slowtime’s Reviews > The Queen of the Tearling > Status Update

"Do you have children, Lady Andrews?” “No, Majesty.” Of course not, Kelsea thought. Children conceived by this woman would only be cannibalized by her womb." WHAT

So far the only apt comparison I'm seeing to Game of Thrones is the amount of sexual violence and all-around violence against women. It's pretty damn relentless, and not remotely justified.

Queen Kelsea calls another woman a "hussy" for no other reason than that the woman had an elaborate hairdo and wore a "flimsy, too feminine" tiara. Which, btw, Queen Kelsea had one of her guardsmen steal from her by wrestling it directly from her head. But hey, the lady had a stupid hairdo, so I guess she was asking for it?

And we know the Red Queen is evil because every time we get her POV, she's either just had sex or is about to have sex. (Sex in this world seems to always either be non-consensual or a sign of moral weakness, if not both.) Sigh.

Wait, it gets better! The former Queen's sluttiness was alluded to earlier, and her shallowness is reinforced every time we're given details about her pretty dresses and fondness for bed pillows, but now we get the real confirmation of her silliness and loose ways: she had three casual abortions before giving birth to our heroine. Because she was too "absentminded" to take her birth control. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.

See, you know the uncle is evil because he's fat. That's what marks his evil as intrinsic rather than acquired. It's in his body. See?