elstaffe’s Reviews > Hunting Julian > Status Update

"Asia was frankly surprised to hear such a gracious concession from a member of the implacable Ampliphi. It immediately served to soften her opinion of the others. Just because there was one bad egg in the bunch didn't mean they were all bad." (326) oh BOY. and this with a woman-of-color sister named Kenya who previously lived in the United States of America with its police

"'I'm never really going to need you. You understand that, right? I mean, I'm not the needy sort. I don't need rescuing and I don't need handholding or any of that weak girly crap.'" (314) ah, just in case we were worried the heroine had grown out of her internalized misogyny

"[Kenya] was wearing a very elegant, delicately embroidered shawl draped gently over her head and hair, the deep maroon color of it positively breathtaking against the smooth mocha warmth of her mulatto coloring." (264) WHOA THERE. I mean, I guess this book was published in *checks* THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWO THOUSAND AND TEN? WTF?

"Their mother had been something of a free spirit, traveling the globe where the will and the wind took her. A matter-of-fact kind of woman, she'd named her children for the country or continent they'd been conceived in." (264) So Kenya...and "Asia", because who could choose a country that sounds like a name from that continent. At least it wasn't the reverse, with Africa being the continent (or, worse, "country")

"'Sometimes I wish Earth functioned more in black and white and spent less time wading around in the muck of the forever gray. There are many injustices in my world because of that.'" (251) COOL. definitely need more absolutist thinking in the world. super.

"'Rare and precious as they are to us, as reverently as we treat them, they would throw it all back in our faces? They are somehow unsatisfied to the point that they commit treachery for some reason? What is it we don't give them that they could possibly want, what is it that measures as enough reason to betray that status among their people?'" (151) how dare they reject our pedestal

"'To us the female body is a temple where we are blessed with the opportunity to worship, and the woman herself a goddess bestowing wondrous favors of passion, brilliance, and energy. Your sex is our salvation and our satiation, the ultimate prize we can earn if we are dutifully respectful and honorable enough to earn her attention and favor.'" (150) weird way to spell 'we trap women on a pedestal'

if I lived in a culture where women criminals were punished by being sent to brothels where they were forced to have sex with whoever paid for them I would simply not go pay and force them to have sex with me

"'It cannot be called rape or forced when the person who is committing the treachery is aware of the penalty they are flirting with. ... You have no comprehension how distasteful it is to the men of this world to treat a woman with anything less than the most gracious and honorable respect!'" (150) this is...truly disgusting

"It was almost creepy, how many of the qualities that made a king could also be attributed to the psychopathic mind. To be fair to herself, it wasn't often you found royalty bouncing at a long chain of clubs." (128-129) wasn't it though