Margaret’s Reviews > A Shiver of Light > Status Update

I just slogged through a page and a half of the most useless descriptions and information just to get to some kind of point? I can't bring myself to care because it's taken SO GODDAMNED LONG TO GET THERE.

"She was wearing a sleek black pantsuit that covered almost all of her; only the lack of a shirt underneath the vest left more cleavage than Auntie Andais should probably have been flashing around her nephew and nieces," A) guess what your babies feed from? B) this is meant to be NBD for a fae C) nice slut-shaming, Merry D) sexualising otherwise non-sexual things continues!

Sex scene interrupted for a Very Serious Conversation on the cultural significance of the sidhe having long hair. Even though it pretty much boils down to "because I think it's sexy!" and is part of a greater pattern of racism. Especially after the whole 'white guy kills unnamed brown people to clean up the neighbourhood' thing last chapter. EEEUUGHHH.

"...body arching up against their hands like a cat, except I was lying on my back and arching things up toward them that cats didn’t offer their owners." ROMANCE AND SEXINESS *SWOON*

There's a guy slowly bleeding to death but no big, why bother dealing with that when you can just make out with him.

I'm learning more than I ever wanted to know about goblin sexual proclivities. Which is to say none. I wanted to know none of this. And yet here we are.

I feel like the author's dipped into some psychology and doesn't quite understand the concepts that she's using.

I EMERGE FROM CHAPTER TEN VICTORIOUS! I stand upon its corpse and bellow at the next chapter that lurks in the shadows. I shall feast upon its words on the morrow and then it too will perish. This book will not defeat me.

I have spent ten pages wading through endless descriptions of what everyone is and is not wearing and where they're standing. TEN PAGES.

HOLY MONKEYS I'm past chapter 7! I'm really looking forward to scraping past page 100 to look back at all the nothing that has happened.