Romantasy Books are Toxic, Lazy, Conservative Propaganda

A Court of Thorns and Roses, Fourth Wing, Quicks, all of these books, they start with a brave, brazen young woman, someone to admire. Then they present you with a horrible, abusive man.

I fully understand the war, the politics, the geography, the history of this place. It's very well established. I understand the mechanics of it and I can imagine it as a real world.

I found Fourth Wing to be so fun and funny. It is action-packed. It is full of jokes, although I think about half the time, maybe more than that.

But the author has fully colored in the world that you then step into. You understand how it all works. The edges of the map have been filled in.

Quicksilver feels like the worst offender as well because as I keep saying for a 100red pages we are convinced to root for a young woman who is proud, who is sexually liberated, who is daring and strong, who defends other people, who is roguish and cheeky and has a really colorful personality until all of that is stripped away from her and an abusive man literally kidnaps her, takes her somewhere else demeanes her, abuses her, makes her feel small and frightened, and bullies her into a romance with him.

And I've never ever read a book as awfully written and pretentiously written as When the Moon Hatched. I didn't finish this book. It's not possible because there's no way to actually track what's going on.