Legendary Teeth

misogyny, sexism, and toxic masculinity

Revisado: 03-07-20

I honestly couldn't even get through this book. It was just scene after scene of misogyny, sexual assault, kidnapping, and date rape drugging. The female character was constantly controlled by the male, who threatened or drugged her any time she tried to express her own opinion. Over time she realized that he knew what was best for her and that she should just give in to him ... great messaging there. To add insult to injury, the male character literally rapes, drugs, then turns her into a vampire against her will... but his behaviour is explained away by the author saying he just couldn't control himself because he's a male of his race. So being male means he apparently cannot control his urges. And again, how is this toxic masculinity good for anyone? how is this romance?

Oh, and there's this scene where she sneaks out of the house he locks her in, and she makes friends with a guy. So her kidnapper and rapist (sorry, the male lead, her apparent love interest) freaks out and threatens to kill her friend if she says anything. So she has to stand there in silence because she literally believes he will kill this poor human if she says anything. Again, the messaging here is terrible: that love and romance is toxic mistrust and jealousy.

Honestly, this book describes a relationship that is the epitome of unhealthy. What I've learned from this book is that women should be controlled by men, men know what's best for women, men can't help but rape the women they're attracted to, women can't have male friends, if a woman won't go with man he should just drug her and kidnap her (and probably she will want you when she comes to), if a man controls a woman she will love him, threatening to kill yourself if your partner decides to leave you is an acceptable way to handle the situation (and your partner won't leave you and will love you forever), and all of the above is ROMANCE.

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Plot caused by poor communication

Revisado: 08-03-18

Luke Daniels was great as ever, but unfortunately every problem is caused by everyone acting out of character, refusing to communicate, and being really bad at being a time traveller.

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Space Elephants!

Revisado: 03-08-18

A story about precognitive space elephants narrated by General Martok? Yes please.

The story is quite good, but the narrator, J. G. Hertzler is perfect. Listening to him read this story is like settling in by the fireplace in your library into your most comfortable chair on a cold winters night, with no plans except to spend a few hours just reading a good book. Except you don't have to have any of those things and can in fact be sitting on the bus commuting to work.

Hertzler has great range of you only know him from Deep Space 9. And the story itself is very interesting and different.

Highly recommended.

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Dissapointing

Revisado: 11-07-17

Short sighted and cowardly main characters. It starts out strong but gets worse as it goes.

Spoilers:

If it had ended before the last chapter, it would have been a decent what-if about a generation ship going to a planet and not being able to colonise it. But in the last chapter they decide that means no one should ever try colonising again because it will never work and we shouldn't do anything like that when there are still things to fix on Earth.

Even if you accept their premise that it's immoral to send volunteers on potentially doomed colonization missions because their children didn't have the chance to volunteer, the only actual problem with the colonization plans was that they would take took long to create a viablely sized habitat and everyonr would probably die. So send multiple missions of volunteers. Or ships big enough to be self sustaining. Or go back and forth. By the end of the book they have invented hibernation technologoy, and they have self replicating robots. They could have automated robots doing work while people fly around sleeping most of the time.

There are many possible solutions to the problems outlined in the book coming from options already presented in the book. The fact that the main characters refused to consider them and instead condemned all colonisation efforts (comparing it to eugenics!) is a recipie for the worst kind of sci-fi.

I would have rather the story continued with the doomed colony than watch those failures get back to Earth.

Ali Ahmad did a great performance, however.

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Great!

Revisado: 09-21-16

It's nice to have a main character that, while having flaws, still makes intelligent choices, and bad guys that have reasonable motivations rather than just being belligerent or crazy for it's own sake.

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Interesting premise ruined by a lame side plot

Revisado: 09-08-16

Not really about "the excession", just a vessel to tell a dumb story about a mopey hermit lady.

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Not bad

Revisado: 07-15-16

A rambling wander across the US. How that sounds to you will determine how much you like it.

Not super tight, not super thrilling, but a bit interesting, and a great cast.

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Great book, well presented

Revisado: 05-27-16

this book is great! the story is interesting and the characters are great! it's well - presented too.

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