Finley Mox

The facts only matter when convenient

Revisado: 09-06-22

First: I'm a 34 year old white male with a degree in Anthropology, emphasis in Archaeology. In the end, if you care about accurate knowledge all you should ultimately need to know is that ~10 hours in, she officially just started quoting the Bible, sans any other evidence whatsoever, as archaeological - and thus historical - fact.

She also literally makes a "joke" that ends with " in (year) BCE, because the 'C' wasn't born yet!". For ANYONE to have the audacity to teach at the level she supposedly does, and to willfully teach the misrepresentation of "before common era" as "before Christ's era" is frankly academically disgusting as well as shameful. Friend, the entire reason we transitioned away from "before Christ" as a marker of time is because we switched to using something we have MEASURABLE, VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE FOR.

The whole thing was handled without anything close to basic due diligence, or responsibility to teaching fact with as much intention to (and awareness of) your own biases as possible, even before I finally gave up when she decided the Bible itself, alone, all by it's lonesome, constituted historically accurate knowledge which clearly met academic rigor. Perpetuating ignorance serves no one.

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Story, writing, content? V. good. Reader? It HURT.

Revisado: 08-17-21

This sequel was not as good as the first, but it continued the trend of "just about every slightly to moderately kinky thing you might know about", but versus many, many other writers this one pulls it off pretty well in both stories - and the actual story management and world are better done than most I've encountered in this theme/genre.

So, here's the thing. I believe this author writes and develops plot well. The dialogue, minus the section all this genre seems to have where the main character's, well, /character/ changes inexplicably to be whinier and suddenly seems rather stupid in a way she wasn't before (and eventually, mostly, stops being so dumb a little later, this case), is well done.

UNTIL YOU HEAR THE READERS. I have a very wide tolerance for reading styles, when the story is good enough. I got through one of my all time favorite novels with the guy reading the female MC's name totally wrong the entire 32 hours and I made it through.

A bad reader will take a great story and flatten it into obvious stereotypes and BS they have internalized, especially about women in my experience, because that's just how they assume any person (woman) would behave, not understanding the character or their sense of self and clearly not making an attempt to do so.

To be fair, Vanessa Moyen was a better reader, even good perhaps, but not more than good. If it were only her, I wouldn't be so utterly disappointed. She's the only reason there are two stars.

Lucas Webley, on the other hand...

This is written in a way where I would call it pretty close to a feminist novel, more so than most in this genre who make the attempt to be. Webley manages to make everything he says from the MC's POV whiny, and the tone is basically never what seems congruent with the way the character is read. He randomly began pronouncing female characters names incorrectly, was seemingly incapable of a woman saying anything in a tone that wasn't either an attempt at sultry or as if she was at best simple and often as if dumb, even when it makes zero sense with the dialogue or story or context up until said point, or even within the scene, and in what I find awful when it is chronic and not the periodic error: he will change voices mid dialogue because he realizes he started as a character voice for some other character...WHEN he corrects it at all.

I bought the newest novel by Walker, and Webley is still one of the narrators. I am desperately hoping he has improved, because if he hasn't I'll likely have to give up this author, which is a disappointment because so far they're in my top 3, possibly top 2 for story, world building, dialogue, interest, originality, and sex, out of the dozen or so authors I've read in the supernatural reverse harem style at this point. I don't have time to sit with a physical (digital) written book often, so it will truly be sad to me if he hasn't improved. I'm willing to offer a lot of leeway for growth, I just hope he has gotten better, because it sucks to lose out on a good author because of a disappointing and uninvested reader.

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