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anilEhilated posted:Anyone read the newest Tim Powers, Alternate Routes? Is it any good? Powers has this thing where his good books are utterly amazing and his worse books become total stinkers. Stinker IMO. Real disappointment; felt like it was written by someone else.
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QueenOfTheEvening posted:The difference here is that Harry is a human who chose to take up power, Molly was a human who had even greater power thrust upon her accidentally. Just because Harry is a stubborn prick, and Mab planned for that, doesn't mean the same is true of Molly as the Lady.
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Honestly the world has also changed since he wrote the earlier books - don’t get me wrong, the creepy elements were creepy then and creepy now, but I think the skeeviness of stuff like the White Court, the Winter Knight rape fantasy stuff etc is all vastly more out of tune with the times than a couple of decades ago. It was much more common in sci fi and fantasy literature but discourse around toxic masculinity, sexual violence and consent has evolved and I think there is a wider expectation (rightly) it should be more sensitively handled these days. Basically I think a lot of Dresden has dated badly.
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