Reviews with content warning for Violence - Furies of Calderon

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Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

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aecatec's review against another edition

2.0

At first, this was just very tropey, but fun enough, but very quickly the tropes devolved into stereotypes. Misogyny, rape culture, anti-indigenous sentiment (this was the worst for me), sympathetic MCs who own slaves... If this hadn't been a book club read, I would not have finished it.

That being said, it gets two instead of one star because there *was* fun worldbuilding here and there, and some of the characters could be fun to read about sometimes. However, I only thought about this book when I got angry about the above. lol.

Also, there were WAY too many characters with names that started with A.

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dm_pat's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

It's clearly early Butcher, which means it's rough and more than a little sexist. When it gets out of its own way with that bullshit, it's entertaining and a fun adventure.

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nepenthesbaphomet's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? It's complicated

1.0

To many references to sexual assault and to much of a focus on slavery in the world for me. It's wild how the author can come up with a whole fantasy setting but have to rely on sexual assault and slavery to drive the story. Not creative in my opinion.

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ladysanctuary's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A pretty solid fantasy romp, with some relatively interesting magic mechanics.
I was initially impressed by the introduction of two women without being given a description of their breasts, though this was quickly rectified. Despite this, and some very uncomfortable sexual violence the book generally and ultimately depicted most of its characters pretty well in service of the story and inter-character relationships.

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