A review by alliebookworm
In the Company of Ogres by A. Lee Martinez

3.0

I love A. Lee Martinez, and there were many elements in this book that I thoroughly enjoyed. The characters always roll with the bizarre situations they find themselves in, the humor is subtle and entertaining, and I love the kooky cast of characters. However, it’s got some solid 2006-era sexism, in which the only two female characters throw themselves at our dim-witted main character for no particular reason and try to fight each other to the death over him. Suffice it to say, the book doesn’t pass the Bechdel test. The descriptions of Regina, the lusty Amazon who wants men to find her attractive and beats them up for saying so, would have been hilarious when it was written - I’m sure I would have laughed myself. But now it just made me sad. Still an entertaining book that I was annoyed to have interrupted during the big ending battle though.