A review by paladinjane
The 10th Kingdom by Kathryn Wesley, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
1.0
This is a novelization of a miniseries TV show, and from what I can remember of the show, this book of course follows it very well.
I had forgotten how creepy Wolf is. This is yet another book/show where obsession is treated as great romance. Sure, he can sometimes be a funny character and he has a few sweet moments, but he's also an extremely problematic character. Virginia is very much an object to him (the exact type of objectification ranging from sexual object to food source, as he is still a wolf) and he spends the book trying to manipulate her into falling for him. Wolf's efforts and expressions of desire that are played for laughs in the book would be deeply disturbing in real life.
I had forgotten how creepy Wolf is. This is yet another book/show where obsession is treated as great romance. Sure, he can sometimes be a funny character and he has a few sweet moments, but he's also an extremely problematic character. Virginia is very much an object to him (the exact type of objectification ranging from sexual object to food source, as he is still a wolf) and he spends the book trying to manipulate her into falling for him. Wolf's efforts and expressions of desire that are played for laughs in the book would be deeply disturbing in real life.