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A review by emcl7weenie
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
Did not finish book. Stopped at 36%.
*This will be personal preference for sure*
The book world and concept are awesome. I really love the writing. It is a slow set up that focuses more on the main character than the world plot which is fine. (Some people in my book club didn't finish due to the slowness. Some of us weren't bothered by it.)
The reason I DNF was due to the amount of sexual content and main character sexualizing women. The sexual content is really not graphic (would not consider it smut or detailed. All consensual so far.) But the amount of times a woman is described only through her looks or that he is having an erection or ideas of what he wants to do, etc. It it jarring to me. In real life some people are more sex driven than others, it is life. But to me it kept taking away from great female characters, pausing the flow of the sentence/paragraph/story
I might come back and pick it up again at some point because the world is awesome.
The book world and concept are awesome. I really love the writing. It is a slow set up that focuses more on the main character than the world plot which is fine. (Some people in my book club didn't finish due to the slowness. Some of us weren't bothered by it.)
The reason I DNF was due to the amount of sexual content and main character sexualizing women. The sexual content is really not graphic (would not consider it smut or detailed. All consensual so far.) But the amount of times a woman is described only through her looks or that he is having an erection or ideas of what he wants to do, etc. It it jarring to me. In real life some people are more sex driven than others, it is life. But to me it kept taking away from great female characters, pausing the flow of the sentence/paragraph/story
I might come back and pick it up again at some point because the world is awesome.