A Strange and Stubborn Endurance

[psocoptera]

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, Foz Meadows. Arranged-marriage romance novel coupled with court-intrigue fantasy; I quite enjoyed it but can only recommend it if you like dudes. (It's m/m.) I was impressed with Meadows' development of the relationship and ratcheting-up of the peril, violence, etc. Content notes for rape, suicidality, and animal harm. (The first two are warned for in an in-book note, the third is not but felt to me like a case where people who want to know about that would want to know about it.)

Comments

[ursula]

I bounced hard off this one at the roll-your-own semi-judicial violence. I think this was an idiosyncratic reaction, but it's also an issue with content notes generally--I can be more patient with characters whose ethical intuitions are different from mine when the book as a whole feels less didactic.