I have seen a few reviews on this book but this is the first I am hearing about these conversations and I found both really fascinating. Especially what you bring up later about how we are putting more of a burden on a female author than their male counterparts.
@ThatsSoPoe
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting discussion! We've been looking forward to this video. Totally agreed about the lack of motivation for publishers.
@PaulWeymouth
4 жыл бұрын
Great video Bree! I agree with a lot of what you said.
@WorldsinInk
4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting topic indeed. I have no problem with content warnings myself, and can see how they can be immensely useful to someone. I definitely don't think it should be expected of the author to provide those content warnings. As you rightfully pointed out it's a marketing issue. You can't crucify an author for the lack of content warnings or use a double standard based on who the author is. If it becomes an industry standard it would be great, but there's also a chance it would be detrimental to the industry especially in today's 'cancel-culture'.
@element7795
4 жыл бұрын
Nice to finally see someone that I've followed on Goodreads. I had a very different take on this book. This is, to me, an interesting example of magical realism like Tim Powers' work where the people who are in the know of the real natural laws take advantage of them to get ahead. In this case it is the eight secret societies and they are so aggressive that they appointed their own supervisory house, the ninth house. A bit like the baseball commissioner , to avoid another scandal that will get them permanently banned (if not burned at the stake.) Of course some of these guys are such creeps that they can't follow the rules. Every few years the ninth house needs to be funded by the other eight and this is the time to break the rules. As far as content warning, I count on the reviewers to call out books and parents to look at what books their teen kids want to read.
@tarabyt3
4 жыл бұрын
There's always going to be an issue with trigger warnings because there are SO MANY potential triggers. You could say, "Well, just do the major ones" but that ends up trivializing triggers that are clearly a big deal to their people. I would absolutely be down with require book ratings like they do with movies: "Rated PG-13 for such and such general reason" which would be an easy-ish way to at least rule out some issues. It's complicated and difficult and there's no good answer, but it's definitely something that should be discussed. (Also, I have not at all been party to these comments on this book, but how interesting to point out the gender issue...) I'm good and warm here, lol. YOU stay warm!
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