Lunatic Fringe by Allison Moon
My rating: 3/5 cats
i know i said i was only going to read YA until my paper was due, but sometimes people sidle up to me at work and ask me to read their friend’s book, and you just have to, you know??
i was going to give this thing 2 stars cats, when i was only three chapters in. the was so steeped in feminist dogma, i was getting a little twitchy with it. don’t tell me this is going to be a lesbian werewolf book and then give me speeches about the horrors of the patriarchy, because then i’m just going to be looking for the nearest possible exit.
fortunately, after that character was done saying her bit, the book got a lot better. not great, but at least i could read it without getting frustrated with the narrowness of its gender politics.
i debated whether or not it should go on my “icky sex” shelf, but i think if both characters are werewolves, it is not technically bestiality. blood and chocolate had scenes where the participants were in the process of changing forms, which allowed me to declare “icky,” but this one escapes that classification.
but just barely.
i think this is perfectly suitable for a YA audience, which gives me some relief that i went against my stated plans, although there are indeed some sexy sexy scenes. but kids today—they will probably not be scarred by it, and in the midst of all the tired old femtheory, can probably extract enough useful information about the importance of choosing one’s own path and making the right decisions for their own personal philosophies.
it is not something i would have chosen on my own, but it is sometimes good to see what else is out there, and now i have one more book to add to my arsenal in my “werewolves are just not sexy to me” argument.
so thank goodness for that.
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