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Melissa Manthorne's Reviews > Agatha H and the Airship City
Agatha H and the Airship City (Girl Genius, #1)
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DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK FOR ANY YOUNG FANTASY FANS. And don’t read this book unless your idea of “girl genius” is very young women with big boobs whose clothing mysteriously goes missing regularly.
It felt like it was written by one of the creepy male teachers who used to openly ogle me in middle school. Gross! And this is coming from someone who has read the entire Dresden Files multiple times. I can put up with a lot of casual sexism and male authors who I wouldn’t trust with a Barbie doll. This book made me rage quit.
Several times during the reading I thought that this might feel less pervy as a show or a comic. I’m reading now that this was a novelization of a comic. Maybe that works, but if the author ever sees this — I am a woman who has to live in a very exaggerated, comic book heroine body. Your book is bringing up a lifetime of suppressed rage at being treated like a sex doll who might have other promising characteristics, but nobody knows or cares because we’re all so distracted by the boobs. It’s a burden and it’s gross, to be a young woman with big boobs and deal with everyone’s issues with that. I feel so bad for your heroine. She might be interesting and I think you’re trying to tell us that she’s smart, but for some reason we keep talking about her boobs and how she’s accidentally running around in her underwear again! Fuck right off with that!
It felt like it was written by one of the creepy male teachers who used to openly ogle me in middle school. Gross! And this is coming from someone who has read the entire Dresden Files multiple times. I can put up with a lot of casual sexism and male authors who I wouldn’t trust with a Barbie doll. This book made me rage quit.
Several times during the reading I thought that this might feel less pervy as a show or a comic. I’m reading now that this was a novelization of a comic. Maybe that works, but if the author ever sees this — I am a woman who has to live in a very exaggerated, comic book heroine body. Your book is bringing up a lifetime of suppressed rage at being treated like a sex doll who might have other promising characteristics, but nobody knows or cares because we’re all so distracted by the boobs. It’s a burden and it’s gross, to be a young woman with big boobs and deal with everyone’s issues with that. I feel so bad for your heroine. She might be interesting and I think you’re trying to tell us that she’s smart, but for some reason we keep talking about her boobs and how she’s accidentally running around in her underwear again! Fuck right off with that!
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
January 2, 2022
– Shelved
