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bedlamsbard ([personal profile] bedlamsbard) wrote2016-10-31 12:07 am

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I…I didn’t think you could write a retelling of the Thousand and One Nights and actively remove the storytelling aspect as being an important part of the story, but apparently you can and it really bothers me, because even though this isn’t my favorite fairy tale that part – the power of stories, the power of being a woman who tells stories, the power of fantasy – is really, really important to me. And it’s not…totally removed, it’s still there in a way, but not in the story-telling sort of way. And its removal from the story is lampshaded in a way that’s kind of actively unsettling to me.

Like, I’m sure other people who’ve read this book will disagree with me, but I didn’t even realize I was attached to it until it was gone.

(The book is A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston, and between this and the fact that I was pretty meh on Ahsoka (thoughts coming later when I reach that point in The Schedule), I think I'm not going to search out any more of her books unless she writes another Star Wars novel.)

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