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⌈ Secret Post #4716 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

This is why I like Rod Duncan.

He's so ridiculously good at writing women who don't fall into any of those tedious, played-out niches and cliches. His main character (a woman, Elizabeth) just feels like ... a character, not a bundle of ticked boxes. She's capable, but not overly so. She's not an innocent virgin, or a whore. I don't get the idea she's either stunningly good looking, or ugly. There's no awkward sex scenes, there's no weird descriptions of body parts doing normal things that we just wouldn't notice or are so normal as to not be likely to be described.

She's just ... nicely written.

And after reading so many women written badly, often by women themselves, the fact that a man writes a heroine so well makes me happy.

[(Anonymous)]

And after reading so many women written badly, often by women themselves, the fact that a man writes a heroine so well makes me happy.

Yeah, I feel like a lot of people tend to willfully overlook the fact that some of the worst offenders in this regard are female authors. Their heroines are beautiful and perfect and amazing and can do no wrong and all of the men love them even though there is no real reason for that to be so - for example, Bella from Twilight. Stephenie Meyer being a woman didn't make Bella NOT a terrible female character.

[(Anonymous)]

Oooh, someone else who has read him! I originally found that series looking for books set in my city (Leicester), but it turns out he is a friend of a friend as well.

Although I do like Elizabeth as a character, and also the other female character (who's name currently escapes me!), I was less taken with where the plot when in the latest book. It felt like he wanted to write about something else, but felt obliged to shoehorn Elizabeth in.