It's like this 'point' is being missed by a LOT of reviewers of this book. Some people are just... not particularly insightful.
Even when you underline the point to them, put it in Capital letters, and scream it. (I've had a frustrating couple of weeks at work. I'm starting to wonder about people's reading comprehension skills.)
Anyhow..no, after years on the internet, I've discovered there are quite a few people who are metaphor blind. They really wouldn't recognize a metaphor if it came up and bit them. You have to spell it out for them, and even then...Also subtext? Completely lost on them. Discovered that with Buffy viewers and ahem, some television critics.
One of the Good Reads reviewers blew my mind when she complained about the fairy tales that Hoyt puts in front of each chapter - stating: "why are they there? Does anyone even read them?" [Ah, yes, metaphor.]
also think there's a certain appeal for some that's akin to emo teens (read an emo teen's fanfic and sometimes the persecution complex oozes from the page). Some people LIKE the endlessly saintly martyred heroine, it scratches an emotional itch (and some dislike ones that act...well... a lot like the heroes. And, yeah, I think there's sexism in heroines being cut less slack than heroes)
Hee, Hoyt appears to be trying to deconstruct the saintly martyr trope in the first three books of her Maiden Lane series. Have mixed feelings about it so far.
Anyhow..I agree.
They do like the EMO teens - which is rather popular in the New Adult/YA Romance genre (not the paranormal one) - go read the reviews to Jamie Acquirre's Beautiful Disaster (don't read the book - it's ghastly, I did, and hated it). But it's a perfect example of "emo" teen romance. They are extremely popular on Good Reads for some reason.
It's not my trope. So probably shouldn't critiqued the books as negatively as I have - because hello, it's just not my trope. I'm not a fan of the persecuted heroine.
[Confession? I never made it through Dauphne Du Maurier's Rebecca - I could not stand either character. Both drove me bonkers. Oddly, the Hitchcock movie didn't bug me as much...not sure why. Maybe because Hitchcock toned some of that down? Had similar issues with Gone with the Wind - I could not stand Scarlett O'Hara - which may explain my dislike of Lady Mary in Dowton Abbey - they are in some respects similar characters.]
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Date: 2014-03-05 11:42 pm (UTC)Even when you underline the point to them, put it in Capital letters, and scream it. (I've had a frustrating couple of weeks at work. I'm starting to wonder about people's reading comprehension skills.)
Anyhow..no, after years on the internet, I've discovered there are quite a few people who are metaphor blind. They really wouldn't recognize a metaphor if it came up and bit them. You have to spell it out for them, and even then...Also subtext? Completely lost on them. Discovered that with Buffy viewers and ahem, some television critics.
One of the Good Reads reviewers blew my mind when she complained about the fairy tales that Hoyt puts in front of each chapter - stating: "why are they there? Does anyone even read them?" [Ah, yes, metaphor.]
also think there's a certain appeal for some that's akin to emo teens (read an emo teen's fanfic and sometimes the persecution complex oozes from the page). Some people LIKE the endlessly saintly martyred heroine, it scratches an emotional itch (and some dislike ones that act...well... a lot like the heroes. And, yeah, I think there's sexism in heroines being cut less slack than heroes)
Hee, Hoyt appears to be trying to deconstruct the saintly martyr trope in the first three books of her Maiden Lane series. Have mixed feelings about it so far.
Anyhow..I agree.
They do like the EMO teens - which is rather popular in the New Adult/YA Romance genre (not the paranormal one) - go read the reviews to Jamie Acquirre's Beautiful Disaster (don't read the book - it's ghastly, I did, and hated it). But it's a perfect example of "emo" teen romance. They are extremely popular on Good Reads for some reason.
It's not my trope. So probably shouldn't critiqued the books as negatively as I have - because hello, it's just not my trope. I'm not a fan of the persecuted heroine.
[Confession? I never made it through Dauphne Du Maurier's Rebecca - I could not stand either character. Both drove me bonkers. Oddly, the Hitchcock movie didn't bug me as much...not sure why. Maybe because Hitchcock toned some of that down? Had similar issues with Gone with the Wind - I could not stand Scarlett O'Hara - which may explain my dislike of Lady Mary in Dowton Abbey - they are in some respects similar characters.]