Just about every single significant woman in the main character’s life dies to push him on his little story. This is the phenomenon of a female character dying purely for the purpose of furthering a male character’s storyline. Jay Kristoff seems to looooove a good fridging. On specifics, here are a collection of the ways in which this book managed to be the single most misogynist piece of writing I’ve ever had the misfortune to experience: Orange tabs: Slightly more subjective, these mark anything in the book that made me roll my eyes and think “yeah, this was definitely written by a man.” These include descriptions of women that are very clearly from and for the male gaze, questionable interactions with female anatomy, cringe dialogue or actions from female characters meant to appeal to the male gaze.you get the deal.

as well as anything said for the express purpose of mocking or shaming a woman for simply being a woman. This includes calling women b*tch, wh*re, c*nt, etc. Yellow tabs: Anything explicitly and blatantly derogatory to female characters. The easiest way to show how blatant it might be to show how I decided to tab this book… Jay Kristoff seems to be going out of his way to remind me why I prefer fantasy written by women, because my god this book is an exhausting experience to read if you happen to be feminine.

It is built into every single page of this 700+ page tome, so much so that I wouldn't even be able to give you a complete picture without writing a goddamn dissertation on it. So yes, we are starting off with the misogyny. This is an absolute dumpster fire of a book and I’m going to do my best to articulate why in a concise and organized way.but honestly the book made me so angry that I might go off the rails.įirst of all I’m gonna separate the problems I have with this book into four sections:Īnd lastly, the actual writing style/story A story of legendary battles and forbidden love, of faith lost and friendships won, of the Wars of the Blood and the Forever King and the quest for humanity’s last remaining hope:įromauthor Jay Kristoff comes Empire of the Vampire, the first illustrated volume of an astonishing new dark fantasy saga.ġ.25 stars and the. Imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story. But even the Silver Order could not stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains. Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise.

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