Das große Spiel

dnf at 57%

okay i will keep this short: the book has already one subplot that made me go huh. yep it's the fact that suddenly christians are the ones being persecuted in this undefined setting - in a very similar manner to how the jews were persecuted in germany in the 1930s. there are in general way too many similarities to the weimar republic/the third reich. what is even going on??? and why would you put christians in that place instead? it just feels like the author picked a real life event that affected so many people and decided you know what i want this for my historical fantasy novel but lemme just ignore that the people who actually suffered were jewish people. it feels gross to me and unnecessary. i dont know if there is a point to it in the end but i am also tired of authors using the shoa as “inspiration” like this.

now, since i was starting to become a bit skeptical of what was going on in this book i also decided to look up the ending and boy oh boy, paired with the fact that the author has liked transphobic tweets in the past that confirmed that she is a terf... this is not something that i want to read. no thank you. goodbye, this isnt worth my time or my nerves