#it's not a girlboss thing and it's also not a senselessly cruel and amoral viewpoint

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the magician's apprentice is my favorite by far of her shorter work but I think we should all be talking about floralinda too bc it really does explore one of muir's favorite themes which is women struggling to free themselves from the societies in which they are deeply entwined/making questionable choices while doing so

#and everyone on goodreads misunderstands the ending!! you either love or hate the ending but to be petty #none of those people are loving or hating it for the right reason!!!! #it's not a girlboss thing and it's also not a senselessly cruel and amoral viewpoint #she is saying something about the ways women interact with each other in a society that devalues them #there was one stylistic choice that i could not get behind which was the choice of having a narrator who. constantly dunks on the heroine #imo it was overkill and we didn't need it to understand what she was getting at so it just felt a bit irritating to me #like let me read i will decide if she's really that stupid. but i understand why she wrote it that way #it is just a personal preference #and i'm not a huge fairy tale person so there is that #i prefer horror and science fantasy in general but i think if u are into stuff that fits better in a strict fantasy genre you will like thi #it's objectively good. imo