Review of 'The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All: Revised and Expanded (The Oldest Living Vampire Saga Book 1)' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
This is generally a quick and fun read. Marked as three stars for two reasons:
1. The plot is kind of… squishy? The inciting incident feels like it comes quite late, and generally it feels more like a character study than a plot. This isn’t necessarily bad! But… it slowed the story down.
2. Lines like:
“But it is much circumscribed now by your phallus-mutilating, Hell-condemning desert god.”
“I think our sexual practices would probably scandalize you modern people, with your tyrannical, pleasure-hating desert god and your unnatural embarrassment of your genitals.”
“Jews worship an angry Sky God while Christians worship a God who is Love and Kindness!” is an antisemitic trope, so these lines made me uncomfortable as a Jewish woman.
That said, I did appreciate that the author’s Cro Magnon society was egalitarian and sexually liberated. I feel like the retrogressive gender politics cave people trope is kind …
This is generally a quick and fun read. Marked as three stars for two reasons:
1. The plot is kind of… squishy? The inciting incident feels like it comes quite late, and generally it feels more like a character study than a plot. This isn’t necessarily bad! But… it slowed the story down.
2. Lines like:
“But it is much circumscribed now by your phallus-mutilating, Hell-condemning desert god.”
“I think our sexual practices would probably scandalize you modern people, with your tyrannical, pleasure-hating desert god and your unnatural embarrassment of your genitals.”
“Jews worship an angry Sky God while Christians worship a God who is Love and Kindness!” is an antisemitic trope, so these lines made me uncomfortable as a Jewish woman.
That said, I did appreciate that the author’s Cro Magnon society was egalitarian and sexually liberated. I feel like the retrogressive gender politics cave people trope is kind of a sexist fantasy about Why Women Need Men (ugh). I mean, I have no problems with a bi poly utopia, bring it!
So… mostly fun, but not perfect.