A review by eringoodygood
The Nightmare Charade by Mindee Arnett

3.0

So here's the deal. This is a nice wrap up for the series. And it was a good book. But I'm docking it for blatant straight-washing and sexism. It just bothered me so much that they said, "Oh well there could have been female guard for him to seduce!" WOW. Like a male couldn't seduce a male guard and gay men don't exist. Like women can't be prison guards. I run into sexism all the time but this just made me SO UPSET. The author's mean Christian bias was showing, and I figured it out when she thanks "God and his Son" every acknowledgement in the first line. And aside from the above mentioned, she also made light references to waiting for marriage in relationships and life after death that stuck out in the wrong ways after the blatant gay people don't exist message.

POINT BEING: in a fantasy world, if you can't even imagine gay people don't exist, how interesting can your world actually be? Not interesting enough, really.

Yes this was a rant but fiction and fantasy should NOT be exclusive in these ways.