#Not speculating on either author's actual views or mindset. Just what the storytelling reminds me of

[mumblingsage]

I'm about 100 pages from the end of Fool's Fate and it's doing the same thing Patricia Brigg's Hurog trilogy did earlier this year, namely remind me of myself back in the early 2000s when these books were written. By which I mean (not derogatory!) they both remind me of (not derogatory!!) how I didn't think I was allowed to just write two guys happily having sex with each other so instead the story resorts to some of the most astonishing subliminal, symbolic, plausibly deniable, either textually or subtextually homophobic (not actually derogatory!!!) and frequently very angsty events! One might even call them intricate rituals!