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The Memory of Souls
Finished
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
Finished
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The Cerulean Queen
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Victories Greater Than Death
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Gideon the Ninth
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The Echo Wife
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A Broken Queen
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House of X/Powers of X
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The Hunting Party
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Pet
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Caught
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Moonflower Murders
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I really enjoy Horowitz’s writing, and the Susan Ryeland series especially with its book-inside-a-book conceit. But I’m growing more uncomfortable with his relationship to homosexuality. He made Hawthorne, his meta detective written as nonfiction with Horowitz as the first-person narrator, a homophobe, and literally in his book said “I would not have chosen to write a character like this” but uh, he did. And with Alan Conway, whose sexuality is prominent through two books, we mostly get ugly caricatures as well.
The eventual villain of this book turns out to be a former “rent boy,” who is apparently not actually gay but performed gay sex for money and is just disdainful of basically everyone around him. It looks like Horowitz once played devil’s advocate in a TV discussion, against gay marriage, despite purportedly not actually objecting to gay marriage himself. It’s not absolutely damning, but also, like, the devil doesn’t need an advocate. So it kind of fits this bill, where I don’t think he would see himself as homophobic but he’s certainly not doing himself or the LGBTQ community any favors.I feel like I missed an obvious clue (in retrospect) to JKR’s transphobia in the early Cormoran Strike books, and I’m worried I’ll be doing the same here if I continue reading these. I don’t know, though. We’ll see I guess.
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Black Sun
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The Queen of Raiders
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One by One
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