I'm only talking about the reasons Ellis gave for the apology in her video.) Like most of Ellis' video essays, it was well-constructed and had a definite thesis: pop culture fandoms have a tendency to ferociously hate things that teen girls and women love, and therefore, it was worthwhile to reexamine the Twilight series to find legitimate criticisms of it, versus just hating it with a broad stroke because of sparkly vampires. (Note: Misogyny is not the only reason Meyer ever received backlash, and there are many valid criticisms of her books, particularly where racism is concerned. I cannot stand to read about these two characters or their terrible relationship any longer, and it is for this reason that I don't think I'll make it to the third book, whenever it comes out.įour years ago, Lindsay Ellis published a video titled "Dear Stephenie Meyer", in which she apologizes to said author of the Twilight series for the years of misogynistic backlash she faced for writing bad vampire romance novels. So, what were the issues? To put it succinctly: Cora Sabino and Ampersand are the primary issues.
Instead, it was almost relief, a thank god that is finally over with. And when I finished, it wasn't with the sense of warm satisfaction that comes with reading a good book, or a sense of sadness now that an excellent one had concluded. If I could give it a 2.5 rating instead of a 3, I would, because while I wasn't compelled to drop it, I did have to force myself to keep going back to it, usually when I absolutely ran out of other things to do. But while I didn't hate the book, I also struggle to say that I liked it. Particularly since I checked this book out from a library instead of purchasing it, I had no financial loss at risk to push me to keep reading.
As you can tell by looking at my book history, there are several books that I dropped because I could not push myself to keep reading them. If I hated this book, I would not have finished it. Let me be clear, upfront: I did not hate this book. This is a balance that the book struggles with. As much of a character-driven story as the first, Truth of the Divine works to balance the inner turmoil of its protagonist Cora with the political situation surrounding the aliens in the United States. Additionally, Divine introduces a second point-of-view character in the form of Kaveh Mazandarani, a reporter who stumbles upon his own alien companion Nikoa by virtue of pure circumstance. Divine picks up shortly after where the first book, Axiom's End, left off, following human Cora and alien Ampersand as they navigate not only their newfound bond, but also the question of alien personhood on Earth now that the secret of First Contact has been blown out of the water.
Truth of the Divine is the second book in what is now known as the Noumena trilogy by Lindsay Ellis.
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