I'm very ambivalent about Ward. Yes, the BDB is like crack and doesn't pretend to be high art, so why are people getting all into an uproar about her work? But then I think there are some things to discuss:
1. marketing and series arcs -- should a series that is tailing into Urban Fantasy be marketed as a genre romance?
2. cultural appropriation and B/W -- widely discussed already, but the use of the word "race" and "protect the race" in LEn made me very uncomfortable
3. the stereotyping of gender roles in the books, females as broodmares (more or less), and the lack of strong female characters in the series
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Re: Ward
Date: 2008-06-09 04:02 pm (UTC)1. marketing and series arcs -- should a series that is tailing into Urban Fantasy be marketed as a genre romance?
2. cultural appropriation and B/W -- widely discussed already, but the use of the word "race" and "protect the race" in LEn made me very uncomfortable
3. the stereotyping of gender roles in the books, females as broodmares (more or less), and the lack of strong female characters in the series
4. homoeroticism in mainstream genre romance