Derek Landy

While Valkyrie is off trying to recover her sister's lost soul, it is up to Omen Darkly to be the hero and save thousands of innocent people.

Bedlam

for a book in a series that i started reading when i was the target age range for it, i was having a pretty good time. i was vibing with the characters and the plot and all that and then somewhere around 25% or 30% i got hit with a paragraph about sorcerers "turning bisexual" and it ruined the mood for the rest of the book. like that's not how sexuality works... even if these people live to be hundreds of years old they're not going to wake up on their 200th birthday or whatever and decide they're now attracted to people of different genders. 

and then the characters have such strange reactions to valkryie being bisexual. fletcher asks if he "turned her gay" implying that he was that shitty of a boyfriend???? which is a really bad thing to say. why is that his first reaction???? near the end of the book when valkryie comes out to her parents by telling them she has a girlfriend one of the first things her dad says to her is something along the lines of how he wished she was a lesbian but this is the second best thing. ?????? why would a father say that to his daughter??? these are among the most ignorant and shittiest things to say when someone comes out to you.

and on a slightly unrelated note, shipping valkryie and skulduggery together is super weird bc he's like. 600 and she's 25? 26? and also he was her mentor from when she was 12? 13? and they honestly still kind of have the mentor/mentee dynamic.

Bedlam

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