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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2024-09-15 09:10 am

Hôtel Transylvania (Saint-Germain, volume 1) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro




Poor Madelaine de Montalia! The only person between her and Clotaire de Saint Sebastien's ruthless cult of Satanists is the charming Le Comte de Saint-Germain... vampire!

Hôtel Transylvania (Saint-Germain, volume 1) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

[personal profile] ba_munronoe 2024-09-16 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
The "pagans good, Christians bad" meme in fantasy is annoying, and kinda disrespectful of pre-Christian peoples, who have the right to be just as awful as anyone else. Sort of a form of chronological Orientalism.
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[personal profile] kgbooklog 2024-09-16 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
What annoys me these days is explicit Christianity in high magic secondary worlds. Storm-goddess avatars should not be quoting Psalms, not even under duress.
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[personal profile] dragoness_e 2024-09-16 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yarbro avoided that one in the St. Germain stories. Almost everywhere was shown to be stunningly intolerant of strangers, no matter what their religion.