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Title: Jackal of the Mind DNF@2%
Series: Tales of Wyverna #2
Author: Madolyn Rogers
Rating: 1 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 6/287
Words: 2/106K
Sexuality and sexual preferences are important enough that I refuse to allow them to be perverted and to pass it off as “well, it’s only a piece of fiction”.
I was disappointed but it happens enough now that I think I’m to the point where I can just shrug it off and dnf the book without much regret. Ahhh well, on to another book and another author.
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Yikes! I’m not sure I can identify with either of the figures in the cover. Maybe that little dragon in the background. Who is this aimed at?
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This is aimed at fantasy fans. I enjoyed the first book quite a bit and was looking forward to this. But since homosexuality is one of the things I dnf over, well, I guess it was better to end it quickly than 3/4 of the way through
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2%? That’s not much of an effort.
Do the sexual preferences have to do with the buxom sorceress and the big bad wolf?
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No, I don’t think whoever the chick is had even been introduced yet.
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Is it like that jackals that you find in the windmills of your mind?
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Windmills are all gone. When I read Don Quixote a while back he knocked them all down.
But I think I have lions instead of jackals. Nothing but the best in my mind 😀
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jackals doesn’t even rhyme with circles!
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Wut? I’m totally lost now….
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It’s a song Booky, called Windmills of your mind. It was from a film, The Thomas Crown Affair and sung by Noel Harriison, son of Rex.
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Ahhh, that explains it all. Songs. The bane of my social life.
But someday when I am rich, I will own ALL the songs and I will outlaw them. Just to simplify life 😉
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Oh that’s sad.
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Yeah, don’t worry. It probably won’t happen before next year anyway. I’m not rich yet!
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I’m thinking the wolf is her pet.
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I would bet money that you are correct 🙂
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The cover alone tells us everything we need to know about this book…
I’m not troubled by different representations of sexuality, but I’m wary of books that need scantily clad people on the cover to lure readers in.
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I was kind of surprised by the cover too, considering this was written by a woman and I “think” it was independently published?
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When it happens that early into the book, you know it ain’t a good sign hahaha
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Exactly. It felt extremely checklist’y
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