d, or in a place that magically forgets this is a huge era of civil rights? This is what's wrong with today's feminism (and I'm a feminist): Lack of intersectionality.

Did an editor think we aren't fully wanting an intersectional and rich story here? Is it the author's whiteness and lack of scope and breadth showing through? I applaud her creativity, but a lack of ability to tell what's truly going on, and its a navel-gazing lack of peripheral vision here.

If this is turned into a movie, it would be incredible if they cast a non-white actress as the main lead, as there's so much nuance and amazing creative ways to interpret Bertha, Marla, Alex and the Green family struggles and heritage. Bring in more diversity, it's 2022 for god sakes.30:T4f2,I was a big fan of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, and was looking forward to this one. It's different in a lot of ways from TGWDTM, but this novel has a similar charm and style, which drew me in. I was not disappointed.

Set in the 1950s, in an alternate history, this could have easily been set in 2023. So much is going on through the pages of this book.

Women dragoning, morphing into all their glorious power, are pushing through the confining limitations imposed by men and their patriarchal societal structures. The story is great fun, though a little long in the tooth in places (lol). 4.5 stars. Wonderful ending and engaging characters.

"...once upon a time, humanity worshipped the Divine Feminine, and that in that time all of humanity was in the thrall of her power and strength, both procreative and destructive, both fecund and barren, both joy and terror, all at once."
"You have ...gentlemen...hopes of conquest--in an attempt to rein in this feminine largeness, to shrink it down and force it to acquiesce to your paternal control, to allow our culture to forget that any of this dragon business ever happened. This, my friends, is an impossibility. "
"Personally, I think it's rather marvelous. "
pp301-302

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