Burn for Me sounds awesome. I may have to check it out. Magic Bites did not work for me at all. Essentially because to me it read like the two paragraphs before you mention it in this post. Plus the descriptions of the other women all felt very male gazey. It was a great setting, though. Maybe I should try it again if I get the flu.
Yeah, Magic Bites def has the Bechdel problem. Kate spends a lot of time being not like other girls, which is like, sure fine, but other girls aren't doing it wrong either. There's some of that in Burn for Me, not gonna lie, but the familial stuff was good.
That seems to be the way of it. Much as I loved the Mercy Thompson books, the first few are entirely devoid of cool women other than Mercy. She does start making female friends eventually, and even goes so far as to have a strained yet functional relationship with her husband's ex. (That after some shenanigans of course.)
Usually in contemporary romance, the heroine at least has a wing girl or women she gets cocktails with. I don't quite understand why PNR goes in for this sole worthwhile woman routine. Maybe it's the DNA of the detective novel , which pretty much never depicts female comaraderie.
Usually in contemporary romance, the heroine at least has a wing girl or women she gets cocktails with. I don't quite understand why PNR goes in for this sole worthwhile woman routine. Maybe it's the DNA of the detective novel , which pretty much never depicts female comaraderie.