fulano's Reviews > Behemoth

Rep: PoC characters in background.

TW/CW:
grief, death, violence, sexism, sweet Polly Oliver trope, girl hate.

This was still good like the first book, but I had trouble with the female protagonist’s thoughts. She’s a bit standoffish towards another girl because she sees her as sort of competition towards the male character’s affection. It’s not that bad, she never voices her feelings or hurts that girl at all, but I could’ve done without that. I’m grateful it didn’t actually last long, but another thing is her love for the male MC throughout the book being a bit unusual. I think if it had been written differently, and if those feelings were shown to be reciprocated in any way, I might’ve been on board. It’s just personal preference, though I do wonder if it has anything to do with the author being male and thinking female characters pine more about love. I don’t actually hate any of this, it just makes me question. This is an older title, and you could also say that the character is young and is allowed to feel this way. Either way, I will finish the series and hope the romantic angle is something I could get on board with.

p.s: this quote made me laugh:

“Alek noticed again how brown her eyes were, and how beautiful she was. What an idiot he’d been to mistake her for a man.”
Poor Deryn lol. 😂