I've read Yiddish Policeman's Union, and I'm not sure why that was stocked as mainstream except that maybe someone thought it was "too good" to be SF/F. It was a pretty good book, though really, really bleak. About half way through I was like, "IS ANYTHING EVER HAPPY IN THIS WORLD EVER?" Good, but not something to read if your mood is really down.
they do better at getting to the heart of WEIRD, rather than being just supernatural mysteries in leather and stilettos.
Yeah, that's my other complaint. Not only is it the same white, able, cis/straight woman, but it's not even really interesting or original. It's all, like you said. Leather and stilettos and I just want to know who thinks that you should be wearing stilettos when fighting evil. OR EVER. I'm just so over the whole let's talk about our shoes while fighting vampires thing I cannot EVEN EXPRESS IT IN WORDS.
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they do better at getting to the heart of WEIRD, rather than being just supernatural mysteries in leather and stilettos.
Yeah, that's my other complaint. Not only is it the same white, able, cis/straight woman, but it's not even really interesting or original. It's all, like you said. Leather and stilettos and I just want to know who thinks that you should be wearing stilettos when fighting evil. OR EVER. I'm just so over the whole let's talk about our shoes while fighting vampires thing I cannot EVEN EXPRESS IT IN WORDS.