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And now we reach the end of the book and the world’s grossest money-quote: Tirla will be ready to marry Sascha at SIXTEEN because she’s Middle Eastern and they “ripen” faster. And then she can have kids for him, to breed more talents! EXCUSE ME WHILE I VOMIT
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THUS ENDS PEGASUS IN FLIGHT, which I only skimmed this evening and which has nonetheless left me feeling nauseated. AUGH.
What's maddening is I can still see the shape of why I loved this book as a kid! Tirla and Peter's sections are so great, and Tirla is amazing as a character! She gets to be hardbitten and awesome! The intertwining plots are compelling, even! But it's all founded on SO MUCH YIKES
You could so, so easily rewrite this book to not suck! The bare bones of the plot and the emotional beats still work - work WAY FUCKING BETTER, IN FACT - if you take out the skeevy-as-fuck grooming and racism! AND YET.
Jumping back on my own thread to say that, as I was tweeting this, multiple people thought I was talking about another McCaffrey book with a similar child/adult romance - specifically, Damia, which belongs to a sequel series called The Tower and the Hive.
I do not currently have a copy of Damia, but if I were to purchase a secondhand one for the purposes of doing a skim and pointing out the skeevness as I did with Pegasus, would people be interested?
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