my kingdom for literary critics to stop conflating “I personally dislike the fundamentals of X genre and so have neither read nor desired to read widely in it” with “therefore the whole genre is badly-written by default, because obviously if the writing was good I WOULD like it”
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Definitely! Though sometimes it's better for everyone if people push one thing at a time, even if that means acknowledging that the comfort zone might be "books by white cis authors" in addition to "urban and epic fantasy, and a little space opera."
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And I don't know if reviews are the place to explore your own boundary pushing, especially if they're something more elevated than pushing stars on Amazon. Isn't the point of a review to have someone well-infirned discuss the work?
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