Ooh, thanks for the recommendations! I haven’t read any of those yet.
I love scifi but have always struggled as some, especially some of the classic scifi authors, seem to write women pretty strangely.
Just takes me out of it. My favorite scifi book recently has been Moonbound (not romance, just a great book IMO).
My current scifi/romance read is The Veridian Priestess. A little explicit, but it gives dune/chronicles of riddick vibes with a heavy space religion plot. For me it’s also a local author which is always cool. I also have heard really good things about “Of Monsters and Mainframes”.
But yea, kinda sucks how some people view it. As a guy I’ve gotten a few sideyes from other men, but I’ve also had the occasional guy who also likes it. Bit of a mixed bag.
Honestly I have more of a complex over not reading ‘proper literature’, but I decided a while back that it’s better to read for fun than to not read at all.
Edit: While we’re talking about shitty books, behold the worst book I’ve ever read 3/4’s of:
He Who Fights With Monsters.
Had a friend swear up and down it was incredible, ended up sending him a mini dissertation on how unbelievably bad it was. Didn’t realize it started as a Wattpad story when I read it. 😬
I will say, mixing in some books with more depth outside the romance genre every few books can be good for you and very enjoyable. Just like something like a Hugo winner (A Memory Called Empire was great) or something widely acclaimed (I’ll always recommend Tamsyn Muir and Brandon Sanderson) or even a classic (LeGuinn is awesome).
Yeah the classic sci fi authors absolutely wrote women terribly, I’m dreading starting Dune despite knowing I’ll like it for that reason.
You’re welcome for the recs! Jessie Mihalik is one of my favorite authors now, I loved the Consortium Rebellion trilogy. I picked up Of Monsters and Mayhem at the last local book crawl, I may have to read it sooner now!
Classic scifi can be hit or miss. I actually haven’t read much of the classic authors, although I have some in my collection to get through eventually. I read Stowaway to Mars by John Wyndham as a blind book date and it wasn’t a bad book, but man the woman was very very poorly written.
It sucks you get a side eye for reading books you enjoy. I don’t think anyone should be shamed for reading anything. Even if it’s a genre I don’t like, I still ask questions when someone does enjoy something. One of my colleagues is a big biography reader, which I am most certainly not, but I still enjoy chatting about who she is reading about and she likes hearing about my dorky scifi books lol
I’m going to add all your books to my library list! Thanks again!
Ooh, thanks for the recommendations! I haven’t read any of those yet.
I love scifi but have always struggled as some, especially some of the classic scifi authors, seem to write women pretty strangely. Just takes me out of it. My favorite scifi book recently has been Moonbound (not romance, just a great book IMO).
My current scifi/romance read is The Veridian Priestess. A little explicit, but it gives dune/chronicles of riddick vibes with a heavy space religion plot. For me it’s also a local author which is always cool. I also have heard really good things about “Of Monsters and Mainframes”. But yea, kinda sucks how some people view it. As a guy I’ve gotten a few sideyes from other men, but I’ve also had the occasional guy who also likes it. Bit of a mixed bag.
Honestly I have more of a complex over not reading ‘proper literature’, but I decided a while back that it’s better to read for fun than to not read at all.
Edit: While we’re talking about shitty books, behold the worst book I’ve ever read 3/4’s of: He Who Fights With Monsters.
Had a friend swear up and down it was incredible, ended up sending him a mini dissertation on how unbelievably bad it was. Didn’t realize it started as a Wattpad story when I read it. 😬
I will say, mixing in some books with more depth outside the romance genre every few books can be good for you and very enjoyable. Just like something like a Hugo winner (A Memory Called Empire was great) or something widely acclaimed (I’ll always recommend Tamsyn Muir and Brandon Sanderson) or even a classic (LeGuinn is awesome).
Yeah the classic sci fi authors absolutely wrote women terribly, I’m dreading starting Dune despite knowing I’ll like it for that reason.
That said, yeah reading at all is better than not
You’re welcome for the recs! Jessie Mihalik is one of my favorite authors now, I loved the Consortium Rebellion trilogy. I picked up Of Monsters and Mayhem at the last local book crawl, I may have to read it sooner now!
Classic scifi can be hit or miss. I actually haven’t read much of the classic authors, although I have some in my collection to get through eventually. I read Stowaway to Mars by John Wyndham as a blind book date and it wasn’t a bad book, but man the woman was very very poorly written.
It sucks you get a side eye for reading books you enjoy. I don’t think anyone should be shamed for reading anything. Even if it’s a genre I don’t like, I still ask questions when someone does enjoy something. One of my colleagues is a big biography reader, which I am most certainly not, but I still enjoy chatting about who she is reading about and she likes hearing about my dorky scifi books lol
I’m going to add all your books to my library list! Thanks again!