S.L. Dove Cooper
Autore di A Promise Broken
Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) writes poetry as O'Connacht, Lynn E.
writes verse novels and poetry as Cooper, Dove
Writes novels as Cooper, S.L. Dove
Serie
Opere di S.L. Dove Cooper
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Cooper, S.L. Dove
- Altri nomi
- Cooper, Dove
O'Connacht, Lynn E. - Sesso
- nonbinary
- Breve biografia
- S.L. Dove Cooper / Dove Cooper (she/they) is a bi demi queer indie SFF author and independent researcher who is terrible at bios. Their fiction focuses on soft, intimate and character-driven SFF, often with asexual and/or aromantic characters at its heart. Exceptions exist. They write both novels (under S.L. Dove Cooper) and verse novels and poetry (under Dove Cooper).
Their research focuses on asexuality and aromanticism in SFF literature, with their first academic publication coming out later this year. Most of their research, however, is crowdfunded on Patreon.
S.L. Dove is multilingual and enjoys meeting up with friends, especially the writerly kind who are happy to quietly share a room and work together. They blog sporadically, but do their best to offer up a space for fellow authors to promote their work and boost it.
Dove has a BA and MA in English Literature and Creative Writing. They live in the wilds of continental Europe with a dog that is most definitely and emphatically not theirs. - Nota di disambiguazione
- writes poetry as O'Connacht, Lynn E.
writes verse novels and poetry as Cooper, Dove
Writes novels as Cooper, S.L. Dove
Utenti
Recensioni
Why I picked it up: I was expecting a cute fairy tale, but mostly I was really excited for a book about demisexuality. Asexuality (as in the umbrella term) in general is very rare in fiction, and demisexuality is even rarer.
The Princess Who Didn't Eat Cake is a fairytale written to explain demisexuality, and using cake as a metaphor for sex. The fairytale, however, is only about 40% of the ebook itself. Other contents include an essay by the author that explicitly explains demisexuality, with many popular culture examples - and there is also a series of recommendations with demisexual characters towards the end.
Overall, I am conflicted about The Princess Who Didn't Eat Cake, and by that I mean both the fairytale, and the entire book itself. As a fairytale, I did not find it very enjoyable - the cake metaphor was just painfully obvious, and in some places, downright uncomfortable when you replaced cake with sex (that is, the parts the princess is continuously pressured or even forced to try cake by various friends and family members). The essay about demisexuality also seemed unnecessarily lengthy to me at places, though that might be because I am already familiar with demisexuality - I am not sure what it would have been like to read that explanation if I've never heard of demisexuality before.
That being said, I still believe that this is an incredibly important book, and a recommended read for everyone who wants to understand demisexuality. Some parts of the metaphor/book also work for explaining asexuality, but the book makes it clear that the two are not exactly the same - I especially appreciated the part the princess felt like she had trouble explaining her feelings both to her cake-loving parents and her cake-rejecting friends.
I am sorry to say that The Princess Who Didn't Eat Cake is not a particulary great fairy tale - but that wasn't really the point anyway. The book (the tale, the essay and the recommendations together) do a great job of explaining demisexuality, and the recommendations on the end are especially appreciated.
Recommend: Yes. To everyone, basically. Despite my problems with it, I strongly believe this book is worth reading and an important take on demisexuality.
My rating: ★★★★☆… (altro)
The Princess Who Didn't Eat Cake is a fairytale written to explain demisexuality, and using cake as a metaphor for sex. The fairytale, however, is only about 40% of the ebook itself. Other contents include an essay by the author that explicitly explains demisexuality, with many popular culture examples - and there is also a series of recommendations with demisexual characters towards the end.
Overall, I am conflicted about The Princess Who Didn't Eat Cake, and by that I mean both the fairytale, and the entire book itself. As a fairytale, I did not find it very enjoyable - the cake metaphor was just painfully obvious, and in some places, downright uncomfortable when you replaced cake with sex (that is, the parts the princess is continuously pressured or even forced to try cake by various friends and family members). The essay about demisexuality also seemed unnecessarily lengthy to me at places, though that might be because I am already familiar with demisexuality - I am not sure what it would have been like to read that explanation if I've never heard of demisexuality before.
That being said, I still believe that this is an incredibly important book, and a recommended read for everyone who wants to understand demisexuality. Some parts of the metaphor/book also work for explaining asexuality, but the book makes it clear that the two are not exactly the same - I especially appreciated the part the princess felt like she had trouble explaining her feelings both to her cake-loving parents and her cake-rejecting friends.
I am sorry to say that The Princess Who Didn't Eat Cake is not a particulary great fairy tale - but that wasn't really the point anyway. The book (the tale, the essay and the recommendations together) do a great job of explaining demisexuality, and the recommendations on the end are especially appreciated.
Recommend: Yes. To everyone, basically. Despite my problems with it, I strongly believe this book is worth reading and an important take on demisexuality.
My rating: ★★★★☆… (altro)
I'm not sure how I felt about this story. On the one hand, the witch of the title and the setting seemed very real. On the other hand, it didn't seem to have an ending. I like ambiguous endings, but this didn't even give me much to wonder about. Perhaps O'Connacht will write a sequel.
I liked this new fairy tale from Lynn. The style rambles a little, but it's both conversational and epic at the same time, like someone telling a story to a young child.
I loved Kara. She's a fun character who I'd like to see more of in stories like this. Too often the witchy character is someone feared and hated, even though the story shows that they really shouldn't be. For once we have a witch who actually cares about the village surrounding her, and they know it, and are friendly with each other, even if they mostly leave each other alone.
My only problem with this story is that it felt a little unfinished to me. I didn't have the sense of closure about the changeling and the couple that I thought I would at the end. There were many questions raised throughout about the couple themselves - as though they had a mysterious identity - but I don't feel like they were fully answered.
I wish there was a little more to this story. What was there was set up well, and made me want to keep reading.… (altro)
I loved Kara. She's a fun character who I'd like to see more of in stories like this. Too often the witchy character is someone feared and hated, even though the story shows that they really shouldn't be. For once we have a witch who actually cares about the village surrounding her, and they know it, and are friendly with each other, even if they mostly leave each other alone.
My only problem with this story is that it felt a little unfinished to me. I didn't have the sense of closure about the changeling and the couple that I thought I would at the end. There were many questions raised throughout about the couple themselves - as though they had a mysterious identity - but I don't feel like they were fully answered.
I wish there was a little more to this story. What was there was set up well, and made me want to keep reading.… (altro)
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 18
- Utenti
- 76
- Popolarità
- #233,522
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 18
- Lingue
- 1
This is a story about a girl who fights her anxiety to be able to help her friend, and ends up gaining a different friend instead. Also, overbearingly strict parents, sheltered upbringing, class differences and sci-fi elements. Oh, and Priti is the best. I had trouble getting through this book sometimes because it was very introspective and slow and I just felt like there were too many little details, but ultimately I enjoyed the story.… (altro)