Jessica Ney
Autore di Denizens of the Dark Wood
Sull'Autore
Opere di Jessica Ney
Opere correlate
Middle-Earth Role-Playing: Complete System for Adventuring in J.R.R.Tolkien's World (1984) — Autore, alcune edizioni — 174 copie
Middle Earth Role Playing: Collector's Edition (MERP, 2nd Edition) (1993) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Ney-Grimm, Jessica Michele
- Altri nomi
- J.M. Ney-Grimm
J.M. Salsbury - Data di nascita
- 1960
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Virginia, USA
Maryland, USA - Istruzione
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville
- Attività lavorative
- author
editor
game designer
artist - Breve biografia
- J.M. Ney-Grimm lives with her husband and children in Virginia, just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She's learning about permaculture gardening and debunking popular myths about food. The rest of the time she reads Robin McKinley, Diana Wynne Jones, and Lois McMaster Bujold, plays boardgames like Settlers of Catan, rears her twins, and writes stories set in her troll-infested North-lands.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 36
- Opere correlate
- 11
- Utenti
- 248
- Popolarità
- #92,014
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 58
- Lingue
- 2
Sarvet's Wanderyar is set in the fictional gender-segregated mountain culture of the Hammarleeding, the woman-lodge called Kaunis. Sarvet chafes under the sweltering shelter of her mother. Paiam uses Sarvet's physical disability (a lame leg) to keep her from doing anything, even the things Sarvet knows she can do. However Sarvet holds a dear secret: she desperately wishes to experience the world on a Wanderyar, just like the young men of the father-lodges.
I want to start by saying Ney-Grimm's short story was a delight to read. The language was easy to consume and accessible for YA readers, which I believe are the intended audience. Even better, contrary to quite a few YA books I read when I was 13-16, Sarvet sounded and behaved like a teenage girl. I enjoyed the depth of world-building, particularly for how short the story was, and I'm always enthusiastic about exploring new gender norms. For me this was also a wonderful adventure because a major theme was that gendered norms can be changed, and the mindset required to change them.
SPOILERS: What stopped me from giving this 5/5 stars was the ableism inherent in Sarvet's tale. I realize it's a cliche of fantasy writing, but my heart sunk when the first half of the story was Sarvet working to be recognized by her mother and society at large while disabled, and the magical conclusion was that she stopped being disabled. It felt disingenuous that a major theme of this story was about how being a women shouldn't be a barrier to achieving your dreams, when being disabled was a much bigger barrier, presented within the story as completely unsolvable, (outside of magic intervention) and a completely acceptable barrier to stop Sarvet from doing things.… (altro)