So I saw all your posts about Kier//sten wh//and I realized I had one of her books (The Guinevere Deception) and now I’m debating if I should read it or not to see if it’s bad or not. And also WHY did she think a genderswapped Vlad The Impaler book would be a good idea??
On your second question, the answer is clueless SJW pushing her own woke & edgy & radfem agenda onto a random culture in order to appeal to the equally clueless woke radfem masses. I am sorry, but this is the truth. What angered me and the rest of the Romanian Tumblr is that interview where she admitted to not having any idea about Transylvania being a real thing until she was in college (barring the fact that Vlad The Impaler was the ruler of Wallachia, not Transylvania). Again, I need to apologise to all awesome understanding Americans and Westerners for what I'm saying, but the entire interview and her persona was the embodiment of rude ignorant American SJW who loves implying or straightly admitting to having the moral high ground because he slaps whatever "woke" modern socio-political commentaries onto whatever piece of fiction or, worse, a real culture.
The idea of a genderbent Vlad The Impaler isn't even a bad one, but it would have ended up hundreds of times better had 1). It been written by a Romanian and a Romanian who really knows history — because research doesn't mean just the History classes we, the Romanians, had in school 2). A person of any other nationality who knows history and did Actual Research, not a bored glance on a Wikipedia page.
For your first question, it really isn't my place to tell you or anyone what to read, so — and give it a try, really! Alas, Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of my favourite books ever and I am well aware of all the inaccuracies, but I read and loved it for the plot and the ominous atmosphere and the writing etc. Moreover, I am not that knowledgeable of the Arthurian mythology, so I can't talk about the limit beyond which a mildly inaccurate retelling becomes a blatant disrespect of a culture, and I have no idea what that book is about, so I don't know what to say beside give it a try. I can tell, however, that And I Darken was not a mildly inaccurate retelling, but a blatant disrespect towards our history.
