Talk:Blades of Light and Shadow, Book 1/@comment-27870373-20190403234335

PLEASE DON’T BE GENDERLOCKED

ROD, Wishful Thinking, SunKissed, Platinum, sooo many recent genderlocked books, and you can browse through comments here, on Twitter, and pretty much anywhere else and find them all receiving TONS of backlash for it—and rightly so in my opinion, but I’m not gonna get into that, because I’m here to talk about this one in particular.

Assuming we’re talking about “medieval-esque” fantasy, I absolutely LOVE that genre. And, the types of fantasy stories I love the MOST are fantasy stories that outright DEFY cliche themes.

That’s why I loved TC&TF. Whether you liked that series or not, you cannot deny the way that it defied so many stereotypical fantasy tropes. It starred a warrior queen, there were female knights EVERYWHERE, and even same sex LIs (It was the first Choices story I ever played, and when Annelyse said she wanted to kiss Kenna, I almost died of happy-shock).

My point being that, if this is indeed THAT type of fantasy story, I want this one to be cliche-defying too, and I want to be able to do that with a gender-of-choice MC.

Knowing PB, if they make this genderlocked, it’s just going to probably be something boring AF like a Princess MC doing stereotypical princess-y things. If I’m totally wrong and it ends up being like a female knight MC being a bada$$, then that’ll be a cool different direction, but I’d still prefer gender-of-choice.

With gender-of-choice books, I almost always play as male (unless I don’t like any of the options), and I almost always try to romance as many LIs as I can, regardless of gender (Unless they’re extremely annoying). I know this may sound selfish as hell to some, but for me to truly enjoy this book, it would really HAVE to be gender-of-choice.

I just want to play as a bisexual male knight/prince/wizard/what-freaking-ever MC damnit! DX

Anyway, sorry to rant to you all, I know no PB employee is likely ever gonna read this. I just wanted to get this off my chest.