Assessment

  1. I feel like I just read a fetish story, especially with her ‘afterwards’. The story, was fine on its self till the author started to explain their curiosity. It’s off setting and a bit... much. In all honesty. Reading her blurt after the story, it really sounds more like a fantasy to her rather than a way to make an interesting story. In short, I found this disturbing, not because of the context but simply for reading material that is most likely someone’s personal fantasies. 
  2. The elements of the story were rather easy, a coming of age, with syfy structure with it. She chose to also give the creatures human like personalities, most likely simply out of preference. But to play along like this isn’t a fetish story, it was “to show that the aliens tried their best to relate to the humans to comfort them in being hosts. From birth till.... birth?” Still pretty sure the author is just into male pregnancies with young(er) people. She grosses me out. 
  3. I would keep it as a story, and scrap the entire idea. Keep the alien. Keep the humans. Get rid of the feelings between humans and the creatures. Make it less of a fetish story and actually have conflict rather than creepy luring of young(er) people. Also. Scrap the “afterwards” part. That really set me off. She completely denies that taking eggs into you from a paracetic creature is slavery. To me. This resembles so much of how Filipinos are human trafficked LEGALLY today, and they say it’s not slavery. 

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