A charming soul has left a comment on my Instagram saying they like everything about my books except the "feministic viewpoints and evolution undertones." And I...what?
This was my precise thought! I apologize for you having to encounter someone who does not have good reading comprehension today.
I hope that person one day finds someone who writes what they want to enjoy in a novel.
"Evolutionist"? That's like calling an astrophysicist "relativist". It's not a belief system, it's reality. Life evolves, relativity applies in Einsteinian space. Them's just facts.
The wonderful thought put into the murdermaids* (perfect, plausible, absorbed with nary a ripple that would jar a reader out of the book and into a 'Hang on, that's not... right...') was apparently too subtle, along with every other book/novella/short story?
*at my forefront due to recent rereads
Wait, the Oberon-Maeve-Titania thing isn’t a metaphor for the holy trinity and a refutation of the theory of evolution by saying all life was created by that trinity?
I don't know what they were looking at to then have to look underneath to find these themes. They're not undertones, they're tones.
If they say they like your writing except for those things, they don't like your writing. They like the version of your writing in their heads.
Hope you don't feel too insulted - they're clearly lacking in understanding so can't be expected to recognise all the strands of your work that could be described as general knowledge!
