I haven't read it yet, but like yourself the reviews made me fascinated to get to it. Unlike yourself, I had the classic American experience of having the book assigned in school. Unlike most Americans, my English teacher used it as an entry to the ideas of nobleess oblige and unreliable narrators, so for me the big reveal was a kind of a vindication.
That said, I stopped in to see if you were watching a show on SyFy called Defiance, It is the definition of an uneven science fiction show but the central family of the show, the Tarrs, are EXACTLY Selena bait. (Brief summary: the Tarrs are Casti, one of many alien species now living on a terraformed and post apocalyptic Earth. Datak, the father, was from a lower caste and married the equivalent of a fine lady, Stahma. In their patriarchy, Stahma is not allowed to run the family buisness of drug smuggling, though of course she's grooming her husband for town politics while encouraging the strategic marriage of her grown son to the local homeowner's very human daughter...)
Stahma makes me think of you, while also being the genuinely most interesting female character in scifi in years.
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That said, I stopped in to see if you were watching a show on SyFy called Defiance, It is the definition of an uneven science fiction show but the central family of the show, the Tarrs, are EXACTLY Selena bait. (Brief summary: the Tarrs are Casti, one of many alien species now living on a terraformed and post apocalyptic Earth. Datak, the father, was from a lower caste and married the equivalent of a fine lady, Stahma. In their patriarchy, Stahma is not allowed to run the family buisness of drug smuggling, though of course she's grooming her husband for town politics while encouraging the strategic marriage of her grown son to the local homeowner's very human daughter...)
Stahma makes me think of you, while also being the genuinely most interesting female character in scifi in years.