![]() ![]() Each character is very clearly based on a specific, identifiable female from six different comics (Marvel and DC both), whom have been fridged in any (and often many) numbers of way by the universe they were in. This work is comprised of six stories of such women, in the "Hell Hath Club" with meets in Dead Town, told from each of their point of views. These are the stories of girlfriends and wives, who always bare the brunt, the abuse, and often the role of the murdered on the path of Responsibility and Greatness for The White Patriarchal Male Superhero. This novella is a love letter style fuck you to the Patriarchal White Male Superhero of decades, told in the style of the The Vagina Monologues about by the 'Women in Fridergators' as Gail Simone termed them. The deadest girl in deadtown," and continues to pluck and interview with the words of Holly Black short story-then-novel 'The Coldest Girl in Coldtown,' the alliterative mimicry of both likely fusing them forever into my mind. I think because I knew how long this would sit with me, and how true it would bleach itself into my bones. I received this book as an ARC from Netgalley, and picked up the Audible and Kindle versions as soon as they were available but even with all three I had not sat down and devoured it, even as I'd plowed through so much else that Valente had written from Labyrinth forward. I have been meaning to read this novel since long before it was released. Spring 2109 (Netgalley, Audible, & Kindle) ![]()
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