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[holdouttrout]

My brother gave me a book rec a while back.

Me: Is the main character a man or a woman?

Him (already sensing where this is going): man.

Me: is one of the main characters a female character who isn’t a love interest for the main male character?

Him: well, there’s a romance…

Me: does she have anything else to her story besides the romance?

Him: it’s a really good book! I think you’d like it. You shouldn’t dismiss it just because of that.

Me: I have spent so much of my life reading about men and their adventures and their romances. And honestly, I’m bored of books that don’t have women. I don’t think they’re terrible, or that they can’t be really good books, but I have limited time and I don’t want to read any more books that don’t have female characters front and center.