Deal with Sam’s real problem of looking for his sister in this story, not the next one, without contriving a mess that accomplishes nothing and arrives in the air.These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. Cut everything you can cut, including the Tir sequence, Greerson and Ridley, Sato and Marushige, half-heartedness of Lofwyr’s involvement, Hasserlich’s weak motive - if there’s nothing worth writing about an MC who isn’t there, write something else. If you’re not prepared to write about rape responsibly, don’t write it, and Crenshaw’s role would function completely unchanged.

He doesn’t care to know neither he, Sam or the woman who’s alright because she’s shagging them, have to confront or even think about the atrocity they let their chummers commit.

If that’s all his corrupted honour is worth, that’s all this book is worth. The non-reaction Ghost-Who-Walks has to the white MC stealing his girl doesn’t add anything good to his character or Sally’s, although the ‘honourable’ street-sam should be more concerned that one of his best men is a rapist. She does well in a few underdetailled fight scenes but her role as Sam’s love interest comes from nowhere at all, as if a pretty Asian girl to shag the MC can be taken for granted. Sally Tsung, Susan’s Chinese-American soul sister, doesn’t fare much better. Flawed as my Fighter’s Story is, I think I’ve done better than that, without pay. Which is resolved by killing the victim, while the rapists go off to party with the ‘heroes’. This attacks everything the victim represents, even the corporate arrogance shadowrunners are meant to be attacking, as well as a strong woman, a career woman and a woman, in the most corrupted, shameful and disgusting manner. This isn’t as bad as Goblins Slayer’s casual shaming and silencing of women as helpless victims, but Alice Crenshaw is effectively written as a very stupid and ugly demonization of rape victims. Because the world revolves around the male protagonist, and rape victims are psychotic harridans, irredeemably ruined by the incurable and unmentionable.

Crenshaw’s flashback scene is largely a rant about how disgusting the poor are, and how she’s irrationally going to get revenge on Verner, not the rapists. Or when it isn’t clear until an explicit statement at the end that Alice Crenshaw was raped by allies of the protagonist, because the story does not appear to give a damn about a woman being raped. A novel can’t be held up for clarity of writing when it isn’t clear until the ¾ mark that the unnamed scheming golden dragon in chpt 4 isn’t Lofwyr (Ambiguous language isn’t a mysterious plot, it’s bad writing).

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