what is essentially a group of only women, but she has no real connection with any of them. Even the first Directrix chooses her as First Mate as a punishment.
You see some interactions between female characters but it's always in service of the men in the story.
Beth is alone. Mary Luce is alone. Bella has her family but the only female family member is her mother that she doesn't seem to have a relationship with. Marissa is isolated from other women. Jane's only female connection is her sister Hannah, and she died in childhood. Cormia lives in...
It's so much effing testosterone, all the time. Seven books in, I want to see more community and connection between the female characters that isn't about the male characters. And instead, in this 7th book, Ehlena is essentially alone and isolated.
I've been reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood for the first time and I'm on book 7 (Rehvenge's book, Lover Avenged) and I've been trying to identify why I'm not vibing with the series. And I think I have figured it out...
