Reddit reviews A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark

A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark is a great pacifist urban fantasy by Harry Conolly.

> After years of waging a secret war against the supernatural, Marley Jacobs put away her wooden stakes and silver bullets, then turned her back on violence. She declared Seattle, her city, a safe zone for everyone, living and undead. There would be no more preternatural murder under her watch.

It's funny and well-plotted, and I especially liked the interplay between Marley and her nephew Al, who just left the military and is convinced that he's going to need to go full Rambo any minute now.

https://www.amazon.com/Key-Egg-Unfortunate-Remark-ebook/dp/B00RAP3NLQ

The thing is it has good ratings on amazon. To me what he said felt kind of whiney. It seems like it could be cool, the only thing that stops me from reading it now is that piece of writing. It feels like instead of saying "Hey I wrote something that hasn't really been done before" it feels like he was saying "misogyny has made older female protagonists taboo and you should all feel ashamed and buy my book."

Maybe I am a little sensitive to the whole people trying to make a problem out of characters not being the ones they want because I am also a big gamer. And everyone is always talking about how there aren't enough women.

Harry Connolly (author of the 20 Palaces series, which everyone should read if you haven't already) wrote A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark. It follows an elderly woman who formally fought against the forces of evil. Now, in her old age, she has declared Seattle a safe zone for everyone, humans and non-humans alike. Her nephew has been murdered and she investigates only to find the peace she has created has become threatened. If I remember correctly the protagonist is somewhat of a pacifist during the time of the novel.