At best, this is incredibly badly done research.

Adonai is, in fact, one of the Jewish names for God. Blood magic itself isn't antisemitic and can be interesting! Except in Nevernight, the character is named Adonai.

In Nevernight, Jay Kristoff has a character who practices a form of blood magic. Now some of you may be wondering, 'Laura what is this and where does it show up in Jay Kristoff's books?' Well, the latter can be answered easily enough: it shows up in the goddamn Nevernight trilogy! To keep this as short as possible: blood libel is this thing that started in the Middle Ages where Christians decided that Jewish people performed blood sacrifices specifically using Christian children. He decided to pull inspiration for his bad guys from antisemitic tropes.īlood libel. He's writing erotica of minors because he's a creep and those who refuse to engage with those scenes uncritically, well.I got some news for you. The issues come in when you realize that Jay Kristoff is a man in his forties and the book is marketed towards adults. She has sex and Kristoff writes this scene in detail (he even describes it as 'smut' on his website). Now the book in question is Nevernight, which is one of the only five books Book Twitter has heard of, so sorry to ruin this for you. He wrote graphic sex scenes involving a sixteen-year-old girl. Luckily for y’all, I’m here to change that! In easy listicle format to boot! Yet, somehow, a certain subset of these folks will ignore one of the worst men of them all: Jay Kristoff.ĭespite having done several bad things that range from “cringe” to “are you fucking kidding me,” the author seems to avoid having any mark on his reputation. It makes sense since so many of them are so horrifically bad at it. The Internet loves making fun of men writing women, to the point that there’s a Reddit thread about it.

Stormdancer by jay kristoff