It’s tempting to forgive some of Mercedes’s flaws as Product Of Her Time but the thing is I have a…

It’s tempting to forgive some of Mercedes’s flaws as Product Of Her Time but the thing is I have a direct analogy in Tamora Pierce who published over the same period and over that period made some significant missteps and also significant improvements (and some missteps that she meant as improvements) and I think the difference between the two comes down to the fact that the writing in the…