Comments on: The Body at the Tower (Y.S. Lee)

By: J

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:25:20 +0000

Ah.. so it wasn’t like.. a feminist ‘we must pursue this as women’ sort of thing then.

By: K

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:02:45 +0000

Well, the answer is definitely spoilery. So don’t read this comment if you’re worried about that kind of thing. :)

There’s two reasons for the controversy.

1) They’re worried that having Mary disguise herself as a boy will give her flashbacks to her criminal days when she had to disguise herself as a boy. Not because they’re afraid she’ll go rogue but because of PTSD or something.

2) They typically do their spying in other venues, and The Agency does not have experience with building sites, construction and most male professions. So there’s a risk of making fools of themselves and damaging their reputation versus the possibility of expanding their opportunities.

By: J

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:54:23 +0000

Well… I do like girls disguised as boys. In theory. There’s so much cliched about it now that it’s not enough to get me to read the book. Especially given my experience with the first book of this series. I find myself wishing you’d gone into describing it more though! :)

And why are they so reluctant to let her do it? Wasn’t Sherlock Holmes doing it all the time? Or was that not canon Holmes?