Official Review: McDowell by William H. Coles
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Re: Official Review: McDowell by William H. Coles
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When an author makes you feel for characters who are committing immoral acts, that's not always a good thing or a sign of good writing. Although obviously, it depends on whether we are talking about regular immorality versus crimes-against-humanity level immorality. It's not really clear from your review which it is. If it's just regular, normal immorality, sure, we all have some of that, and it's reasonably healthy to empathize with that. However, if an author makes you empathize too much with characters who commit crimes against humanity, pretty sure that's called propaganda. Especially if it's done by means of cutting the perspective of the victims out of the story.
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