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A Brother's Price (2005)

por Wen Spencer

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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Science Fiction. HTML:In a world where male children are rare, a man is a valuable commodityto be sold to the highest bidder
 
It isnt easy being the oldest boy in a house run by womenespecially for Jerin Whistler. The grand-matriarchs of his clan are descended from soldiers, spies, and thieves. Thats partly whats kept their family alive in the wilderness. But it also means Jerins doomed to marry the girls next doora fate hes convinced is worse than death. But Jerin gets in even worse trouble when, in the process of a daring rescue, he falls in love with a royal princess whos as high above his station as its possible to be.
 
Ren knows that Jerin is too far below her class to be an appropriate match for her and her royal sisters. But then she hears rumors of a long-held Whistler family secretone that might provide a way for them to finally be together. Unfortunately, she still has four sisters to convince. And thats before Jerin even comes to the capitalwhere simmering political tensions will threaten not just their love, but all their lives...
Dont plan on getting anything else done if you start a Wen Spencer novel; they are exceedingly hard to put down!Nebula Award-Winning Author Catherine Asaro.
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A Brother’s Price
by Wen Spencer
316 pages
In this book the roles between male and female are reversed. Women rule the world and men are chattel, without rights, used as breeders, care giver for the children he sires, and homemaker. The cover shows the moment that changes the course of a family's life. A very young girl defends a strange woman in uniform, the girl runs back to the farmhouse to let her younger sisters know what has occurred. Her big brother helps bring the unconscious back to the house, they don't know that she is a princess. ( )
  Pebblesgmc | Jun 27, 2023 |
In a world where women dramatically outnumber men, Jerin Whistler spends his time cooking meals, tending his younger siblings, and hoping that his sisters will marry him off to a suitable family. But things begin to change after the Whistlers stumble upon a treasonous conspiracy and Jerin falls in love with five princesses.

A Brother's Price juggles plenty of genres -- science fiction, Regency romance, Westerns -- but cheerfully sticks to the lowest cliches. The shotguns and gunboats are flashy but inconsistent; the romance is entirely predictable; the SF themes are completely pasted on. The reversed gender roles have dramatic effect but no logic. In the end, your enjoyment of A Brother's Price will hinge on how amused you are to read the hero described as looking "adorable in his plum silk tunic and flowing trousers." ( )
  proustbot | Jun 19, 2023 |
A fascinating alternate world that is built up in such an interesting way. This story focuses on Jerin Whistler, the oldest Whistler boy of 4 sons and nearly 30 daughters. Boys in this society are so rare that they have a single role in society: father children. Jerin only hopes he won't be married to the unappealing neighbors, the Brindles. But after saving a woman in the woods, things take a turn for intrigue.
I love this book. I find the world fascinating and the characters interesting. For me it was definitely a can't-put-it-down book. I finished it in a single night and I was glad for it. ( )
  potds1011 | May 29, 2022 |
(Before I start gushing about it, I should say: this book has a lot of potentially disturbing content, and basically a constant underlying threat of gendered violence/rape/etc towards male characters. It didn’t bother me, but I could easily see it bothering others.)

I remembered being HELLA sad when I was done reading this book (especially after discovering there were no sequels), and, yeah, very much the case again now. I could keep following these characters and this world basically forever. I love them so much! Beautiful, clever Jerin. Eldest Whistler, Ren, and Halley giving us so many different flavors of badass! Cullen being this world’s equivalent of a tomboy, but cleaning up so nicely.

The narrative voice is pretty straightforward but there’s something I really like about it? It’s so effortless to get sucked into. I love how protective everyone is of Jerin. I love the setting. I love that this is just a dumb, wonderful romance with a side of palace intrigue and military swashbuckling. I love how the gender flip plays into all this.

Most of all, I just love being able to, even briefly, live in a world where the expectation of AMAB people is that they’re pretty and soft and need to be protected and cherished. That you’re expected to be more nurturing, more gentle, more submissive. This book meant a lot to me when I read it early on in college. I was in the middle of questioning my gender identity and sexual orientation, so having something that played with gender the way this did as just a baked-in part of the setting was just so exactly what I needed. As I reread it now I do find myself at timmes wishing that it had been done differently. Specifically I don’t like the idea that men had to be more scarce to sort of justify why society developed the way it did? And the society presented here does not seem to have any room in it for transgender and nonbinary individuals, or even AMAB gay people. (Nor is there much room for lesbians, though lesbian sex does at least come up a few times.)

Oh, and there’s the fact that everything is based on procreation. Procreation is… not something I’ve ever been interested in. I’m ace, actually, so the whole scarcity of males and desperate need for the ones that exist to procreate would… really not work for me? So all the aforementioned is obviously not great for me in terms of wish fulfilment. But idk? Even taking it all into account, at times this book is just… perfect. I just want to slip right into Jerin’s shoes.

Yeah, it isn’t a perfect fit for me, because in this fictional society boys are still expected to eventually be comfortable being called “men,” and… yeah. That one will never really work for me? I’ve tried being a cis boy, a trans girl, an enby, an enby boy… that last one has stuck alright, even if it at times has seemed ironic that I found my way back to some kind of boyhood, but one thing I have never at any point been comfortable with is the word “man”?

And before you start worrying, I get that in actuality, it will be better for everyone (including me) to fight for a more egalitarian society, and I’m certainly never going to ADVOCATE for a society like this one, but… still… having had such a hard time carving out a gendered space for myself that makes any kind of sense, and having to explain and justify it all the time… it’s hard to read something like this and not wish that I could just wake up in a world where my kind of boyhood is the default assumption.

(... on the other hand, I kind of love being neutered, and that is VERY much something that world wouldn’t let boys do. Shrug.)

It’s a pity there wasn’t a sequel, and doesn’t seem to be any sign the author is considering one. Aside from my aforementioned misgivings about it, I really want more books in this setting. Or at least a similar setting. I’ve kind of scoured the internet for recommendations for similar books, and I’m gonna try reading a few that popped up in that search, but I’m not sure I’m gonna find anything that will quite hit this exact same spot.

There’s a flippant part of me that wants to say “maybe I’ll just write one!” but I’m not going to pretend for even a second that I could do so nearly as skillfully as Wen Spencer did. On top of all the wish fulfillment, this is just such a terrific read! I just really, really didn’t want it to end. ( )
1 vote MoonLibrary | Dec 7, 2021 |
Good, very readable. A particularly good place to examine the hero/heroine tropes, since the male/female roles have been swapped. Jerin certainly takes the traditional place of the sought-after and protected heroine, but he also seems to share the role of the hero with several of the women. ( )
  kcollett | Nov 25, 2021 |
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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Science Fiction. HTML:In a world where male children are rare, a man is a valuable commodityto be sold to the highest bidder
 
It isnt easy being the oldest boy in a house run by womenespecially for Jerin Whistler. The grand-matriarchs of his clan are descended from soldiers, spies, and thieves. Thats partly whats kept their family alive in the wilderness. But it also means Jerins doomed to marry the girls next doora fate hes convinced is worse than death. But Jerin gets in even worse trouble when, in the process of a daring rescue, he falls in love with a royal princess whos as high above his station as its possible to be.
 
Ren knows that Jerin is too far below her class to be an appropriate match for her and her royal sisters. But then she hears rumors of a long-held Whistler family secretone that might provide a way for them to finally be together. Unfortunately, she still has four sisters to convince. And thats before Jerin even comes to the capitalwhere simmering political tensions will threaten not just their love, but all their lives...
Dont plan on getting anything else done if you start a Wen Spencer novel; they are exceedingly hard to put down!Nebula Award-Winning Author Catherine Asaro.

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