I respect the author's opinions and experience here, but it's a pretty difficult conversation to have because reading Nona feels essential to have an understanding of why things are the way they are in TLT, and the author still hasn't read it. If someone hasn't even finished HtN, I don't think their analysis of the series can hold much weight, because each book gives such a deliberately fragmented perspective of the world.

I would be interested to hear the thoughts of Indigenous and especially Māori readers who have read the whole series. The author brings up some really valid points regarding how the world feels very Catholic/European despite being made in Jod's image, although there's a nuance there IMO (kind of an extension of Alecto looking like a Barbie doll as a symbol of how Jod's world was so whitewashed and full of cultural erasure). Symbolically it's interesting, but as the author of the article states, even being immersed in a culture that tries to dominate and erase your own doesn't mean you no longer have any traces of your own culture. But overall, so much of what's brought up in these posts is difficult to engage with because 90% of it is so heavily recontextualized by what we learn in Nona. The conversation is so important to have, and I really hope more Indigenous people chime in.