They're just beginning the process of mid-life abortion. Don't be bigots.
Archive this stuff. Bitch is protected now.
It was a warning shot, so it wasn't for no reason.
It was just a stupid reason.
being raised by two women
Let's be honest, genetics are only part of the reason for the kid being crazy.
The setting of the book is that the source of magic has a male side and a female side, kind of like yin and yang. The setting's devil corrupted the male side, meaning that any man who uses magic enough eventually goes insane, so all male magic users are hunted down and killed without exception.
The story's main character is the reincarnation of history's strongest male magic user. So of course the vast majority of female magic users take some exception to the entire situation.
And also holy fuck yes it gets bogged down. I can only guess that the author's life was in some way tied to the life of his characters because it felt like every single book a dozen characters got added and none of them ever fucking died. That's the reason I gave up the series 10 or so books in. I just couldn't fucking keep up with it anymore.
And of course one of the replies is, "But where are the pro-life Christians," as if wanting to protect the lives of innocent unborn children means I should also want to protect abhorrent murderers.
He's pro-death, why isn't he supporting this?
they're only allowed to leave the house for one hour a day
How is this tracked?
That might be because FDR actually didn't order the nukes. He was dead. Truman ordered the nukes dropped.
Now, to be fair, he almost 100% WOULD have ordered the nukes dropped, given how much funding he had put into their R&D. But Truman was the one to actually make the call.