Some dude calling Cherryh an "overly involved author". What does that even mean

That's the kind of thing you'd say about one of those people who goes on goodreads to argue with all their bad reviews!

Or the person I was complaining about the other day who was trying and failing to be Pratchett

and consequently wrote the most obnoxiously self-conscious narration I have ever seen

C. J. "whump your darlings" "there are no happy endings" "sometimes you have to deal with the people who hurt you" Cherryh?

Even granted that this was on her extremely idtastic first published novel

people are so weird about her

They really are

At least it's not another guy implying she's some kind of closet dominatrix because a lot of her books feature powerful not-overly-nice women and/or young men Going Through It

Gee, Bob, apply that logic to your faves for a minute.

So so gross

Maybe they meant her prose style tho uh. That doesn't make sense either

It really doesn't