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beccaelizabeth) wrote2015-08-03 07:35 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2015-08-03 07:35 pm
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Today I had to go back to bed and have a nap in the afternoon due to my huge expedition of three hours a few hundred yards up the road.
... I epically need more exercise and to leave the house more often.
I also started a third book by Lilith Saintcrow. So far they seem to be set in three different urban fantasy 'verses. I liked the first one I read best, but cannot find a second in the series in the library system. Libraries are a bit random.
The worldbuilding is inventive, deft, epic, really a lot of fun... and utterly let down by their gender relations.
There is a guy. He is tortured, woeful, angsty, and probably not human. He may or may not think he has no soul, and almost certainly thinks he is past redemption. He is at the mercy of his instincts, which are scary powerful things that might take him over and make him... protective! Oh noes! Only the way protective manifests involves a lot of shaking 'his' woman, who he shouldn't be bonding with in the first place, due to what seem like very sensible precautions against ultra violent guys going ultra stalker on women. Also he's supposed to obey her, but mostly looms at her being scary and threatening and pushing her around (for her own good) and warning her to do exactly what he says when he says to freeze and not fight back because instincts. Instincts that also give him a hard on at really inconvenient moments, like when he should be doing violence. And then at some point in the book he'll be struggling against his unprecedented urge to do sex with her, possibly even force himself on her, but in a sexy way (*hiss spit*). And then there's some kind of soul bonding thing with sex and blood and pinning her down and doing stuff that kind of looks like it's against her will but we're in her point of view and she thinks something about it being okay somehow. Blergh. And then he'll kill a bunch of people and sacrifice himself for her, but probably survive because of their bond.
I emphasise these are three completely different 'verses, theoretically three different characters, but aside from what irritating pet name he uses for her he's basically the same guy.
And basically a guy where the protagonist should run a mile, or possibly slay him, or just tell him to fuck off and sort himself out.
Instincts.
*hiss spit*
*shudder*
The annoying thing is I like the women. So far they've been distinctive and interesting. Three different power sets, three different attitudes to and aptitudes for violence, three different ways of talking, three different pasts not all traumatic. Just different and interesting women.
Who for some reason let themselves be pushed around by tall dark and violent men.
Now the formula is clear I think I'm giving up on the author.
... I epically need more exercise and to leave the house more often.
I also started a third book by Lilith Saintcrow. So far they seem to be set in three different urban fantasy 'verses. I liked the first one I read best, but cannot find a second in the series in the library system. Libraries are a bit random.
The worldbuilding is inventive, deft, epic, really a lot of fun... and utterly let down by their gender relations.
There is a guy. He is tortured, woeful, angsty, and probably not human. He may or may not think he has no soul, and almost certainly thinks he is past redemption. He is at the mercy of his instincts, which are scary powerful things that might take him over and make him... protective! Oh noes! Only the way protective manifests involves a lot of shaking 'his' woman, who he shouldn't be bonding with in the first place, due to what seem like very sensible precautions against ultra violent guys going ultra stalker on women. Also he's supposed to obey her, but mostly looms at her being scary and threatening and pushing her around (for her own good) and warning her to do exactly what he says when he says to freeze and not fight back because instincts. Instincts that also give him a hard on at really inconvenient moments, like when he should be doing violence. And then at some point in the book he'll be struggling against his unprecedented urge to do sex with her, possibly even force himself on her, but in a sexy way (*hiss spit*). And then there's some kind of soul bonding thing with sex and blood and pinning her down and doing stuff that kind of looks like it's against her will but we're in her point of view and she thinks something about it being okay somehow. Blergh. And then he'll kill a bunch of people and sacrifice himself for her, but probably survive because of their bond.
I emphasise these are three completely different 'verses, theoretically three different characters, but aside from what irritating pet name he uses for her he's basically the same guy.
And basically a guy where the protagonist should run a mile, or possibly slay him, or just tell him to fuck off and sort himself out.
Instincts.
*hiss spit*
*shudder*
The annoying thing is I like the women. So far they've been distinctive and interesting. Three different power sets, three different attitudes to and aptitudes for violence, three different ways of talking, three different pasts not all traumatic. Just different and interesting women.
Who for some reason let themselves be pushed around by tall dark and violent men.
Now the formula is clear I think I'm giving up on the author.
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