[ SECRET POST #2998 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2998 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Does urban fantasy count, OP?

I have a really hard time finding high fantasy concepts that I like, and so I've been reading a lot of urban fantasy or trying but the random rape scenes (among other things) really put me off. The casual treatment of rape really disgusts me. Outside of Mercedes Lackey, who is the bubblegum of high fantasy, and very select urban fantasy, I've about given up on new authors.

And this worries me a lot, a writer myself, I've got rough drafts of stories I would want to read and they aren't grim dark because I don't like reading/writing through sewage. I hope the trend swings back sometime soon.

[(Anonymous)]

By bucking the trend, you'll be catering to those of us who are thirsting for something other than grimdark.

You definitely have an audience, anon!

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ayrt

well, phew, I'll have to get on those copy-editors and agents then and get published.

(If only it was that easy.)

[meredith44]

I don't know if it would be your type of style, but Seanan McGuire writes urban fantasy that isn't that dark and she has stated, "My response: "None of my protagonists are getting raped. I do not want to write that."" (Source: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/470626.html ) I have found her books to be a fun read. She might not be your thing, but I figured I would toss it out there. (Her Mira Grant persona is much darker, though, so I wouldn't recommend those works to you. Still no rape, but darker.)

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AYRT

Thanks for the rec. I've read her. There was a lack of grimdark and rape. So, I will give her that. She just ended up not being my cup of tea. But thank you so much for trying.

[(Anonymous)]

It's really interesting to me that you mention Mercedes Lackey, because the one book I read by her had a ton of rape and more grimdark than I generally like. I've been too afraid to read anything else by her, because I figured it was all the same.

[(Anonymous)]

I know, right? I've read at least two books by her that had some violent rape scenes - the last Talia book and the last Vanyel book, IIRC. Oh, wait, and then there was that whole arc in the Mage Winds series about like... the daughter of that evil mage dude who is like a catgirl. She gets raped a lot. Yeahhh. And then sexual healing. Oh yes, and there was another dude who received sexual healing, too... Actually, now that I think of it, pretty much every single rape scene is followed by sexual healing. I think she has a thing for that...

I don't think her series are steeped in it, though. Like I don't feel like rape is looming over every female character's head - in fact, half the time it's dudes getting raped, so there's that?

IIRC, the Bardic Voices series is rapeless. It's been a while since I read those, though...