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⌈ Secret Post #5871 ⌋

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


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Spoilers and Trigger Warnings Ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

Alright, so the genre is Urban Fantasy and it leans hard into the trashy romance novel side of things. Which, don't get me wrong here. I love a good trashy romance novel. But if there's a trope in either of those genres that annoys you, you'll probably find it in these books. Moving into potential trigger territory now.
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There is a lot of gratuitous rape, and it's handled pretty clumsily both from the writing perspective and narratively. There's a stretch in there where it feels like any time the author's stuck on character development or how to move a plot forward, someone gets raped.

There's also the author's obsession with pregnancy and having children that has been passed onto every fucking character in the series, to the point of one of the main character's primary "not like the other girls" characteristics is her ability to probably get pregnant (unlike female werewolves who mostly can't). There is more than one book where a character has either considered getting an abortion or has gotten one and this is treated like somewhere between a tragedy and a war crime. In at least two of these cases, the character had been raped.

The author also decided to make a handful of characters Native American and throw in some Native American spiritual/cultural elements? She did better than Stephanie Meyer, but it's not great.

The last couple of books have also taken a hard left into body horror and incest, which whatever floats your boat, but it kind of came out of nowhere.

Overall, this series has kind of turned into the urban fantasy version of VC Andrews after the ghostwriter took over.

Re: Spoilers and Trigger Warnings Ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

My friends and I in the 2000s passed around paranormal fantasy series like candy, so I remember this one, and how we all, silently and unanimously, dropped this series HARD after book 3. Glad to know I didn't miss anything worthwhile after that.

Re: Spoilers and Trigger Warnings Ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

Oh so it's like... an even trashier Anita Blake series.

Re: Spoilers and Trigger Warnings Ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah, this was series was every bit as trashy as anyone could possibly dream of, and I was enjoying it until it hit a point where it seemed like the super special coyote-shifter MC developed a bad case of "no female friends, only jealous rivals" early on. I ignored it for a while, but it was turn-off, and that vibe seemed to keep escalating. I never bothered picking it up again. Now I'm glad.

But you do you, OP! Sometimes you just have to see where that floating burning dumpster ends up.

Re: Spoilers and Trigger Warnings Ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Like another anon, I dropped it after book 3 and the super special main character got sexually assaulted...basically for no good reason.

What's wild is that I've read other books by Patricia Briggs and while none of them are High Literature, they're also not always terrible. I remember really liking the Raven books as a whole. But this particular series, nah.

Re: Spoilers and Trigger Warnings Ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure the reason was literally that the romance with super special romantic interest was moving too quickly for the plot so she threw "ptsd from rape" into the mix to slow things down.

Re: Spoilers and Trigger Warnings Ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

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Her Raven series was actually fairly distinct from her others because it didn't have the sexual assaults or deaths happening to the main character or love interest of the main character. (They were married. He got beat up and kidnapped but that's mild for Patty.) Most of her other books have something of that nature. Hurog had both the love interest and the main character suffer.

Then the mercenary ones might as well have been tropey romances, stuff STILL came up. I began to think she had a complex.

Re: Spoilers and Trigger Warnings Ahoy

[(Anonymous)]

SA - I almost forgot about the fucked up pack dynamics. See, werewolf packs are inherently violently sexist and homophobic, and you can tell that Our Heroes are the good guys because they don't advocate raping the unmarried women in their pack and they didn't kill their one gay wolf. Also, one time they acknowledged that a female wolf could be a male wolf's equal. We're breaking all kinds of barriers here, folks.