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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-11-18 02:28 pm

[ SECRET POST #2147 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2147 ⌋

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

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Re: I will never forgive this writer for X!

[personal profile] creambun 2012-11-19 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Gordon Dahlquist for The Red Volume. Like, I'm not sure whether he's trying to write as an unreliable narrator because it isn't working. So many spoilers because wow, that book pissed me off. I actually wrote a big comment about it to a friend when I finished it years ago and it's still pretty accurate of my feelings:

Three main characters; each character gets their own POV chapter (in third person) and the girl is semi-attracted to the other two guys but it doesn't hinder or anything. One guy is an assassin who had his prostitute lover killed and is still upset. The other is a doctor who loved another character but then got upset when they found out she was the lover of an enemy (but it's not like she could even remember because they stole her memories).

They split up again in the beginning (basically because the guys are butthurt about love in some form, so they just left the unconscious main girl in a village with no-memory girl) and spend 400 pages trying to find one dude/what is going on in the first place. Eventually, we find out everyone's looking for him because they're going to bring a dead person back with his body as a vessel. Along the way, they sort of team up with their rivals from the first book.

The vessel works, but he's completely insane because they brought him back from the moment before he died. Crazy guy changes a hurt enemy into complete glass for power and wants to use another enemy's daughter, which everyone freaks out about. No-memory girl runs away with daughter. Glass guy makes himself explode, and the main three run away while everyone else pretty much dies.

SO THEN, the girl and assassin are running away in a nearby and she chooses that time to get mad at him for leaving the village in the beginning. He stammers and they start kissing each other, but assassin pushes girl away while he gets killed by their enemy-turned-ally-turned-enemy-again. Main girl runs away and bumps into an annoying army captain. The doctor is also there and is basically like 'I have nothing to live for, so strike me as you wish' and fights the captain to death.

Main girl finds no-memory girl and the daughter. Main girl was just irritated that she saw her allies and previous enemies together in a group because she was the last one to arrive at the place, so she basically beats the shit out of no-memory girl. The person that killed the assassin comes up and knocks her out. She wakes up with no-memory girl dead and the daughter taken.

"She would reach the canal. Beyond the canal was the train. She had money in her boot. Beyond the train was the city, her certain death...and her revenge."

Just what she's going to do as revenge is a complete mystery.


What I forgot to mention was that the beginning of the sequel was completely different from the ending of the first book (where the characters were alive and happy and actively pursuing the island) and that the author spent half a page describing a blue glass penis while the glass guy himself is about to explode and kill everyone.

The third book just came out, so I need to find it somewhere just to finish it off.