[ SECRET POST #2434 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2434 ⌋

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

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02.
[A7X]


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03.
[Stargate Atlantis]


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04.
[Merlin]


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05.
[Audrey Cooper, Twin Peaks]


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06.
[Fire Emblem: Awakening]


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07.
[Avril Lavigne, Tank Girl]


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08.
[Meet the Robinsons]


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09.
[Blood+]


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10.
[Monty Python's Flying Circus]


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11.
[Valentine Morgenstern, The Mortal Instruments]


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Comments

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[meredith44]

Claimed by Shadow by Cassandra Palmer. I'm a sucker for fantasy stories, and I am fine if there is romance to them, but this one? I despised it. I know a lot of people love it, at least based on the reviews on Goodreads, but I really don't know how.

First of all, the main character was an idiot who couldn't figure out the simplest things. And then there were a lot of consent/control issues. Basically, I felt like Cassie had no agency whatsoever and it wasn't just threats to her life (which I expect in a fantasy story), but it was also that her control (especially sexually) was constantly taken away from her. (One of the other main characters had set a spell on her when she was a child that would make her only want to have sex with him. And this is romantic?)

These control/non-con issues could have been palatable if this were a dark novel, but I got the impression that it was supposed to be a fun/light romantic thing. Like "Aw, of course she can't resist these people; isn't it romantic/aren't they so great together?" And that really, really disturbed me. Enough that I couldn't even finish the book, which is something I rarely do.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

I HATEEEE things like that. Like how in Twilight, it's supposed to be ~cute and romantic~ that Jacob imprints on a baby. Honestly, the only purpose of imprinting is to find a mate. Why the fuck would a baby be a good mate? And that they HAVE NO CHOICE, because "lol who could resist the perfect boyfriend who waits on you hand and foot?". Oh, but when they do, they get clawed in the face. But she wasn't being serious, of course, she learned her lesson!

And that there was ANOTHER werewolf that imprinted on a child, ugh.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[meredith44]

Apparently a lot of people enjoy that aspect of books. Like a version of soulmates or what have you. I've never been one for the soulmates thing to begin with and then to have it start off with such power differential makes it worse for me. (For bonus fun times, other vampires blamed the girl because the guy vampire casting the binding spell on her caused him issues. Like, what? It wasn't her fault he decided to bind her (and not even tell her anything about it)! Sigh...)