I seriously should stop with fixating on this book

[dangermousie]

Hey, meganbmoore, you guessed wrong. He does have to do the usual creepy s/m thing with Artemis after he not only meets but hooks up with his OTP. An exchange for her promising not to harm the OTP. It's, as usual, creeptastic.

As you can tell by the above, I am still fixating on Acheron. About 230 pages in, I decided that if I read part I for much longer, I am going to need to be in therapy myself, as about the only thing they haven't done to him yet is lop off bits, and not only would that be nice in comparison to other things that are being done to him, but the way this book is going, that is probably going to happen sometime, too.

Side note: OMG, the scene with Artemis totally killed me, the one after she has her violent freak-out after they made love. Yikes. For some reason that freaked me out the most, maybe because he so didn't expect it and he actually trusted someone for once.


So I decided to read bits from Part 2 (modern day) instead, and it is a lot more your regular romance-novel-type-stuff if still rather twisted. Though thanks so much for inserting a charming incest rape flashback into the middle of my 'safe' romancey part.

Anyway, I stand by my opinion that what Acheron needs is not a girlfriend but decades of best therapy money could buy, but if he wants a gf, a gf he should have. I kinda like his heroine, anyway, and not just because she is a researcher in glasses :P I don't adore her or anything, but I never do with Kenyon heroines. I like her and she does not irritate me, so yay (yes, my standards for romance novel heroines are low). Plus, I totally love when they have their Buffy/Angel thing with him draining her blood and almost killing her and then feeling super-guilty. Awesome.

Plus, Tory's attitude to all the angst, supernatural, and craziness around her is pretty matter-of-fact and awesome. "Ok, so my boyfriend is super-old, and a God from a destroyed Pantheon, and also a victim of hideous abuse? Did I mention he occasionally turns blue and has a pet demon and needs blood to survive? OK.' Heh. And also she bitch-slaps Artemis and I have been waiting for someone to do it for books and books.

Though, seriously, Kenyon did you have to make her a super-virgin? I mean, fine, I'll buy she is a virgin: she is in her 20s and had short relationships with guys that ended before anything happened on that front. That's not so weird. But she's never evn had an orgasm? WTF? Unless she is either frigid or super-religious, and she is neither, I find that hard to believe.

Oh, whatever. After all the misery in the half of part 1 that I read, I am all for Acheron getting whatever. If a super-virgin makes him happy (his freakout was priceless!), than a super-virgin he shall have. By that point, if hooking up with a tree would have made him happy, I would have been all for it.

Comments

[strippedpink.livejournal.com]

I liked him and Tory A LOT...but can I just say, I cringed SO MUCH during the whole seranade-her-by-Nickelback thing? IT BROUGHT BACK TOO MUCH FANFIC TRAUMA.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Nickelback is perfect for ANY fandom, don't you know? Heee. I have yet to see a fandom (even Asian drama ones!) which has never used a nickelback song for fandom vids :P

[strippedpink.livejournal.com]

Haha, too true. I just can't believe it was in the actual BOOK. OH GOD, it was like SONGFIC...there were lyrics and EVERYTHING, and I COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING OUT LOUD.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL. I like Kenyon because so much of her is just like fanfic, but some of her fanficcy moments are cooler than others. This made me LOL too.

I like Tory a lot, though, so yay! (I had no idea if I would). But still, Acheron, go get therapy! Lots and lots and lots! (It's probably good for him Tory isn't into bdsm or roleplaying or whatever. Something tells me that would freak him out for good. Their love life might be yummy but something tells me it will be pretty vanilla :P Or at least as vanilla as it can get with bitin').

[fivil.livejournal.com]

I cringe at any and every Nickelback-using fanvid. I don't have a lot of pet peeves to do with fanvids but that is definitely among them. I'm no music snob but good god that band is crappy.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL. I like their songs OK, but my only exposure, ironically, is through fanvids :P

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Most of their songs sound pretty damn similar (there's an amusing youtube vid of exactly how similar some of their most popular songs are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=466EKohjFUo) and the singer is a huge douche. That's pretty much all I know.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't really care about band personalities but for similar songs? LOL, I guess they subscribe to 'if it ain't broken, don't fix it' school of thought.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I once saw a documentary that claimed that about a third of all women don't have their first orgasm till after the second child. A rather traumatizing thought.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Really? No way! Not even via themselves??????

[thelana.livejournal.com]

I think so.

Though I have real trouble believing these percentages.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ah, the Susan Johnson approach, then.

20s, virgin, and no orgasm before isn't really impossible, actually. It's basically a case of "socially acceptable =/= personal preference."

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Who's S Johnson?

"socially acceptable =/= personal preference."

*is confused* You mean she prefers not to have them by herself or similar and guys haven't devirginized her? *is confused*

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Susan Johnson writes...well, smut books. They can be fun, but have no redeeming value. I occassionally pick them up at booksales to browse, just to see what she came up with this time.

What I mean isthat hust because something is common (sex before marriage and/or masturbation in this case) doesn't mean that everyone does it, and it doesn't mean anything about them save that they never felt the need for one, or found someone they wanted to do the other with.

It's just like how being pro-choice doesn't automatically mean a woman will get an abortion, or supporting gay marriage doesn't mean you're gay or bisexual. For a different type of example: Many female anime and manga fans are slash fans. In most places you go online, it's all you'll see. Not every female anime/manga fan is a slash fan. Being common and/or acceptable/expected doesn't mean it's absolute.

It's actually something I've seen come up in RL more than once, and the women have been attacked for it every time and accused of being liars and hypocrites, or of being frigid, sexless ice queens.

[animeshon.livejournal.com]

I want! I want! I want! *has small temper tantrum* I went into the bookstore today just to see if they might possibly have it, but no. I have to order it and wait the 3-4 weeks for it to arrive! Grr New Zealand.

As for the super-virgin thing. I can believe it. I knew a lot of girls who'd never had an orgasm (even some who'd had sex and still not had one) when I was an RA.

*mental picture - Acheron + tree* why is this not freaking me out more :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

As for the super-virgin thing. I can believe it. I knew a lot of girls who'd never had an orgasm (even some who'd had sex and still not had one) when I was an RA.

Wow. I guess I hung out with an odd crowd :)

Can you buy it on ebay? Might be faster.

[animeshon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is buying it on eBay. It takes forever for stuff to get to NZ from overseas :( Stupid mail system! Oh well I'll get it eventually