![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieJust as I was about to say "Well, to look on the bright side, even with all the other catalogue of horrors, at least there is no self-mutilation or similar," we get to the repeated attempts at self-eye-gouging.
OK.
Man, did they have therapists/trauma surgeons/rape counselors in ancient fantasy world? Because they would get plenty of work.
Also, since there has been no blood-curdling awfulness for about ten pages, I wonder what dreadfulness will happen next?
But I have to say Acheron's older sister super-rocks. I imagine her as a common-sense Victorian schoolteacher type with hair in a bun, even though it's completely inaccurate in any respect. She is completely unfazed by all the angst/evil/craziness around her and just does what she thinks she should. Also, how did she manage to escape the evil/crazy/rapist/incestuous/torturer gene, I am not sure, but yay!
ETA: Great. And we are back to the pit of super-misery only worse. Man, I am not reading this book before going to sleep, it's going to give me nightmares. I can't read this thing in one (or two or three) sitting, I need breaks.
ETA2: According to the preface Kenyon seems to be working out some of her own abused childhood issues. Yikes.
OK.
Man, did they have therapists/trauma surgeons/rape counselors in ancient fantasy world? Because they would get plenty of work.
Also, since there has been no blood-curdling awfulness for about ten pages, I wonder what dreadfulness will happen next?
But I have to say Acheron's older sister super-rocks. I imagine her as a common-sense Victorian schoolteacher type with hair in a bun, even though it's completely inaccurate in any respect. She is completely unfazed by all the angst/evil/craziness around her and just does what she thinks she should. Also, how did she manage to escape the evil/crazy/rapist/incestuous/torturer gene, I am not sure, but yay!
ETA: Great. And we are back to the pit of super-misery only worse. Man, I am not reading this book before going to sleep, it's going to give me nightmares. I can't read this thing in one (or two or three) sitting, I need breaks.
ETA2: According to the preface Kenyon seems to be working out some of her own abused childhood issues. Yikes.
