My moment of shrieking horror and sobs of anguish came from that preview of Mistral's Kiss that's up on the website. I started wobbling when I heard the title (dear god, of all the Fairy Skittles... she's titling something after MISTRAL??! The ageless faerie with all the pick-up line panache of a drunken frat boy??!), but the preview in all it's mis-spelled acid trippy glory is what did it for me. White pig, black pig, little pig, dead pig. And one to have beastiality with.
I forgive the Merry series its wonky times when they're in the Sithen- Fairyland and time don't mix well according to legend anyway. You go in for a night and come out 50 years later in the stories, so it would figure that they might have all that crap happen and it's really only been one night. It's iffy but at least she creates iffy canon for the iffy reasoning. Whereas in Anita she set up one canon and then blew it all to Penthouse Hell.
But now the typos and acid trips have eaten Merry's little bit of questionable plot and I am sad. That could have been a helluva cool idea, you know. Actual dangerous bad-ass faeries and sex and mingling with the real world and politics. Yeah, it could have been really fun. Sigh. Stupid Laurell, going all insane just when she finally had a heroine I could stand.
No. I had no moment of revelation of the horror with Anita... well, okay, maybe Micah's pages o' unloveable penile angst might be a leading cause of squick. But reading Cerulean Sins and then reading Guilty Pleasures didn't help. Because I could swear those two were in no way related aside from character names. And I never did like Anita herself. Not too fond of Merry but I could live with her... until the last book or so when she's completely become Anita 2.
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I forgive the Merry series its wonky times when they're in the Sithen- Fairyland and time don't mix well according to legend anyway. You go in for a night and come out 50 years later in the stories, so it would figure that they might have all that crap happen and it's really only been one night. It's iffy but at least she creates iffy canon for the iffy reasoning. Whereas in Anita she set up one canon and then blew it all to Penthouse Hell.
But now the typos and acid trips have eaten Merry's little bit of questionable plot and I am sad. That could have been a helluva cool idea, you know. Actual dangerous bad-ass faeries and sex and mingling with the real world and politics. Yeah, it could have been really fun. Sigh. Stupid Laurell, going all insane just when she finally had a heroine I could stand.
No. I had no moment of revelation of the horror with Anita... well, okay, maybe Micah's pages o' unloveable penile angst might be a leading cause of squick. But reading Cerulean Sins and then reading Guilty Pleasures didn't help. Because I could swear those two were in no way related aside from character names. And I never did like Anita herself. Not too fond of Merry but I could live with her... until the last book or so when she's completely become Anita 2.