What was THE MOMENT for you?

[bluesimplicity.livejournal.com]

Hey Fellow Lashers. 

I've got a question I've been wondering about for you all. Consider it a survey of sorts.

What was THE MOMENT when you knew that you were done with AB:VH (Or even Merry?) I'm not talking about the bad grammer, the endless, bore me to death sex scenes, or LKH not even remembering how to spell her own character names. (We've all plodded along with those in the hopes that it would someday get better.) I mean the moment when it FINALLY happened. When you threw whatever book you were reading across the room and just KNEW you were never going to pick it up again?

For me, it had to be in Incubus Dreams. I almost did it when we found out Richard was now a rape victim (WHAT?? A-fucking-NOTHER one?? Can you not have a dick in the AB world and not get raped?) But I held on. Then it was almost the sex scene were Anita goes on and on in great detail about barfing and blowjobs, followed by the 18 thousand fuckmefuckmefuckmes at the end. But not quite - I was plodding along until....

The bad guys leave a note. 

After all this drama, all this tension (well, no not really, but let's pretend), said bad guys don't even show up and do a "Whoops! Our bad! So sorry. Gotta-go-bye!" 

For me, that was IT! I was never ever EVER going to pay good money to read this woman's crap again. And I feel so much freer for it!

What was everyone's else THAT'S IT moment of clarity? 

Just curious.

Blue

P.S. For Merry, it was in the last book, which I didn't even bother to read, when my friend mentioned to me that is was 384 pages and they STILL hadn't made it to the Seelie Court. But they sure as hell did fuck alot. BAH!!

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[summersdream.livejournal.com]

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.