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!!

Comments

Absolutely...

[bluesimplicity.livejournal.com]

Not getting to the Seelie Court was a breaker for me too. I had liked Merry even better than Anita up until that point (she just seemed mellower and more mature), but after Caress of Twilight, when the entire book was "We've got to get to the Seelie Court....HOH BOY, the Seelie Court...Oh man, what is going to happen once we get to the Seelie Court" and then for them to not get there I was perturbed, to put it mildly. (I remember reading that book and going, hmm, 100 pages left, they better get to the Seelie Court....Hmm, only 50 pages left, when are they going to get to the Seelie court...Wait, only 5 pages left, they better hurry their asses up!" I felt completely cheated by the end.)

And then, as I said, to hear that there was another FOUR HUNDRED bloody pages and they STILL couldn't get to the damn Seelie Court, and I was done with Merry. My friend, who passed this info on to me, said they spend a good three chapters debating the logistics of a blow job, but not getting to the Seelie Court. WTF??

Re: Absolutely...

[withered-spring.livejournal.com]

And then, as I said, to hear that there was another FOUR HUNDRED bloody pages and they STILL couldn't get to the damn Seelie Court, and I was done with Merry. My friend, who passed this info on to me, said they spend a good three chapters debating the logistics of a blow job, but not getting to the Seelie Court. WTF??

What about taking an entire chapter to get to the fucking point? I'd be like, on the fourth paragraph and see where things were going and just be ill with disgust. Because suddenly, at the end of the chapter, Laurell would drop the bomb (otherwise known as OMFG WAT PLOT TWIST!!1) and I would seethe with loathing.