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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[catskin.livejournal.com]

Incubus Dreams, after the sex scene with Nathanial in the office. And I can't remember anything that happened in the book prior to that.

I knew things were on a downwards slope after NiC, but I loved the series enough to give CS a try. I've read it twice and still have no idea what happens in it. I couldn't tell you anything about it beyond "Anita shags a lot of people." I bought ID second-hand from a market thinking it sounded slightly more promising. Dear God, was I ever disappointed. It's the only book I've ever been unable to finish. Anita had become a totally unsypathetic, selfish, patronising bitch (moreso), the men were all carbon copies of each other and the plot... wait... there was no plot. That's why I stopped.

A Stroke of Midnight will probably be the last Merry book I buy. It was glacially slow and I learned nothing except that Merry is Anita in a wig. Like dwg I'm kinda tempted to hold out for my Sholto sex, but unless it's a guarantee I shall abstain from Mistral's Kiss.