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Okay, so I finally broke and checked out The Harlequin from my library. Yes, I feel dirty.

Well, first some general comments. This novel was confusing. It was like there was a plot, but then there wasn't. I counted... they spend something like150 pages dicking around at the hospital, having various theraputic smecksing and sue-ish justification conversations. Sometimes, I just wish Anita could get in her car and drive to 7-11 without encountering three corpses and an orgy on the way. Wait, make that three orgies and one corpse...

The first question is, didn't Sylvie used to be gay? Like super gay? As in, she would have had a go at being lupa, only she's gay? As in, it was presented as a more horrendous-er tragedy that she'd been raped, because rape (in LKH-verse) apparently isn't as upsetting if you like the peen to begin with? (All my books are packed in storage or I'd look it up myself.)

Okay, I guess that's really just one question. Most of the rest is general eye-rolling, scoffing noises. And at the end of the book, when Anita beat the bad guys with love, I threw up a little... in my soul.

I should have written down my specific complaints while reading. It's all just blurred into one dissatisfying lump.

Threaded | Flat

Yes, she totally used to be gay, and it was a striking part of one of the plots, not just a throwaway mention. LKH blamed the error on a copyeditor, the dumbass.

And like you, I puked inwardly at "defeating you through the power of LOVE!" Has LKH been watching too much Sailor Moon recently?

Defeat through the power of love?

Um...LKH? Madeleine L'Engle called. She wants her plot point back.**

**L'Engle must be really tired of having A Wrinkle in Time ripped off by mediocre writers. Rowling stole the same plot point for Deathly Hallows, and she didn't handle it well either.