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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.

Comments

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

To be fair, overcoming evil with the power of love is a well-worn idea.

[clover-elf-kin.livejournal.com]

Huh. I did not know that. ^^ Off the top of my head, I really can't think of any others where love literally defeated someone (scenes like Amelia's defeat of Xellos simply through the power of positive thinking notwithstanding). What examples do you know?

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Amusingly enough, this turned up recently as a topic on RPG.net, and though what constituted "evil defeated by love" got a bit broad, stories included

Stardust
Stephen King's IT (well, underage group sex, anyway)
The Fifth Element
Yellow Submarine
The Princess Bride (which also fell into that subset of "love can rescue/resurrect a fallen hero")
The Shining
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi