Sweet Zombie Baby Jesus Is She FOR REAL?

[sweetalbatross.livejournal.com]

Well, I was a fool and tried to read NiC.

Made it 200 pages, stopped, and banished the four books I owned to backs of my case right with SMeyer's work. Which did not hurt my head as much btw

I heard somewhere that in DM, Laurita has a pregnancy scare that winds up being just a scare. And since it's pretty much common knowledge LKH=AB it made me wonder if it was her way of playing God with the whole kid thing. If that makes sense. I mean, if Anita is wish fulfillment, does that mean she wishes she never got knocked up?

Anywhoo, back to what sent me here again. The buyer's remorse comment. My friend who got me into AB mentioned off-hand that in one book (blood noir maybe? she couldn't recall) that Anita waved off a girl who was raped as buyer's remorse.

WHAT THE HELL?

Slap, punch kick.

As someone who has been through something traumatic as a child, I have strong feelings about sexual abuse/assault and this makes me want to hurt someone. So when a man is raped its OMGTRAGIC but when you're a woman, it's buyer's remorse? Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. At least SMeyer didn't go there. Dear God woman! Does this apply to younger women as well? Hope not.

Sorry, I got really mad. I cut like 3/4 of my rant down though!

Comments

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

I unfortunately shelled out for a hardcover first edition.

After the infamous shower scene, I spent the rest of the book waiting for Anita to empty an entire clip into Micah for raping her, body and soul. I dumped the book in disgust when she didn't. :/ I still can't read much beyond NiC as I just read it as Anita 'acting out' as a victim following a fairly traumatic rape :(

[queenmeow.livejournal.com]

Waiting for her to kill him was the only reason I read the whole thing. NiC was so terrible, you could skip chunks of pages and not miss anything, like missing a few weeks of a daily soap opera. Her treatment of sexual abuse survivors and her treatment of all things sexual in general makes me wonder. It's been speculated the first books were better because her ex-husband had a hand in them; I wonder if her current husband, who is the basis for the awful character of Micah, has a hand in the books since NiC. In that book Micah is originally one of the bad guys but Anita has her character lobotomized and he's around until the current book. That rape scene is vile and only the first of many rape scenes to come.
Do I need to draw a map to show where my train of thought is going here? (seriously, I'm not sure if I'm clear. I have newly diagnosed MS, it messes with thought logic)
How has LKH not heard from any trauma survivor organizations about the damage she does? Has she heard and thinks it's just like any pr is good pr?
She's not the only one who sucks here, I blame her publishers for letting this rape culture crap get out.

[mariadeangeles.livejournal.com]

Yeah seriously. Her first husband sounded a bit extreme too though, he had an issue with Anita and JC having a kiss scene and now she's on the complete opposite side of the spectrum. It's like she has no balance.I dont understand how she hasnt heard from any organizations either.