Hmmmm...

[chubling.livejournal.com]

So, it's been a while since I read the Merry series, but my Mom and I have started this tradition of giving each other really awful romance books along with our actual Christmas presents. This year, I got her the first Merry book. I was flipping through it at her house the other day and was reminded about the Branwyn's Tears (or something really close to that) plot.

Now, the Tears are this AWFUL thing that the book makes a big deal about. They make you want to have sex with someone and are like a drug. Sound familiar? How is it that it's fine when Anita does that to people (and herself honestly), but in Merry's world, it's seen as the awful rape drug it is.

How did LKH miss that?

Comments

[queenmeow.livejournal.com]

If you ever watch crime shows, I'm thinking Wicked Attraction or Deadly Women, their are women who do sexual torture and murder in order to please a man and stay part of a couple. Anita strikes me as one of those women. The Merry books started about the same time as Anita's slide, so the Merry books are equally as crappy. I listened to book one of Merry on a road trip and I had forgotten how repetitious and vile it is.
The whole scene with the Branwyn's Tears is written although it is sexy to be raped. I would like to say it must have been a man with issues who wrote this rape scene that would be found online at forcedfantacy.com, made up site, but LKH is more than capable of writing against women. After the Branwyn's Tears villain is caught by police there is a scene of Merry almost being raped by cops.
It's a good thing LKH has somewhere to put violet sexual fantasies, not such a good thing that they are published.

[chubling.livejournal.com]

What blows my mind is that she seems to get its bad in one book, then toddles off and writes THE EXACT SAME THING in another book and goes, "Well, now its good 8D It's not rape if they love you!"

[knitterleigh.livejournal.com]

"It's a good thing LKH has somewhere to put violet sexual fantasies, not such a good thing that they are published."

Rape fantasies are very common for those who have been sexually abused. It makes a mind wonder........

[queenmeow.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering for a while. If that is true, the way she writes doesn't seem a very healthy way of dealing with it for her or readers. That would explain why both she and Anita go around in emotional circles. If that was true I'd think even less of her for choosing the path of victimizer for Anita.