Question to group re: Narcissus In Chains
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lkh_lashoutsGreetings, all. I've been a LOOOOOOOOOONG time lurker but this is my first post in a while, and I got a question.
I've got a blog where I flog books, and I FINALLY got around to NIC--it is the book that broke me on the Anita Blake series, HARD--and I'm at what I THOUGHT was the infamous Micah-shower-rape scene, but when I was re-reading some of the posts around here, I started getting this funky feeling, because that's not how I remember the book running.
I'm using the e-book edition because it's what I have access to and it makes flogging a lot easier. Here's the sequence of events I have:
Chapter nine: Anita wakes up after the weresnake battle in the knife room with a bunch of other naked people. She seduces Micah into letting her feed on him, as in drink blood, to slake Jean Claude's hunger. There are mentions of Micah being "trapped" between their bodies, so unless this became a threesome no actual sexing occured in chapter 9. Also, may I add that this entire scene MAKES NO SENSE WHATSOEVER and creeps me out to no end.
Chapter 10: Anita is crying in the shower.
Chapter 11: Anita and Micah do have sex, and she tells him no, please don't, no birth control, ect. ect.
However, the first comment on this post here implies that the sex/rape scene happens before Anita is crying in the shower:
the sex scene with Micah is different in the hardcover version. In that version, Anita tells Micah 'no' two or three times, and begs him not to do anything, because she's not on birth control, and he says something to the effect of "I know you want me, i can smell it" and had sex with her anyway...then in the following chapter, Anita sat in the shower crying, because logically 'no-means-no=she was raped'. They edited it later for the paperback to make it more consensual.
In the edition I read, the chapter preceeding the shower scene, Jean Claude pressured Anita into seducing Micah...I think. In the chapter following Anita and Micah having actual sex, 12, Nathaniel is taking Anita home. No shower. I have no way to get my hands on a hardcopy version of the book, and I blocked my memories of reading it the first time. so am I just reading it wrong? Or did something get changed?
I've got a blog where I flog books, and I FINALLY got around to NIC--it is the book that broke me on the Anita Blake series, HARD--and I'm at what I THOUGHT was the infamous Micah-shower-rape scene, but when I was re-reading some of the posts around here, I started getting this funky feeling, because that's not how I remember the book running.
I'm using the e-book edition because it's what I have access to and it makes flogging a lot easier. Here's the sequence of events I have:
Chapter nine: Anita wakes up after the weresnake battle in the knife room with a bunch of other naked people. She seduces Micah into letting her feed on him, as in drink blood, to slake Jean Claude's hunger. There are mentions of Micah being "trapped" between their bodies, so unless this became a threesome no actual sexing occured in chapter 9. Also, may I add that this entire scene MAKES NO SENSE WHATSOEVER and creeps me out to no end.
Chapter 10: Anita is crying in the shower.
Chapter 11: Anita and Micah do have sex, and she tells him no, please don't, no birth control, ect. ect.
However, the first comment on this post here implies that the sex/rape scene happens before Anita is crying in the shower:
the sex scene with Micah is different in the hardcover version. In that version, Anita tells Micah 'no' two or three times, and begs him not to do anything, because she's not on birth control, and he says something to the effect of "I know you want me, i can smell it" and had sex with her anyway...then in the following chapter, Anita sat in the shower crying, because logically 'no-means-no=she was raped'. They edited it later for the paperback to make it more consensual.
In the edition I read, the chapter preceeding the shower scene, Jean Claude pressured Anita into seducing Micah...I think. In the chapter following Anita and Micah having actual sex, 12, Nathaniel is taking Anita home. No shower. I have no way to get my hands on a hardcopy version of the book, and I blocked my memories of reading it the first time. so am I just reading it wrong? Or did something get changed?
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Date: 2012-12-15 04:08 am (UTC)Though given how Jean Claude uses her to feed in chapter nine, and Anita's showering afterwards, I'd say that she got raped twice in a row. Which might be kind of why I remember this being arranged differently.
I am so glad I stopped reading in chapter 10 the first time. My god, this book is terrible.