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1.0 out of 5 stars
Emo Rape Fantasy,
By Judah (Terre Haute In USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shape-Changers (Mass Market Paperback)
Our heroine (Alix) is abducted along with her prince within the first chapter by the savage, misunderstood Cheysuli. A persecuted mysterious 'demon' race who can shift into animal forms and communicate with animals. If you're thinking kinky... there's none of that. The rape is heavily implied, nothing explicit. No sex scenes at all.
For the first eighty pages, the warrior who captures Alix and her prince, Finn, threatens to rape Alix to shut her up. His brother Duncan plays good cop to Finn's bad cop. Finn doesn't even stop when he finds out Alix is related to him. Then get this -- the Cheysuli decide to release the prince to try and curry favor with him when he becomes king. Uh.. ransom? Blackmail-rescind the genocide law against your people? No. Uh, just let him go. He won't come back with cavalry ten pages later... Around page 75 Alix is rescued by her prince (who does come back with cavalry 10 pages later), and goes home with him. Finally I thought the undertones of rape might be over. No. Here is a quote from page 80, book two (by the noble prince), "Then perhaps he [Finn] has the right of it, what else can a man do, when a women defies him, save force her?" Bleh. The entire novel is rape (because I feel like it), rape (predestined prophecy flavor), 'have my babies woman,' and deus ex daring rescue battle. And 'gainsay.' Can't forget the author's favorite word, on every fifth page. The historic back story of the heroine's mother who ran away to avoid a loveless rape-marriage, and the rape/genocide of the Cheysuli race also reinforce the rapine theme. Too much might-makes-right brutish morality. Later in the book there are scenes with armies. Not one guard is described. The main characters encounter individual soldiers three separate times. Uh... what armies? Please, don't torture yourself. This is a bad gothic romance set in a fantasy world, the male characters are brutes, and the heroine makes stupid decisions that should have terrible consequences (but don't). My recommendation -- don't read it.
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