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Chilling and sadistic when it's not horribly boring

Revisado: 02-19-24

Every once in awhile you read a book where you know that the author has some really vile inclinations towards sadism and gore porn. Unless you enjoy having protagonists (no, not antiheros in the strict sense) passively watch child murder and dismemberment, I'd suggest you take a pass on this. Also, the VA performance is lackluster, probably due to their revulsion at what they had to read.

As for the story... Unfortunately the non-vile bits are dull and thick with litrpg pedantic stat babble, so there's little respite, there. Lots of "this is what they're thinking of doing and now they're doing it" type chapters.

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Eva Caine is perfect

Revisado: 03-10-22

Great smutty fantasy world stuff. The protagonist gets a little too aggressive (we're talking flirting with r-word territory) at times for my tastes, but that's the author's style with their other books. Aside from that, it's more of the ongoing bawdy tale of Damon, Vel and the others you've come to enjoy.

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A super touching story about Supers Touching.

Revisado: 03-02-22

Alex Ford is perfect.

Anya Merchant has somehow crafted a well written and truly engrossing story of superhero perversity, loss, guilt, family, sex, reaching adulthood, living with abuse and PTSD. Pretty epic scale conflict and inner conflicts, too.

It's a little weird how good it is.

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Tess is great. Changing the characters isn't.

Revisado: 08-24-21

I have no problem with open play, 'SJW' stuff is A-OK, unlike some obvious right-leaning folks are whining about. Also enjoy 'NTR' or cuckolding themes when they're handled with forethought, are consistent with the characters or consensual/logical or at least somehow 'balanced' out. Lorelei in this book does none of that, contrary to what she told Alex in the first book (that she was fine with being monogamous). She claims to have been fine with being just for Alex, but she's obviously not. Alex tells her he's not OK with her being with other men, and that matters to her not at all, despite claiming it is everything to her and sticking to those guns in the first book.

In fact, she does it to him in a seriously callous and destructive way, violates his trust and manipulates him into a guilt-ridden miserable situation to force him to allow her to stray. If that was how you figured Lorelei secretly was in the first book, you read more between the lines than I did (or a great many others, apparently).

Then there's the weird sidelining of characters, strange apathy shown by supposedly loving allies. But the gist of the problem is Lorelei forcing Alex (again, with her supernatural influence) to verbally assent to her being able to have sex with other males 'with some parameters' but those are tossed aside. There is zero fallout for this.

It's unfortunate. The books have been well written except for some very lengthy dialogue bits repeating over and over how this or that is OK (when it isn't) or how Alex feels he's an asshole (when he isn't). The guy really does seem to go through his lives only to be victimized and abused before his untimely end(s). That isn't very pleasant for the readers invested in his bond with his 'loves', sadly.

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Durst and Hvam - Killer Queen Combo

Revisado: 10-06-17

Sarah Beth Durst's beautiful but deadly world of fairies and magic is engrossing -- her women are central to the story, strong and complex without marginalizing or sidelining male characters. Even so, as this 'balance' doesn't always work in real life, so it is with Renthia. Sometimes things happen that are nobody's fault, sometimes they are. Life and relationships between the human aspects in these books flourishes in all its chaotic glory, like blooming vines around a crumbling tower.

I'm sure the written books are delightful to read but SBD's colorful, vibrant world and characters are so perfectly translated by Khristine Hvam's evocative narration that it's hard to imagine experiencing this series any other way.

Looking forward to the next installment, hoping for many more works by this author and this voice actor.

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