Er, no I didn't mean that as a rec. I liked the first two Kushiel books all right except for the part where she erased all her fictional Jews by making them followers of "Yeshua" (which was horribly offensive) but there's way way way too much grotesquely detailed nonconsensual sex that does not in any way resemble a good force/rape fantasy in those books and there's way way way too much grotesque abuse of one character to the point where I wonder how he gets out of bed in the morning. I do not actually think they are very good representations of kink either, though I realise I'm in the minority on that one.
The third and fourth books were unbearably awful (I couldn't finish the fourth one) in terms of general not-triggery but just plain unpleasant badness. I think they appeal to a certain mindset which I probably lost 20 years ago.
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Date: 2010-07-02 04:12 (UTC)The third and fourth books were unbearably awful (I couldn't finish the fourth one) in terms of general not-triggery but just plain unpleasant badness. I think they appeal to a certain mindset which I probably lost 20 years ago.