The Hollows, done and done!

[fembuck]

So, I finally finished the series! I feel like I don't know what I'm going to do with my days now that I'm not obsessively reading these books. I might actually be able to get some work done (actually, probably not since that's what I'm avoiding doing by writing this message! God, I don't want to mark essays, they's gon' be bad! They's gon' be so bad!)

Thoughts:

1. Marshall equals fail. Don't bring him back, Kim! The parts with him in ODW were like unreadable for me. The first part of the book is like a blur to me, because I was too busy cringing and being bored as fuck to register what I was reading. I don't even know why he disappeared halfway throught the book, I'm just happy he did.

2. The Ivy/David hints made me want to puke.

I'm gonna be honest and say that I just want Ivy with a girl cause there's already an overwhelming abundence of het in the series and I want some GoGA (even if it's not Ivy/Rachel). I was cool with Ivy/Skimmer. I actually like Ivy/Skimmer quite a bit. Like, at least throw the femslashers a bone and give us Ivy with a female please. Television has already presented us with too many bisexual female characters who end up with a dude. Let a lady win for once, please!

Also, part of my hate comes from the fact that I just really don't like David [RPattz]at all[/RP]. Ivy/Rynn is more tolerable to me, in that it only makes me a little queasy instead of on the verge of spewing, but if the Ravy is going to be drawn out, please let it be Ivy/F while Rachel chases after some tool that's clearly wrong for her? Please, Kim? Please? *is so scared that I'm going to have to read Ivy/Davidness in White Witch, Black Curse* I'm begging, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to sit through some puke inducing fuckery in Book 7.

3. Oh, Kim. You giveth and you taketh away. First the orgasm!biting scene of awesome, followed by the coffee cart scene of Let's be platonic friends. *sigh*

Actually, I don't hate where Rachel and Ivy are at this point in time, because I don't really believe they'll be able to maintain this equilibrium for long. Ivy is still totally in love with her and Rachel still has conflicted feelings about her feelings for Ivy. It's pretty much the same as they were before, only Rachel isn't constantly sticking a rusty pin into the open wound that is their 'friendship' by asking to be bitten (and then not putting out) all the time.

4. Ivy continues to be a dreamy motherfucker. Seriously. Lounging around all sexy like reading her magazines about how to leave your shadow begging and breathing. Slinking around scaring any man that comes near Rachel. OMG, the bag of stuff that she put together for Rachel's trip into the ever-after = awwwww x 1000. She's such a good girlfriend. OMG, the sign warning Rachel that she's leaving hallowed ground (she knows Rachel's an idiot but loves her anyway).

Also, Ivy's heart break at Rachel covering up her bite marks made me all misty eyed. The whole, 'you're ashamed of me' conversation was sad-making. Especially since if anyone should be ashamed of anyone it should Ivy being ashamed of Ms. Buses Won't Pick Me Up Anymore Morgan. Her joy at realizing that Rachel was staying with her because she likes her and not because of wanting blood trysts was also a really beautiful moment.

5. Ceri x Quen = cute. Trent = douche.

6. Alice Morgan is pretty fucking hilarious. I really loved how she was all, "Of course you're vampire roomate bites you! How else is she suppose to show she cares?" about the Rachel/Ivy kitchen biting debacle. I also think that Rachel should sit down with her mom on a regular basis (as well as Al now) and learn how to be a good witch. Seriously, it seems to be like everyone is better trained than her and she's just lucky she's got demon blood in her cause she'd have died years ago without it.

7. I like that Rachel is trying to be smarter, even though she hasn't really succeeded in being any smarter. It's good to have goals.

And, it looks like I'm out of things to ramble about now so ... *thinks of other ways to procrastinate*

Comments

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

Skimmer will apparently make an appearance in book 7 so we'll see.

Well, since the goal of the books seems to be to like anally rape Ivy at least once, Skimmer will probably get out of jail, declare that she will change her ways for Ivy, they have hot makeup sex (which we don't see, but Rachel eludes to bitchily because she's jealous but won't admit it) and then Skimmer will die and either become a cold undead that Ivy can't love, or just a corpse, which again Ivy can't love. Ivy will be miserable, and the trend of the last 6 books continues.

Who's bitter? Certainly you can't be looking at me?

i don't like Rynn with Ivy at all. no matter what Ivy says, it still smacks of her being taken advantaged of.

I completely agree with this. It's just Piscary all over again. Piscary was charming too, and he was an evil bastard. Just as Rynn likely is. In her vamp guide, K.H. even says the more charming an undead is the more wary you should be. Rynn/Ivy just seems like a way to degrade and torture her more and I was over the Ivy Misery Train before it even begun. It cannot end well. If Ivy really was just using him to practice so that she could be ready for Rachel, then fine. But do NOT make her smitten or fall in love with him. It will only lead to more pain, and quite frankly she's had more than her share.

I hate David, whereas I don't really feel one way or the other about Rynn yet. But both relationships are horrible options. Horrible.

through the idiocy of Rachel/Marshall and Rachel running scared again.

Ugh. Just ugh. I skipped more of the Rachel/Marshall stuff after Rachel's visit to Alice. I just couldn't handle it.

i can so see her doing that and Rachel's eyes widening and being secretly turned on.

THIS!

i was totally thinking what a great girlfriend she is and how blind Rachel is. who else would be thoughtful and caring enough to do this for her?!

Oh, I know. Actually I have to say, Rachel's reaction to the sign thing made me want to punch her in the face. Like that she had the gall to be offended just because Ivy rightly called her stupidity by putting it up there. The fact that she disregarded the sign and ended up being attacked by a demon because of it, just really made me want to poke her multiple times with a sharp object.

This whole book was really the book of Ivy being a dreamy motherfucker. It has been established that NO ONE ELSE IS CAPABLE OF PUTTING UP WITH RACHEL'S SHIT!

why she isn't learning witchery from her mom i don't know.

It's because it would be the smart, sensible thing to do, and we all know that Rachel is incapable of the doing anything that's smart or sensible.

not letting Ivy bite her 'cause she's afraid of being bound is just silly; as if Ivy'd bind her deliberately. Ivy loves/respects Rachel as she is (bumbling idiocy and all). she wouldn't want to make Rachel a puppet.

This. I mean, Rachel's reasoning about not being bound is really incredibly insulting to Ivy. Ivy has literally put her body and her soul on the line for Rachel, more than once, and by saying that she's afraid Ivy will bind her, Rachel is effectively saying that she wouldn't put herself on the line body and soul for Ivy. She's shutting out the one person who would literally do ANYTHING for her, but then she'll go and risk her life in the ever-after for the likes of Trent. *throws hands up in the air*

And honestly, if Ivy bound Rachel, it would probably be a GOOD thing. It would mean that other vamps couldn't manipulate Rachel's scar, and Ivy being Ivy ensures that as long as she has a soul that Ivy would never abuse that bond. Rachel would be safer bound to Ivy. And it would also give her an incentive to try and find a way to save Ivy's soul (instead of just bitching about how hard it is) since it would also ensure that she would also have a loving Ivy, instead of an undead one, who would NOT manipulate her.

Honestly, I kind of want Ivy to find a nice girl in Book 7, and I want Rachel to just have to see how shitty her life would be without Ivy there looking after her.

Sorry, I rambled a bit. Thinking about it is getting me all worked up again!

[madndizzee.livejournal.com]

Ivy will be miserable, and the trend of the last 6 books continues.

yep, most probable scenario.

Sorry, I rambled a bit. Thinking about it is getting me all worked up again!

lol no worries. your rambles are insightful and amusing so carry on. not the good kind of worked up either. ;) well, you could fix it with your fics hehe. ahem yes, not so subtle hint to write more. :P