...Best Damn Tapper! *Most Smartest*

I am usually a decorous person, and don't rant. But Skimmer was mentioned, and I just have to rant for a few seconds to someone who actually liked Skimmer before this book. Her character got maulled! I didn't realize quite how much I pitied and was enraged for her until I embarked on an epic reread. She loved Ivy, damn it, and even after getting in prison for her, she realized that Ivy was always going to care for Rachel who, in her oppinion, doesn't give a shit about Ivy. What she did was way beyond out of line, I'm not excusing her, but to herl, it's like Rachel domesticated her and then de-fanged her! Skimmer found so much beauty in the fact that Ivy was a vampire, in the mixing of blood and sex, and Rachel seemed to want Ivy to fix herself to fit Rachel's definitions of morals. I don't know if that made a bit of sense, but it was like: Don't mix sex and blood because I'm not comfortable with it; find some way to shackle your hunger because of what I want because it's the only way it's going to work. And Skimmer made Ivy pay prices in other ways, I'll freely admit that. It's just that Skimmer is painted as screwing Ivy up when Rachel's doing it just as bad *off to continue fic where Ivy and Skimmer talk this crap out; will stop rant now*

And Pierce, just thank you for your awesome summary of everything that is wrong with Gordian Nathaniel Pierce! I would so love to see Rachel deal with her shunning, to learn to live by her own moral code and not have Pierce ride in and save her. Of course, I'm also the person that writes HP fics with Harry learning to use technicallly dark magic but retaining light morals, so you know. And Rachel and Ivy's semidate was beyond fantastic!