I have to thank you again for managing to get through this and warning us. This review does it, I am officially not finishing this book.
Mostly, I just thought "where did her spark go, for God's sake? She's more dull than flat 7up..."
*sigh* That kind of insane energy and spirit were really the only things Rachel had going for her. God knows smarts and introspection weren't her strong suits. Nice to know that the last decent thing about the character is shat on in this.
As you can probably expect, the intimate moments are just *shivers* god-awful.
And this sentence more than any other has convinced me to avoid this book like the plague. After Rachel's detest for him at the beginning I was hoping that she was finally going to make a smart romantic decision and STAY AWAY. Hearing that it's the same old bullshit doesn't surprise me, but it does disgust me enough to leave well enough alone. I didn't even make it through the 'pulling' scene with Marshall, and I didn't mind Marshall (he was boring, but whatever). The INTENSE FIERY LOATHING I feel for Pierce would make this unbearable.
Ivy is an afterthought.
As usual. I've never before seen a 'best friend' character so marginalized and underused. Ever. Ever. It boggles my mind, truly.
Rachel does finally admit attraction and feelings "more than sisterly that she can't pursue".
This just honestly pisses me off. I want to boot Kim in the box, I really do. It's like just make up your fucking mind already. Either kill Ravy dead for good and have them be honest to god friends so that I can just ship them in my head/fic. Or just fucking go there. Rachel must be the stupidest person on the planet not to be able to tell how she fucking feels about a person she goddamn lives with after like five fucking years of knowing her. Jesus Christ, it's too much for a sane person to handle. GROW SOME BALLS COCK-BLOCK! MAKE A CERTAIN SEGMENT THE READERSHIP UNHAPPY (hets or homos) AND JUST MOVE ON!
Al is fairly entertaining, but fuck it, I don't want Rachel to cozy up to him, he's not in a fucking grey moral area, he's at the black end of the spectrum.
Word. I'm tired of Al and the psuedo redemption arc. I don't understand why I'm supposed to like him at all. Cause he can fake a british accent? It's like, how a character like Skimmer gets written off of pure, irredeemable fucking evil yet Al gets all of this 'he's not such a bad guy'/necessary evil bullshit pisses me off beyond belief.
Trent is being a bad guy in this one, which is how I like him the most. Of course, in the end, it's not his fault, as usual. Huge whatever.
Same thing goes for Trent as for Al. It's like, I don't mind Trent when he's being a bad guy/dickhead. Just don't try to schmoopify him like he's Draco Malfoy is fanfiction written by a 13 year old. I don't understand why characters like this get the benefit of the doubt and chance after chance when others are treated like sin pissed all over them for doing morally less repugnant things. Actually that's not true, it's because Kim thinks her morally ambiguous MALE characters are hot shit and wants to have her stand in Rachel get is sexish situations with them. Cause no woman can resist a tight ass and a british accent, even if they are ghosts, and demons and elf nazis.
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Date: 2010-02-25 02:49 am (UTC)Mostly, I just thought "where did her spark go, for God's sake? She's more dull than flat 7up..."
*sigh* That kind of insane energy and spirit were really the only things Rachel had going for her. God knows smarts and introspection weren't her strong suits. Nice to know that the last decent thing about the character is shat on in this.
As you can probably expect, the intimate moments are just *shivers* god-awful.
And this sentence more than any other has convinced me to avoid this book like the plague. After Rachel's detest for him at the beginning I was hoping that she was finally going to make a smart romantic decision and STAY AWAY. Hearing that it's the same old bullshit doesn't surprise me, but it does disgust me enough to leave well enough alone. I didn't even make it through the 'pulling' scene with Marshall, and I didn't mind Marshall (he was boring, but whatever). The INTENSE FIERY LOATHING I feel for Pierce would make this unbearable.
Ivy is an afterthought.
As usual. I've never before seen a 'best friend' character so marginalized and underused. Ever. Ever. It boggles my mind, truly.
Rachel does finally admit attraction and feelings "more than sisterly that she can't pursue".
This just honestly pisses me off. I want to boot Kim in the box, I really do. It's like just make up your fucking mind already. Either kill Ravy dead for good and have them be honest to god friends so that I can just ship them in my head/fic. Or just fucking go there. Rachel must be the stupidest person on the planet not to be able to tell how she fucking feels about a person she goddamn lives with after like five fucking years of knowing her. Jesus Christ, it's too much for a sane person to handle. GROW SOME BALLS COCK-BLOCK! MAKE A CERTAIN SEGMENT THE READERSHIP UNHAPPY (hets or homos) AND JUST MOVE ON!
Al is fairly entertaining, but fuck it, I don't want Rachel to cozy up to him, he's not in a fucking grey moral area, he's at the black end of the spectrum.
Word. I'm tired of Al and the psuedo redemption arc. I don't understand why I'm supposed to like him at all. Cause he can fake a british accent? It's like, how a character like Skimmer gets written off of pure, irredeemable fucking evil yet Al gets all of this 'he's not such a bad guy'/necessary evil bullshit pisses me off beyond belief.
Trent is being a bad guy in this one, which is how I like him the most. Of course, in the end, it's not his fault, as usual. Huge whatever.
Same thing goes for Trent as for Al. It's like, I don't mind Trent when he's being a bad guy/dickhead. Just don't try to schmoopify him like he's Draco Malfoy is fanfiction written by a 13 year old. I don't understand why characters like this get the benefit of the doubt and chance after chance when others are treated like sin pissed all over them for doing morally less repugnant things. Actually that's not true, it's because Kim thinks her morally ambiguous MALE characters are hot shit and wants to have her stand in Rachel get is sexish situations with them. Cause no woman can resist a tight ass and a british accent, even if they are ghosts, and demons and elf nazis.
All I can say is stay away.
I shall thanks to you. I shall.