6.) Also, I disagree with you about Mercy being low on the food chain. I mean, yeah, SHE HERSELF lacks the power/ability/personality to rise through the ranks but you're failing to account for her status as an extension of her powerful men-folk!
For example, in the book I read Mercy stomps around and is a bitch to the only other woman that I remember her interacting with. She justifies that as being In Charge of her life and Being Better Than That Skank Over There... Except, she makes a point of mentioning that she is a small, lone coyote among giant wolves. They might want to hurt/kill her - and the blonde I ranted about earlier certain seemed to want to hurt her for being an unsympathetic bitch - but Mercy was raised as the adoptive daughter of the alpha (of the United States, I think). And, since women are extensions of their men-folk in this series, hurting her wold be like challenging them. Mercy doesn't have to rely on her own strengths or personality or cunning for her standing among the werewolves. She lives in the happy shadow of her adoptive father who will KILL anyone who lays a hand/paw/whatever on her. Something that the poor, blonde werewolf must take into account.
7.) Mercy's boyfriend, in the one I read, was also the leader of a smaller werewolf pack. Again, she got all access passes to werewolf stuff and to run her mouth & be threatening because, again, she is an extension of him and thus, he will KILL people who are mean to her.
8.) There is something about a vampire in a Scooby Doo mystery machine. Since the author doesn't seem to view/present him as a nutter, I dislike him on general principle. At the climax of the book I read, he shows up out of the blue and in the nick of time to help her... and KILL the meanies who were mean to her. (Is this a theme? I think so.)
9.) Also, as a matter of full disclosure, I *hate* the bastards getting away with murder because they're the Good Guys trope. HATE IT WITH THE STRENGTH OF A THOUSAND EXPLODING SUNS!
10.) What's UF without the threat of rape? It's not like men are ever not in the mood. Or decent-to-awesome human beings. Or not predatory sex machines. /snark
11.) I HATE the sounds of the ex-wife. It's awful that every ex ever has to be unpleasant and unreasonable and the WORST MOTHER EVER. Never mind that if she was really the worst, most evil thing to walk the earth, the courts wouldn't let her have custody, especially since Jess sounds old enough to have a say in who she lives with. If Jess is spending so much time at her mom's it's because she expressed some interest in being there.
12.) But if the Ex wasn't an Evil and Vindictive Harpy Who Doesn't Understand the (male) love interest's manpain where would the author shove the hurt/comfort? And the healing sex? And the magical cock/vagina? *tisks at you* You've got to think these things through, Rat-Lady!
13.) I have to admit, the narrative voice and the creepiness seeping in around the edges of it didn't appeal to me either.
....I'm still going to stand by my assessment, however.
(And yes, I had all the feels while reading your sporking. Possibly because you're the first person I've run across who read a Mercy book and *also* didn't like it. I was beginning to suspect that I was a minority of one.)
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Date: 2013-02-06 08:56 am (UTC)6.) Also, I disagree with you about Mercy being low on the food chain. I mean, yeah, SHE HERSELF lacks the power/ability/personality to rise through the ranks but you're failing to account for her status as an extension of her powerful men-folk!
For example, in the book I read Mercy stomps around and is a bitch to the only other woman that I remember her interacting with. She justifies that as being In Charge of her life and Being Better Than That Skank Over There... Except, she makes a point of mentioning that she is a small, lone coyote among giant wolves. They might want to hurt/kill her - and the blonde I ranted about earlier certain seemed to want to hurt her for being an unsympathetic bitch - but Mercy was raised as the adoptive daughter of the alpha (of the United States, I think). And, since women are extensions of their men-folk in this series, hurting her wold be like challenging them. Mercy doesn't have to rely on her own strengths or personality or cunning for her standing among the werewolves. She lives in the happy shadow of her adoptive father who will KILL anyone who lays a hand/paw/whatever on her. Something that the poor, blonde werewolf must take into account.
7.) Mercy's boyfriend, in the one I read, was also the leader of a smaller werewolf pack. Again, she got all access passes to werewolf stuff and to run her mouth & be threatening because, again, she is an extension of him and thus, he will KILL people who are mean to her.
8.) There is something about a vampire in a Scooby Doo mystery machine. Since the author doesn't seem to view/present him as a nutter, I dislike him on general principle. At the climax of the book I read, he shows up out of the blue and in the nick of time to help her... and KILL the meanies who were mean to her. (Is this a theme? I think so.)
9.) Also, as a matter of full disclosure, I *hate* the bastards getting away with murder because they're the Good Guys trope. HATE IT WITH THE STRENGTH OF A THOUSAND EXPLODING SUNS!
10.) What's UF without the threat of rape? It's not like men are ever not in the mood. Or decent-to-awesome human beings. Or not predatory sex machines. /snark
11.) I HATE the sounds of the ex-wife. It's awful that every ex ever has to be unpleasant and unreasonable and the WORST MOTHER EVER. Never mind that if she was really the worst, most evil thing to walk the earth, the courts wouldn't let her have custody, especially since Jess sounds old enough to have a say in who she lives with. If Jess is spending so much time at her mom's it's because she expressed some interest in being there.
12.) But if the Ex wasn't an Evil and Vindictive Harpy Who Doesn't Understand the (male) love interest's manpain where would the author shove the hurt/comfort? And the healing sex? And the magical cock/vagina? *tisks at you* You've got to think these things through, Rat-Lady!
13.) I have to admit, the narrative voice and the creepiness seeping in around the edges of it didn't appeal to me either.
....I'm still going to stand by my assessment, however.
(And yes, I had all the feels while reading your sporking. Possibly because you're the first person I've run across who read a Mercy book and *also* didn't like it. I was beginning to suspect that I was a minority of one.)