Mother of God. Your comment aside, Nathan, it appears that that’s her intended audience–tweens, or at the most, very young teens. WORSE, she apparently thinks that non-consensual sex (with the alpha in wolf form, SIGH, of course) is just a wonderful part of the typical dating ritual. For a “bad boy,” with whom, of course, the raped heroine falls in love.
I usually just throw up in my throat a little. For this one, I may need to call to the porcelain God. I know that LBC is just for covers, but…this is disgusting.
It’s the result of mainstream acceptance of Edward/Bella or Gray/Anastasia relationships as cool. In real life I have seen only hurt and tragedy from such relationships.
Wow, you know vampires in real life? Do they weally, weally sparkle like that?
(On a less frivolous note: I despise the entire “plotline” of that girl, Bella, and her “males.” The entire book kills off any progress that women have made, in the public perception, by decades. Hell, by scores. A girl in HS, has NO hobbies. No interests. She’s not smart, or good at anything, not really. She has NO value–until she’s desired by Alpha males. THAT is when she has value. She gives up EVERYTHING to go be with some Alpha male vampire that looks like a teenager but is really hundreds of years old. She gets knocked up pretty pronto. Before that, when she has ‘broken up’ with him, she sits in her bedroom, FOR. A. YEAR. and sulks. WT&^%$#@! is up with that? If I’d sat in my room for a MONTH over a damned boy, vamp,shifter or otherwise, my parents would have yanked me out of there and sent me to private school, just to get my head out of my gluteus maximus. She gives up SCHOOL and an education, so she can BE with mr. wonderful. What a load of old shite that is. The shameful thing? That grown WOMEN loved this book. SHAMEFUL.)
I completely agree. Actually read the first book, was creeped out by the stalking, (sitting in her room at night watching her sleep, while she’s unaware he’s there. What the hell? How is that “romantic”?), and high-handed ways he had of “protecting” her. Then the second book where there is page after page of blankness since she feels like nothing without him, and finding ways to put her life in danger just to gear his voice in her head. Stopped reading those books forever after skimming a few pages of that one. Thank goodness they were loaned to me and I hadn’t wasted any of my own money. Plus, how does a girl with no apparent personality, who doesn’t seem to care about anyone but herself, (poor girl. She had to leave the exciting big city of Phoenix, and Seattle just doesn’t compare?!??!) have so many friends?
oh no there’s more: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4899062.Darlene_Gibbs
Hey, no peeking!
Mother of God. Your comment aside, Nathan, it appears that that’s her intended audience–tweens, or at the most, very young teens. WORSE, she apparently thinks that non-consensual sex (with the alpha in wolf form, SIGH, of course) is just a wonderful part of the typical dating ritual. For a “bad boy,” with whom, of course, the raped heroine falls in love.
I usually just throw up in my throat a little. For this one, I may need to call to the porcelain God. I know that LBC is just for covers, but…this is disgusting.
It’s the result of mainstream acceptance of Edward/Bella or Gray/Anastasia relationships as cool. In real life I have seen only hurt and tragedy from such relationships.
Naaman:
Wow, you know vampires in real life? Do they weally, weally sparkle like that?
(On a less frivolous note: I despise the entire “plotline” of that girl, Bella, and her “males.” The entire book kills off any progress that women have made, in the public perception, by decades. Hell, by scores. A girl in HS, has NO hobbies. No interests. She’s not smart, or good at anything, not really. She has NO value–until she’s desired by Alpha males. THAT is when she has value. She gives up EVERYTHING to go be with some Alpha male vampire that looks like a teenager but is really hundreds of years old. She gets knocked up pretty pronto. Before that, when she has ‘broken up’ with him, she sits in her bedroom, FOR. A. YEAR. and sulks. WT&^%$#@! is up with that? If I’d sat in my room for a MONTH over a damned boy, vamp,shifter or otherwise, my parents would have yanked me out of there and sent me to private school, just to get my head out of my gluteus maximus. She gives up SCHOOL and an education, so she can BE with mr. wonderful. What a load of old shite that is. The shameful thing? That grown WOMEN loved this book. SHAMEFUL.)
/rant.
I completely agree. Actually read the first book, was creeped out by the stalking, (sitting in her room at night watching her sleep, while she’s unaware he’s there. What the hell? How is that “romantic”?), and high-handed ways he had of “protecting” her. Then the second book where there is page after page of blankness since she feels like nothing without him, and finding ways to put her life in danger just to gear his voice in her head. Stopped reading those books forever after skimming a few pages of that one. Thank goodness they were loaned to me and I hadn’t wasted any of my own money. Plus, how does a girl with no apparent personality, who doesn’t seem to care about anyone but herself, (poor girl. She had to leave the exciting big city of Phoenix, and Seattle just doesn’t compare?!??!) have so many friends?
Naw, they’re really gothic dark. Only the deluded see them as sparkly.
So what you’re saying is that the cover is actually the least offensive thing about the book.
Gah!! I’m glad I didn’t do any research on this one. In wolf-form?!?!