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Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)
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I liked the main plot of this one better than the first two. Fae! Interesting! And Zee is awesome.
I had a lot of issues with other things though. I think I would enjoy this series a lot more without the romance, and this book had more of that than the others did. I think that, if the choice is between Adam and Samuel, Mercy made the right choice; that doesn't mean I like Adam. I hate all the werewolf dominance stuff, and Adam has his dominance turned up to eleven. He's controlling and possessive and can control her against her will (and does, immediately after saying he won't; I don't care if he thought it for her own good, that should not be his call) and, oh yeah, will stalk her to the ends of the earth if she tries to get away from him. That's not romantic, it's creepy as hell. He might give her more freedom than Samuel would have, but not by much. I feel like she's giving up a lot of herself for him, and he doesn't seem worth it. Mercy goes on about pretending to be submissive, but it seems like she's actually submitting to him more than she realizes. I'm just really uncomfortable with their relationship.
The rape was another thing I had issues with. The actual event I could deal with; it was horrifying, but that was the point. But I was very uncomfortable with the aftermath, particularly that she was ready for a sexual relationship so soon after it happened. A sexual relationship with someone who, like her rapist, can potentially control her against her will (I don't care if he says he won't). It seemed way too soon for that after such a seriously traumatic event. I don't like rape as a plot device anyway, but rape as a plot device that ends up bringing people together romantically? CREEPY.
The werewolf politics and whatnot just make me generally uncomfortable. I like Warren and Ben, but I could do without all the rest of them and be very happy.
I'll definitely get the next book in the series whenever it is published, but, yeah, I also definitely have a lot of issues with it.
Still fun that it's set where I live though. This one was especially weird since, not only could I picture where everything was, but they were at Tumbleweed. I go to that music festival every year! If this book was real, I would have walked right by Samuel when he was performing that day.
I had a lot of issues with other things though. I think I would enjoy this series a lot more without the romance, and this book had more of that than the others did. I think that, if the choice is between Adam and Samuel, Mercy made the right choice; that doesn't mean I like Adam. I hate all the werewolf dominance stuff, and Adam has his dominance turned up to eleven. He's controlling and possessive and can control her against her will (and does, immediately after saying he won't; I don't care if he thought it for her own good, that should not be his call) and, oh yeah, will stalk her to the ends of the earth if she tries to get away from him. That's not romantic, it's creepy as hell. He might give her more freedom than Samuel would have, but not by much. I feel like she's giving up a lot of herself for him, and he doesn't seem worth it. Mercy goes on about pretending to be submissive, but it seems like she's actually submitting to him more than she realizes. I'm just really uncomfortable with their relationship.
The rape was another thing I had issues with. The actual event I could deal with; it was horrifying, but that was the point. But I was very uncomfortable with the aftermath, particularly that she was ready for a sexual relationship so soon after it happened. A sexual relationship with someone who, like her rapist, can potentially control her against her will (I don't care if he says he won't). It seemed way too soon for that after such a seriously traumatic event. I don't like rape as a plot device anyway, but rape as a plot device that ends up bringing people together romantically? CREEPY.
The werewolf politics and whatnot just make me generally uncomfortable. I like Warren and Ben, but I could do without all the rest of them and be very happy.
I'll definitely get the next book in the series whenever it is published, but, yeah, I also definitely have a lot of issues with it.
Still fun that it's set where I live though. This one was especially weird since, not only could I picture where everything was, but they were at Tumbleweed. I go to that music festival every year! If this book was real, I would have walked right by Samuel when he was performing that day.
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January 27, 2008
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January 28, 2008
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January 28, 2008
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January 28, 2008
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Nov 02, 2012 09:53PM
I agree that there was too much in the romance area. I hear editors request it be put into books to attract more readers, but I just flip past those scenes. I also agree that Mercy's 'recovery' was wrong & too soon. Absolutely did NOT agree with the strong character becoming meek & the pretense of 'acting submissive'. Glad I am not the only one. I stopped reading the series after this book.
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Disagree with you on the romance but am in 100% agreement about the handling of the rape. I wish authors would just not use at a plot device because it's rarely handled well. With all the research UF and PNR writers put into their books, you'd think that they would talk to a rape crisis counsellor as part of the overall research for their books. Who has sex with a new partner a week after being raped???
Towards the comments on how she handled the aftermath if the rape, they continue right into the next book where this one ends. She does have a realistic handling to the situation.
I was also thinking that Mercy has become more submissive than the past books. In the first two she would pretend to please them, and then do whatever she wanted anyway. In this one she definitely let them get away with anything.
Oh, but you should add spoiler tags. You just gave away the two most important surprises to this book.
Yeah the dominance stuff is why I tend to not like werewolfs as love interests. And I don't like vampires either which means that I do the opposite of shipping with many UF books - hoping against all reason that despite all the love interest signs for once she won't get together with the domineering were / creepy murdering vamp.Though as has been said the last sentence looks like the fade to black beginning of a sex scene but actually isn't. I wouldn't have ended the book that way, it doesn't look like a cliffhanger. But oh well.
I feel like I could just copy and pasta this as my own review. And yeah, the Werewolfs misogyny and douche-bro culture really bothers the heck out for me.
