30 days of books: Day Seven

Day 07 – Least favorite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise

I’m going to have to go with the same thing that I’ve seen a few other people point out – where rape or torture, usually of a female, but not always, is used as a plot device, especially to give another character motivation for revenge.

Even when it works in the context of the book, it always sets my teeth on edge.  Because it often just feels like a short-cut, and often feels almost off-hand.  And characters often recover very easily from something that should have shattered their lives.

Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels books are guilty of this – but I add a caveat.  The characters who go through these situations do suffer repercussions from them, and they are used as more than just a short-cut and make sense in the greater context of the world of the books.  But even with that, it still sets my teeth on edge to read.

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Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

30 days of books: Day Seven

Day 07 – Least favorite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise

I’m going to have to go with the same thing that I’ve seen a few other people point out – where rape or torture, usually of a female, but not always, is used as a plot device, especially to give another character motivation for revenge.

Even when it works in the context of the book, it always sets my teeth on edge.  Because it often just feels like a short-cut, and often feels almost off-hand.  And characters often recover very easily from something that should have shattered their lives.

Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels books are guilty of this – but I add a caveat.  The characters who go through these situations do suffer repercussions from them, and they are used as more than just a short-cut and make sense in the greater context of the world of the books.  But even with that, it still sets my teeth on edge to read.

( Read the rest of this entry » )

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.