Gap: not even attempting to deny that it's damn squicky; on a couple of occasions I've considered stopping just for the sake of all the rampant iffiness, but...comparing this to <i>A Dance with Dragons</i>:
I just spent a month of my summer with Ramsay Bolton and Theon 'Reek' Grayjoy, the previous a sick, sadistic psychopath who enjoys flaying as a casual punishment and the hunting and subsequent raping of women as a sport, before he kills and makes furnishings out of their skins; the latter his emaciated, insane-gone victim who has been reduced to eat together with the dogs and even chewing on rats. I was thoroughly disgusted by these scenes, but felt so sorry for Theon that kept reading nonetheless, hoping that he'd find a way to escape his personal inferno. Sometime later in the book, Ramsay married Jeyne Poole, and turned her into an equal, trembling husk of a girl with his s/m antics. Not going to provide detailed descriptions here.
Compared to this, Gap doesn't feel so horrible any more. Granted, I keep grimacing and going 'ewww' every once in a while, but just as well, I want to know if Morn ever manages to flee the dire mess her life has become. Also there's the matter of the two other main players, particularly Angus, now subjected to rather much of the same treatment he used on Morn; I'm interested in their fates and whether 'good' actually wins in this series.
So I won't cease reading yet.
Linna Heartlistener wrote:
I am currently slightly obsessed with The Hunger Games. At least some of you should be too.
Who else is in, or has remotely considered reading it? Two or three people counts as an army: we will start a thread.
I have the first part in my Audible library, purchased some months back. Haven't yet gotten around listening to it, but eventually will. Glanced at the blurb and it seemed interesting.
), you might check out Amazon UK maybe.
