Ever After by Kim Harrison
Apr. 25th, 2014 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaI feel like I should write a review for this but I don't really feel like it? Here are a couple thoughts:
+ Still not enough Ivy and Jenks. But I did love that in the middle of the battle with Ku'Sox Rachel found herself considering a possible way to save Ivy.
+ I ship Rachel/Trent so I enjoyed the focus on them for the most part. I loved them working together. I loved the final chapter - Rachel giving him back his fingers, him inviting her into his most private place, them finally acknowledging their feelings for each other, them talking and being honest and how they went for coffee as friends. It all worked for me.
- I also enjoyed what we got of Rachel/Al which is another relationship I love. I loved their first attempt with his wedding rings and how that whole thing played out.
- I loved the Trent x Rachel x Al trio at the end and how they bound themselves together (well, them through Rachel) in order to defeat Ku'Sox. And I liked Al popping up in the last chapter. They're a fun trio.
- That said I also found myself rather annoyed at times with how Rachel thought of both Trent and Al (especially Trent). It kind of felt like they were being woobified to be honest. Like she was just too excusing of their past wrongs and feeling sorry for them, and for her own negative reactions to them at times. It was just too much at times. I love them both but I don't need Rachel making excuses for them and thinking about how misunderstood and poorly treated by life they are.
- Also one part that kind of pissed me off was when Trent was trying to convince Rachel not to kill Nick and the first part of his argument went - "I want one pure thing in my life. I want one thing I can point to and say 'That is good, and it's a part of me.'" ... wtf?! First, wouldn't Lucy be that considering as a child she is 'pure' and innocent and is literally a part of him? Second, no wtf!? So Rachel's first thought should be how it affects Trent? This is about what Trent wants/needs?
Third, Rachel's reaction to this pretty much encapsulates the whole problem I was having above where it feels like Rachel is woobifying him. She reacts by "tearing up" and thinking "He thought I was good?" It just annoyed me.
The second part of his argument - about her 'not letting her desire for revenge give him the power to make her what she doesn't want to be' - which is a good point.
+ Tying into the above - Al's reaction to Ceri's death. He certainly has every right to grieve and as his friend it makes sense for Rachel to feel sorry for him. But I feel like the book, and Rachel, really swept under the rug the fact that Ceri was his slave for a thousand years. She may have loved him at one point but when she died she hated and feared him. He spent centuries torturing, raping and terrorising her.
+ Ceri and Pierce's deaths surprised me. I forgot about them until I got to that part again. Pierce I don't really care about but I ... regret Ceri's death and wish it hadn't happened.
+ I enjoyed all the stuff with Bis and the gargoyles.
+ I was annoyed that Trent didn't offer to take the smut from the curse Rachel needed to do to heal his fingers.
+ Still not enough Ivy and Jenks. But I did love that in the middle of the battle with Ku'Sox Rachel found herself considering a possible way to save Ivy.
+ I ship Rachel/Trent so I enjoyed the focus on them for the most part. I loved them working together. I loved the final chapter - Rachel giving him back his fingers, him inviting her into his most private place, them finally acknowledging their feelings for each other, them talking and being honest and how they went for coffee as friends. It all worked for me.
- I also enjoyed what we got of Rachel/Al which is another relationship I love. I loved their first attempt with his wedding rings and how that whole thing played out.
- I loved the Trent x Rachel x Al trio at the end and how they bound themselves together (well, them through Rachel) in order to defeat Ku'Sox. And I liked Al popping up in the last chapter. They're a fun trio.
- That said I also found myself rather annoyed at times with how Rachel thought of both Trent and Al (especially Trent). It kind of felt like they were being woobified to be honest. Like she was just too excusing of their past wrongs and feeling sorry for them, and for her own negative reactions to them at times. It was just too much at times. I love them both but I don't need Rachel making excuses for them and thinking about how misunderstood and poorly treated by life they are.
- Also one part that kind of pissed me off was when Trent was trying to convince Rachel not to kill Nick and the first part of his argument went - "I want one pure thing in my life. I want one thing I can point to and say 'That is good, and it's a part of me.'" ... wtf?! First, wouldn't Lucy be that considering as a child she is 'pure' and innocent and is literally a part of him? Second, no wtf!? So Rachel's first thought should be how it affects Trent? This is about what Trent wants/needs?
Third, Rachel's reaction to this pretty much encapsulates the whole problem I was having above where it feels like Rachel is woobifying him. She reacts by "tearing up" and thinking "He thought I was good?" It just annoyed me.
The second part of his argument - about her 'not letting her desire for revenge give him the power to make her what she doesn't want to be' - which is a good point.
+ Tying into the above - Al's reaction to Ceri's death. He certainly has every right to grieve and as his friend it makes sense for Rachel to feel sorry for him. But I feel like the book, and Rachel, really swept under the rug the fact that Ceri was his slave for a thousand years. She may have loved him at one point but when she died she hated and feared him. He spent centuries torturing, raping and terrorising her.
+ Ceri and Pierce's deaths surprised me. I forgot about them until I got to that part again. Pierce I don't really care about but I ... regret Ceri's death and wish it hadn't happened.
+ I enjoyed all the stuff with Bis and the gargoyles.
+ I was annoyed that Trent didn't offer to take the smut from the curse Rachel needed to do to heal his fingers.
