Ever After by Kim Harrison

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Ever After by Kim Harrison

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This might not be drunk reviewing, but it sure ain't sober reviewing either.

So it turns out this series only has two? Something like that – two books left. Which blows my mind, since I have been reading this off and on since 2005, and thinking back, it's like my relationship with this series encapsulates my relationship with new millennium paranormal fantasy. I was charmed by it; I was frustrated that it wasn't higher quality; I felt strangely guilty for liking it in all its embarrassments and silliness; I felt angry for feeling guilty for liking this explicitly women's literature; I constructed elaborate Doylist feminist theories; I nominated it for Yuletide; I was bored by it; I made scouring, screaming fun of it (extra! Vaginal! Muscles! Ahahaha); I came to associate it with a certain friend, and that tasted a little bitter; I gave up on it; I came back to it carelessly, because giving up meant I could thoughtlessly enjoy; I read it in sickness for comfort, in pain for help, in travel for distraction; I stopped tracking its publication dates and plot convolutions, and merely let the next book fall from the sky into my lap when it would; I began to care again, or to notice caring, like getting back with an ex and finding that all the cynicism has been pounded out of you in their absence; I knew what was going to happen 300 pages before it did, but still waited for it and, in the moment, exhaled softly; I let myself have whatever emotional reactions would come, unjudgingly, because they would come anyway; I heard it is coming to an end and thought, no, but I'm not done with you.



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[applenym]

What a great summation of my own relationship with paranormal fantasy (and this series in particular).

I haven't read the last...two? Maybe three? of this series. Perhaps I'll pick them up again, now that I'm not quite so invested in the story.