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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote2009-08-10 03:03 pm

Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, Queen of the Darkness, Dreams Made Flesh

Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels, #1) Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Excerpts from a stream of consciousness transcript as I read this series:

"So that's his brother? Ah, right, his brother with wings. . . . Saetan Sa Diablo? For serious? . . . Magical cockring of Obedience! . . . Aww, that's actually pretty cute. Family togetherness, d'aww. . . . Ew! Ew Ew! He just circumcised someone with his teeth! . . . Oh, look, the unicorns just showed up. . . . Someone else is in a killing rage, yawn. . . . Magical cockring of honor! . . . So he has wings, and also apparently pon farr. . . . Oh, ahahaha, the unicorns aren't going to perform the wedding ceremony are they? . . . Of course they are."

The breakdown: 90% cheerfully sexist fluffy fluff about family and love. 9% ridiculously over the top violence, sexual and otherwise. 1% plot and world building.

You guys. I just. I don't even. *hand gestures*

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[identity profile] jadedfrenzy.livejournal.com 2009-08-11 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it sad to say that after reading your comments I'm more intrigued than anything else? I want to know how the unicorns come in to play!