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The first step to defeating your addiction is admitting you have a problem.
Today I bought Havemercy by Jaida Jones and Daniel Bennett (the one with the inappropriate subtext between brothers! And yeah that is what it's going to be called forever because what the hell, you can't have holding onto faces and gazing into eyes and be like later oh by the way they're brothers! Unless you're going to pull a Sarah Monette and make the incestuous longings canon in which case viva la subtext), Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow (Werewolves! Free verse poetry! A match made in heaven? Only time will tell), and Daughter of Hounds by Caitlin R. Kiernan (I have no idea but the cover is nice and I've heard she writes good horror/fantasy).
I had no intention of buying books today. BUT THEY WERE ON SALE AND I AM WEAK. T_T
I have also continued in my Romance Quest with Sherry Thomas' His At Night. The heroine is one of my favourite types! This is posing a wee bit of a problem since my reading is currently going like this.
HEROINE: My uncle is an Evil Abuser who conspires to keep me trapped within our house forever while forcing me to maintain the facade that we are a happy loving family. I smile and bear it but am desperately trying to find a way to escape his clutches. The unexpected arrival of some guests at our manor while he is out has provided me an opportunity! I shall do my best to wed one of these eligible bachelors so as to have protection for myself and my aunt as we escape my uncle.
HERO: I am an agent of the crown! We currently suspect heroine's uncle may be involved in EVIL doings involving illegal diamonds. My days as an international spy sometimes leave me heartsore and weary so I will often retreat into my fantasy of my dream woman greeting me with the most beautiful smile. Oh look then, plotting to be invited to heroine's house in order for some investigation business.
THEY MEET.
HEROINE: Oh please God let this work. -smiles charmingly-
HERO: Oh my God, it's my dream woman!
THINGS: Happen.
HERO: What what, the heroine is actually trying to get me to marry her, she is not the pure loving woman of my dreams, she is a gold digger, her smiles are TAINTED.
HEROINE: Time is running out, my uncle will return in a few days, I can't be trapped here forever, I just can't, I am having nightmares about never being able to leave. My conscious does prick me at the thought of entrapping a man but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.
HERO: -thwarts while angsting about how she does not match the woman of his ~dreams~-
HEROINE: -attempts to snag hero's brother-
ME: Oh my poor trapped morally ambiguous darling. COME AWAY WITH ME ELISSANDE, I WILL PROTECT YOU FROM YOUR UNCLE. I WOULD NEVER DREAM OF JUDGING YOU SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU ARE A REAL PERSON AND NOT THE EMBODIMENT OF A FANTASY I HAVE OF YOU. YOUR SMILE IS ALL THE BETTER FOR BEING A SURVIVAL TOOL YOU HAVE BUILT UP OVER THE YEARS.
There's still about 300 pages to go, hopefully our hero will get a clue and stop woe facing over the fact that her smiles are not a ~pure expression of love~ with no calculation behind them. You've known her for two days buddy, she didn't get the memo about your long standing fantasy relationship. :/
I had no intention of buying books today. BUT THEY WERE ON SALE AND I AM WEAK. T_T
I have also continued in my Romance Quest with Sherry Thomas' His At Night. The heroine is one of my favourite types! This is posing a wee bit of a problem since my reading is currently going like this.
HEROINE: My uncle is an Evil Abuser who conspires to keep me trapped within our house forever while forcing me to maintain the facade that we are a happy loving family. I smile and bear it but am desperately trying to find a way to escape his clutches. The unexpected arrival of some guests at our manor while he is out has provided me an opportunity! I shall do my best to wed one of these eligible bachelors so as to have protection for myself and my aunt as we escape my uncle.
HERO: I am an agent of the crown! We currently suspect heroine's uncle may be involved in EVIL doings involving illegal diamonds. My days as an international spy sometimes leave me heartsore and weary so I will often retreat into my fantasy of my dream woman greeting me with the most beautiful smile. Oh look then, plotting to be invited to heroine's house in order for some investigation business.
THEY MEET.
HEROINE: Oh please God let this work. -smiles charmingly-
HERO: Oh my God, it's my dream woman!
THINGS: Happen.
HERO: What what, the heroine is actually trying to get me to marry her, she is not the pure loving woman of my dreams, she is a gold digger, her smiles are TAINTED.
HEROINE: Time is running out, my uncle will return in a few days, I can't be trapped here forever, I just can't, I am having nightmares about never being able to leave. My conscious does prick me at the thought of entrapping a man but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.
HERO: -thwarts while angsting about how she does not match the woman of his ~dreams~-
HEROINE: -attempts to snag hero's brother-
ME: Oh my poor trapped morally ambiguous darling. COME AWAY WITH ME ELISSANDE, I WILL PROTECT YOU FROM YOUR UNCLE. I WOULD NEVER DREAM OF JUDGING YOU SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU ARE A REAL PERSON AND NOT THE EMBODIMENT OF A FANTASY I HAVE OF YOU. YOUR SMILE IS ALL THE BETTER FOR BEING A SURVIVAL TOOL YOU HAVE BUILT UP OVER THE YEARS.
There's still about 300 pages to go, hopefully our hero will get a clue and stop woe facing over the fact that her smiles are not a ~pure expression of love~ with no calculation behind them. You've known her for two days buddy, she didn't get the memo about your long standing fantasy relationship. :/