You know, I was saying the same damn thing--I wouldn't have liked this as a teenager and I wrote my own self-insertion Mary Sue fanfic at the time I was the "target" age for this crap. I read my share of Christopher Pike angst-fests, but those were better written than anything I've seen of this series. For starters, they frequently let their protagonists...lose. Fail! Not win at everything in life ever! Sometimes, they died. Not even all that heroically!
I need to go back and look at my old reading material. Somehow I think my books of choice--mostly Stephen King--have aged better than this series ever will.
But yeah, the pregnancy description almost made sick. Like actual wretching sick. Anything having to do with pregnancy wigs me more than most things. (This is why I left Aliens vs Predator: Requiem green at the gills.) I had to wonder, though, given the author's background, if her horror isn't revealing more than she knows about her personal experience. She's clearly conservative in her values vis a vis sexual relations before marriage; it almost seems as if the monstrous birth of her series is both scare tactic and her individual reaction to sex/pregnancy. Someone, somewhere, scarred this woman. Seriously.
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:51 am (UTC)I need to go back and look at my old reading material. Somehow I think my books of choice--mostly Stephen King--have aged better than this series ever will.
But yeah, the pregnancy description almost made sick. Like actual wretching sick. Anything having to do with pregnancy wigs me more than most things. (This is why I left Aliens vs Predator: Requiem green at the gills.) I had to wonder, though, given the author's background, if her horror isn't revealing more than she knows about her personal experience. She's clearly conservative in her values vis a vis sexual relations before marriage; it almost seems as if the monstrous birth of her series is both scare tactic and her individual reaction to sex/pregnancy. Someone, somewhere, scarred this woman. Seriously.