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Bookish Rants or Raves: Drawing The Line! What’s Ur Limit?
I was reading a post about Train Wreck Books at Mama Kitty Reviews blog and I started thinking about my limits when it comes to subject matters in the books I choose to read or that are offered to me for review.
I have to admit that I pretty flexible, I usually am open for mostly anything. I love reading M/M Romance, have read a lot of Paranormal Erotica and have no qualms about delving into a book with BDSM elements.
That being said, there are some subjects out there where I simply feel the need to draw the line. I haven’t read any books with them, but I have read about them in blogs and on twitter.
I remember reading on twitter and subsequently on a blog about a book where the woman has sex with a tree… *a moment of silence, please* Seriously guys, a F***ing TREE! How can that be remotely considered sexy? In Karen Chance’s Cassandra Palmer series there is a scene where the heroine is raped briefly by a branch in fairyland, but that was never in anyway portrayed as something good… at all!
Than there is this satyr series out there, where the satyrs have two penises… I really don’t wann discuss this too much… but, come on!
Than there are some subjects where I draw the line that are fairly simple in nature, like incest, I mean I really don’t want to read about any sort of incestuous relationships, ever!
This is MY opinion guys! If you enjoy any or all of the subjects above, please, that is your right! But, I also have the right to state my own thoughts.
How about you? Where do you draw the line???
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LOL you mean the Lords of Satyr series by Elizabeth Amber. I quite enjoy them once you get passed its-er- eccentricities?
I draw the line at zombies. Although Zoe Archer made it work (sort of, but I still had a hard time suspending disbelief) for me in Half Past Dead, I can't stop picturing rotting flesh…that peels..and they're RE-ANIMATED CORPSES people how is that sexy or hot?! Vampires are different, Anne Rice can be thanked for that, but zombies…*shudder*
As for incest, no on general principle but Sara Douglass makes it, well, not 'work' per se but it makes sense why it's written into her Axis/Wayferer trilogies. Go read it, I can't explain LOL But if not a fantasy book, no. NO. Stephenie Meyer didn't get it right with the whole Jacob->Bella->Nessie thing, not that it's incest but Sara Douglass makes this sort of situation make sense and not "OH GROSS WTF"
I don't remember the branch incident in the Cassandra Palmer series, hmm, may have to re read it or it just flew over my head and I kept reading lol
I'm pretty much open-minded too so it's interesting when my limits are tested lol
I can't remember anything else at the moment XD
@envyious
yeah, thats the series I meant hehe hmmmm I'll have to trust you that one LOL
oooh thanks for the heads up on the incest thing hehe… yeah Stephanie Meyer didnt do incest, but there was definitely a line that got crossed there LOL
ahahahhaha I dont remember in which book that happens… the had just gotten to the fairyland place and they were attacked in the forest…. it was very creepy *shudders*
Oh wow! I totally wanted to read the Lords of Satyr, but keep forgetting to get around to it. I had no idea they had two penises. Oh my goodness.
As for vampires being different, I still have a place in the back of my mind that says eewww! Anne Rice may have made them sexy, but she didn't make them functional sexually. Still have the corpse factor happening.
But zombies. Yikes. 🙂 I keep telling myself it's old news. Read it and get over it.
I so need to get over the creep out factor and put some new authors under my belt. Wait…that didn't sound right.
LOL
@Reena & Envyious
I forgot to comment on the zombie thing… they are so gross… I have enjoyed Nancy Holzner's Deadtown, but zombies will never be sexy…
even though I did enjoy Mark Henry's Amanda Feral books… I had a hard time buying zombies being hot or fabulous *double shudder*
hehe
@Reena
yeah, vamp can still ring your creep meter…
that why I believe that my faves are the shifters… yummy!
Incest is just too icky for me.
i also do not like m/m or f/f when the romance is the main storyline. I do not mind there being a m/m or f/f romance when it fits the story, but if it takes centerstage, I lose interest as it just doesn't do anything for me.
@Sullivan
I absolutely get that, I do enjoy M?M romance =)
I do agree with you about incest… definitely icky!
I don't like reading about sex with demons or anything of the demonic nature. That's why I don't read too many paranormals. I have read vamps but only the sweeter types, lol.
Another scenario that skeeves me a bit are characters that have sexual relationships with people in the same family. For example, a woman who married/slept with older brother then moved onto younger bro. That just bugs me and I cannot read it.
@Scorpio
hmmmm yeah, I get the demon thing… it can def be creepy..
ooooh keeping it in the family can be such in bad taste… if done right it can be ok… but if done wrong, it is just… wrong hehe =)
hmm…i know this sounds odd in a WTF there must be something way…but no.
That sounds soo bad doesn't it lol, I don't really know why I'm like that.
There are things that will make me think eww or that soo did not just happen…but there has been anything that bad that will make me not read something.
@Wings
I know what you mean LOL
I'd probably read a satyr book for curiosity… but I wouldnt actively seek out a book where it features incest, you know? LOL
I've got that Satyr book and can't bring myself to read it. I'm not scared of the weenies but afraid of hating it. LOL Okay I will be strong and read it. And yes, incest absolute no go and I hate rape in books most of the times. But that is something you mostly notice to late and I just get the urge to throw the book out of the window. LOL