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[oyceter]

Rather annoyed at the reviews of Kinsale's Shadowheart on Amazon, particularly the therapist who was rather touchy about the "deviant behavior," which she didn't agree was "mild S&M." I dunno. From what I've seen of some S&M sites (and just read in fanfic), Shadowheart really does seem rather mild. But then, what do I know?

Ah well. Want LJ people to all read this book so I can read what they think, heh heh.

Also very annoyed because I submitted two resumes to Google to get automated responses that the positions I applied to apparently do not exist. Except they're on the website. I am very confused. Emailed the help people, hopefully something will be explained?

I'm just rather tired and bored -- I go to work and sit at the computer all day, come home, eat, and move things from the old apartment. Then diddle around on the computer and sleep. No time for other things if I want to get moved out. Urk.

And the Snape/Hermione fanfic thing is not working out. I'm so used to reading Jossverse fic solely through recs, of which there were no shortage, that having to wade through all the bad fic on my own is really, really frustrating. And not many of the reccers share this strange kink of mine =(. Doh. Need fic crack!

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[oyceter]

It's funny because the BDSM scenes are a giant deal on the romance review sites as well, which is really quite frustrating, given all the other tropes that annoy the hell out of me (particularly the "I am a big manly guy and disregard the word no and you will fall for my forcefulness" one).

I'm glad you liked the book ^_^. One of the reasons I liked it so much was because Kinsale didn't do what I thought she would... I had read some comments on the book before, so I thought it would be a BDSM type relationship with Elena as the sub, like you. Plus, I can count on one hand the number of times a romance novel heroine is sexually aggressive. So on the meta level, I adored having the relationship really not conform to most romance novel plots, and I loved the fact that the sex advanced both the plot and the character development for both Allegretto and Elena.

I actually enjoyed the Catholicism in the book, mostly because I liked how the author actually acknowledged that religion was a pretty big factor at the time instead of conveniently ignoring it, like many romances set in the period do.

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Yeah, there's definitely a certain integrity in acknowledging the power of Catholicism given the setting, and she made it work doing interesting things with how the characters related to Catholicism, but it's one of those things i would have been happy to have had left out, which i know is tied to the fact that i am so not Catholic.