Finished Lover Eternal
Mar. 2nd, 2006 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksI put the book down with mixed feelings. Until the very end of the book, it was heading for an A grade from me, and was the best 2006 book I've read so far. Loved the scenes with Wellsie, Tohr and John, especially how they just sort of absorb him into their life. Ditto for the stuff with Zsadist. Mary finally opened up and trusted Rhage for more than sex, which was an issue through out the first half of the book. But the ending bothered me.
MAJOR SPOILER ABOUT THE END OF THE BOOK: Mary's cancer worsened very quickly, and Rhage went to the Scribe Virgin to beg for mercy, offered to keep the beast permanently. TSV accepted...except that wasn't enough. She would cure Mary, but erase him and the brotherhood from Mary's memory. He was desperate for her to live, so he agreed. But then TSV didn't wipe Mary's memory. Her reasoning was that she didn't realize that Mary was sterile (due to the cancer treatments she'd undergone in the past) and didn't think it was fair to erase her memory of love since she wouldn't be able to have kids. WTF? I'm projecting my own issues here, but what does child bearing have to do with anything? If the Scribe Virgin had merely been testing Mary and Rhage's love, I could respect that. If TSV changed her mind upon meeting Mary, I could respect that. But flip-flopping because of Mary's inability to have children just bothers me, because it implies that no HEA is ever possible without children.
I think I'm going to have to re-read this book more carefully before I assign any grade to it in my reading journal.
MAJOR SPOILER ABOUT THE END OF THE BOOK: Mary's cancer worsened very quickly, and Rhage went to the Scribe Virgin to beg for mercy, offered to keep the beast permanently. TSV accepted...except that wasn't enough. She would cure Mary, but erase him and the brotherhood from Mary's memory. He was desperate for her to live, so he agreed. But then TSV didn't wipe Mary's memory. Her reasoning was that she didn't realize that Mary was sterile (due to the cancer treatments she'd undergone in the past) and didn't think it was fair to erase her memory of love since she wouldn't be able to have kids. WTF? I'm projecting my own issues here, but what does child bearing have to do with anything? If the Scribe Virgin had merely been testing Mary and Rhage's love, I could respect that. If TSV changed her mind upon meeting Mary, I could respect that. But flip-flopping because of Mary's inability to have children just bothers me, because it implies that no HEA is ever possible without children.
I think I'm going to have to re-read this book more carefully before I assign any grade to it in my reading journal.
