Voted for Jillian because it takes a special kind of delusion to pretend your barely teenage daughter ran away out of pique when actually you deliberately pimped her out to your younger husband, let him rape your only child, and then blamed HER when she got pregnant.
I really dislike the ghostwriter so in general, I only consider the first three Heaven books canon (the fourth book and the prequel are like bad fanfiction), but it was clear in Dark Angel that Tony's version of what happened was a bunch of horse shit. The only part that was definitely true in his version was when he admitted that he raped his 13 year old stepdaughter. All of the other stuff he said was crap.
Even if he did this all of his own volition, Jillian was still a horrible mother for letting her 13 year old CHILD run away while pregnant. What kind of delusional person would blame a pubescent girl for getting pregnant? But if you take Garden of Shadows into account, she's even more delusional and horrible for setting up the whole thing.
it was clear in Dark Angel that Tony's version of what happened was a bunch of horse shit. The only part that was definitely true in his version was when he admitted that he raped his 13 year old stepdaughter. All of the other stuff he said was crap.
Right? With all his self-justification and lies, Tony still can't deny he raped Leigh. It makes me wonder just how much worse it actually was. I'll always be sad that we didn't get Andrews's version of Leigh's story.
Even if he did this all of his own volition, Jillian was still a horrible mother for letting her 13 year old CHILD run away while pregnant.
Yep. And then pretending for so long that she had no idea why Leigh had gone or what happened to her.
I'll always be sad that we didn't get Andrews's version of Leigh's story.
Same. Even if she had told the exact same plot that we ended up, I feel like it would read so much less hacky than the way the ghostwriter did it.
With all his self-justification and lies, Tony still can't deny he raped Leigh. It makes me wonder just how much worse it actually was. It was always wild to me that he admitted to it. Tony is a scumbag for multiple reasons but from a realistic point of view, he could have said anything since Leigh was not around to contradict him yet he chose to tell his own bio daughter that he raped her 13 year old mother. Even if Heaven chose to believe his twisted story that Leigh kept coming to him and voluntarily had sex with him subsequently (which I do not believe), that does not erase or justify the fact that he raped a child who was living under his roof as his stepdaughter. Like bro, do you even hear yourself
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It was always wild to me that he admitted to it... he could have said anything since Leigh was not around to contradict him yet he chose to tell his own bio daughter that he raped her 13 year old mother.
And then he still expected Heaven to do what he said, not realising he'd totalled any moral authority he might have still possessed. What an idiot.
Even if Heaven chose to believe his twisted story that Leigh kept coming to him and voluntarily had sex with him subsequently (which I do not believe), that does not erase or justify the fact that he raped a child who was living under his roof as his stepdaughter.I don't think Heaven believed Tony, either, and I think that's why she had an emotional meltdown afterwards. She knows that she wasn't willing with Cal, even if that's how it was perceived by Kitty's family and Logan (fuck you, Logan), so of course she understands that Leigh was raped (even without Tony's horrifying description of Leigh fighting and screaming
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I had to dust off my copy of Dark Angel just to make sure I got the full quote correct because I remembered how much it grossed me out:
"And when I advanced, she'd begin to shiver and quake. Sometimes tears would streak her face. When I touched her she'd fight and scream, but she knew no one could hear her screams, and in the end she'd succumb to my lovemaking like the promiscuous child she was beneath all that angelic sweetness."
And he followed that up with:
"I know I have shocked and hurt you, and despite all that I've told you, I did love your mother. She was only a kid, and still I can't forget her."
We really need the vomit reaction emoji for someone like Tony. The audacity of this man.
OMG, I'd forgotten how bad this comes off. She was shaking, sobbing, screaming, trying to fight him off, and he just carried on like it was nbd. And when she finally froze and disassociated, he told himself that meant she wanted it all along.
"despite all that I've told you, I did love your mother. She was only a kid, and still I can't forget her."
GROSSSSSSSSS
I'm so sad that Heaven didn't manage to disown him for another book. Fuck Logan AGAIN for making her stay at Farthy.
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Even if he did this all of his own volition, Jillian was still a horrible mother for letting her 13 year old CHILD run away while pregnant. What kind of delusional person would blame a pubescent girl for getting pregnant? But if you take Garden of Shadows into account, she's even more delusional and horrible for setting up the whole thing.
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Right? With all his self-justification and lies, Tony still can't deny he raped Leigh. It makes me wonder just how much worse it actually was. I'll always be sad that we didn't get Andrews's version of Leigh's story.
Even if he did this all of his own volition, Jillian was still a horrible mother for letting her 13 year old CHILD run away while pregnant.
Yep. And then pretending for so long that she had no idea why Leigh had gone or what happened to her.
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Same. Even if she had told the exact same plot that we ended up, I feel like it would read so much less hacky than the way the ghostwriter did it.
With all his self-justification and lies, Tony still can't deny he raped Leigh. It makes me wonder just how much worse it actually was. It was always wild to me that he admitted to it. Tony is a scumbag for multiple reasons but from a realistic point of view, he could have said anything since Leigh was not around to contradict him yet he chose to tell his own bio daughter that he raped her 13 year old mother. Even if Heaven chose to believe his twisted story that Leigh kept coming to him and voluntarily had sex with him subsequently (which I do not believe), that does not erase or justify the fact that he raped a child who was living under his roof as his stepdaughter. Like bro, do you even hear yourself ( ... )
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And then he still expected Heaven to do what he said, not realising he'd totalled any moral authority he might have still possessed. What an idiot.
Even if Heaven chose to believe his twisted story that Leigh kept coming to him and voluntarily had sex with him subsequently (which I do not believe), that does not erase or justify the fact that he raped a child who was living under his roof as his stepdaughter.I don't think Heaven believed Tony, either, and I think that's why she had an emotional meltdown afterwards. She knows that she wasn't willing with Cal, even if that's how it was perceived by Kitty's family and Logan (fuck you, Logan), so of course she understands that Leigh was raped (even without Tony's horrifying description of Leigh fighting and screaming ( ... )
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"And when I advanced, she'd begin to shiver and quake. Sometimes tears would streak her face. When I touched her she'd fight and scream, but she knew no one could hear her screams, and in the end she'd succumb to my lovemaking like the promiscuous child she was beneath all that angelic sweetness."
And he followed that up with:
"I know I have shocked and hurt you, and despite all that I've told you, I did love your mother. She was only a kid, and still I can't forget her."
We really need the vomit reaction emoji for someone like Tony. The audacity of this man.
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"despite all that I've told you, I did love your mother. She was only a kid, and still I can't forget her."
GROSSSSSSSSS
I'm so sad that Heaven didn't manage to disown him for another book. Fuck Logan AGAIN for making her stay at Farthy.
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