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So, I finally read Blameless by Gail Carriger, after the second book in that series succeeded in seriously pissing me off with the kind of cliffhanger ending that made me stop shipping the main couple forever.
One, Maccon didn't grovel nearly enough to make him even remotely acceptable to me again. Seriously. Dude, if your first response to your wife telling you that she's pregnant is to call her every nasty name in the book before kicking her out, that is not acceptable. I don't care if you're a werewolf and can't impregnate someone, you were human when you fucked her and you knew that. But this happened at the end of the second book! So I was really hoping that he'd end up groveling enough to make him even remotely acceptable to me again, because before that I'd really enjoyed the series.
Nope. He spent the first quarter or so fo the book drunk and ruining his second in command's sheep embryo collection since it apparently takes formaldehyde to make a werewolf drunk. While Alexia's dealing with every single vampire around trying to kill her because she's pregnant, note. And he kicked her out away from the protection of his pack, also note. And she decided to go to Italy, where she was an abomination and in vast amounts of danger because he kicked her out of her own house, also note. While yes, some of this is Alexia's own native ability to get into trouble, some of this was aggravated by him deliberately ignoring everything in order to be a drunken jackass.
And then we find out that, presumably fairly early in being a drunken jackass, he'd realized that Alexia wasn't lying. And he wandered around being drunk while her life was in danger rather than, you know, going and groveling and giving her back all the protection being married to an aristocrat who's also leading a werewolf pack would give her. And yes, he knew she was in danger.
And then they get back together by him making out with her while she's giving him his tongue-lashing. jfc, after wronging your wife just that much, can you at least let her finish yelling at you?
So yeah. I might read the fourth one if I'm sufficiently bored, since I really do still love the side characters. I adore Akeldama/Biffy and I want to know what happens to them after the events of the book, and I'd like the cross-dressing lesbian steampunk inventor and milliner to get into a happy relationship with someone who isn't either too straight and married or too willing to use her. Well, actually I really want Alexia to dump Maccon forever and get into a relationship with her because that would be fucking awesome, but I'll take her finding someone else. But historically, staying in a series because I adore the side characters but can't stand one of the main characters doesn't work. So bah.
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One, Maccon didn't grovel nearly enough to make him even remotely acceptable to me again. Seriously. Dude, if your first response to your wife telling you that she's pregnant is to call her every nasty name in the book before kicking her out, that is not acceptable. I don't care if you're a werewolf and can't impregnate someone, you were human when you fucked her and you knew that. But this happened at the end of the second book! So I was really hoping that he'd end up groveling enough to make him even remotely acceptable to me again, because before that I'd really enjoyed the series.
Nope. He spent the first quarter or so fo the book drunk and ruining his second in command's sheep embryo collection since it apparently takes formaldehyde to make a werewolf drunk. While Alexia's dealing with every single vampire around trying to kill her because she's pregnant, note. And he kicked her out away from the protection of his pack, also note. And she decided to go to Italy, where she was an abomination and in vast amounts of danger because he kicked her out of her own house, also note. While yes, some of this is Alexia's own native ability to get into trouble, some of this was aggravated by him deliberately ignoring everything in order to be a drunken jackass.
And then we find out that, presumably fairly early in being a drunken jackass, he'd realized that Alexia wasn't lying. And he wandered around being drunk while her life was in danger rather than, you know, going and groveling and giving her back all the protection being married to an aristocrat who's also leading a werewolf pack would give her. And yes, he knew she was in danger.
And then they get back together by him making out with her while she's giving him his tongue-lashing. jfc, after wronging your wife just that much, can you at least let her finish yelling at you?
So yeah. I might read the fourth one if I'm sufficiently bored, since I really do still love the side characters. I adore Akeldama/Biffy and I want to know what happens to them after the events of the book, and I'd like the cross-dressing lesbian steampunk inventor and milliner to get into a happy relationship with someone who isn't either too straight and married or too willing to use her. Well, actually I really want Alexia to dump Maccon forever and get into a relationship with her because that would be fucking awesome, but I'll take her finding someone else. But historically, staying in a series because I adore the side characters but can't stand one of the main characters doesn't work. So bah.
This entry was originally posted at opusculus @ DW. There are currently
comments over there. Feel free to talk over there.