Do You Know Were You're Going To

[viridian5]

I recently borrowed two parts of an erotic anthology, Shifting I and III (edited by Rob Knight), that had problems for me but also underscored why I'm not much for werepeople in fiction

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[purkledragon]

I find the whole Sylar's power hunger thing annoying. Why not just claim it as an addiction or since his power is the ability to understand how things work, the need/desire to understand more? Hunger means you'll die without it, but if it's something you can fight it's an addiction.

[viridian5]

I feel exactly the same way.

[viridian5]

That's disgusting, Claire.

[7veilsphaedra]

"Mate. Want mate. Bad smells. Hunt. Man bad."

So ... not unlike Shooters Nite at the local roadhouse then?

[viridian5]

Pretty much!

[jessara40k]

I don't know where you're getting your information about later in the series from, but that is highly biased. In Danse Macabre Richard tried to use the possibility that Anita was pregnant to force her into marrying him and killing herself by giving up all the other men she loves and who love her. He also made it clear that if she becamse a wolf he'd use her during the full moon, force her to give up the men who actually care about her, and ignore her the rest of the time. Then in The Harlequin he tried to force her to become a wolf, metaphysically raping her, this after sex that came very close to rape, when he seriously hurt her by ignoring what she said. Later on in the book he admitted that he uses women and doesn't give a fig about what happens to them or how they feel after he gets his rocks off - and that he doesn't do his best for the people in his life, including Anita. Finally in Blood Noir he tried to enslave Antia by raping her mind and emotions, and followed that up by abandoning her without any possible assistance -

[viridian5]

If Richard's doing all that, he still sucks.

I've been avoiding the series now mostly because I keep hearing that Anita has a succubus ability that demands she have sex with a harem of shapeshifters. Also that she decided the head of the werelions should be executed because he'd rather stay faithful to his wife than have sex with Anita. I could have heard wrongly.

[jessara40k]

Not exactly. She decided not to protect him and allow him to hide behind her skirts because he refused to do anything to save her life and the lives of everyone bound to her.