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Ok, I have a problem. I want to write a review of this book, but if Im honest and mention all the points I feel worth bringing up Ill just sound like Im ranting and spewing hate. So, what to leave out? Its gonna be a long and unpleasant one. I apologise up front.Suffice it to say I didnt like Ascension. I thought Dominion was OK, but this book was horrible. It wasnt that the writing was bad, but that I HATED the characters, ALL OF THEM. I found Eve to be the most pitiful and disgusting female lead Ive ever encountered. She might as well have had Victim, Victim, Victim stamped on her forehead. Julian was just an ass and Michel turned out to be so selfish it was hard to face. Seriously, I wanted to shoot them all...except Vasily. Vasily was all right. He was about the only one I could tolerate.My first issue was that this book seemed to have one theme that was repeated over and over and over and OVER again—You must submit and obey, Eve. My god, I got tired of reading that, especially in the first half. The thing is, while I understand the fantasy appeal of reading about submitting sexually to a strong man (its why I picked this series up), watching first Michel and then Julien try to force...no, not force...talk Eve into submission by repeating you must, you have to, youve got no choice but to, etc got damn tiring. Plus, they didnt want just sexual subordination, but complete submission in all things. I know its a personal opinion, but I found it all so far from sexy I almost couldnt take it, for two reasons.First, part of what I think makes the submission fantasy erotic is the fact that the woman is indulging herself in something she wants. However, Michel and Juliens continued nagging for submission suggests that she didnt in fact want to. The author threw the occasional she found it secretly appealing in there and I did understand that the men were supposed to be reading her real internal wishes, but Eves conscious mind rebelled at the idea of being a slave, especially a mindless blood slave. So if it wasnt something Eve wanted, but something the men were trying to impose (which it very much felt like), its lost the very element that made it appealing to me in the first place. And despite their constant demands of obedience, they never allowed her time to learn to trust them or showed any inclination to take her needs into consideration, thereby proving themselves trustworthy. Jackasses, the both of them.Secondly, the D/s fantasy kind of requires a man to have a forceful enough personality that Eve would want to submit to him. Its a falsehood, of course, but part of the whole erotic fantasy, not reality. However, Michel and Julien came across as wheedling. They may as well have been begging. Please submit to me. Please do what I say. Please give me all the power. The fantasy doesnt work both ways.I think what Lund was probably trying to create is the impression that the men had such powerful personalities that they could force Eves to want to submit, but because they cared for her were willing to indulge her fruitless attempts to resist. But it didnt work. It cant. Either they are strong, dominant men that the woman chooses to submit to or they are the softer sort who try to cajole her into subordination—one or the other. Well, I suppose this could become a true bondage and rape themed book and they really could force her, but that option wouldnt accomplish the books goals either.There also seemed to be some disconnect about the whole dominance thing to start with. Book one suggested that this was a quirk Michel had developed after his time with Marguerite, a form of self-protection or something. But here Julien acted the same, as did Luke. He even referred to it as the old ways. If this was a vampire-thing, as opposed to a Michel-thing its a very different story and it feels like evidence of plot drift on the authors part. I cant know this for sure, obviously, but it felt like she started writing it one way, then ended up with something different and never went back to match the two up.Then, when the history of rape was brought in I almost just dropped the series. Is there no other way available to authors to show a womans vulnerabilities? Seriously, it was predictable, unoriginal and just plain tawdry. It crept up to ruin almost any pleasant moment Eve, and therefore I, had in the book.I get that Eve had had a tragic past and, therefor, deserves a little slack. I really do. But I have never had so little respect for a female character. I can tell you exactly when I lost my last dregs of respect too. I made a Kindle note at 54% saying, If she gives in to him, Ill lose what little respect I have left for her. Then a paragraph later posted a second note saying, There you go. I no longer respect this woman at all. Pathetic. Thats how I feel about Eve. Shes pathetic, spine-less, gullible, and apparently has no respect for her own self-worth. So why should I? The things she accepted, the way she let Julien repeatedly devalue her and then crawled to him sickened me. And this was not within the confines of a structured D/s relationship. Its just the way he treated her.Plus, shes just about too stupid to live. Example: a co-worker risked his life to bring her some research related to a clue she knew to be important. She then refused to read it because she didnt believe the mythology it referred to. Listen bitch, if a person thinks its important enough to risk his life to bring it to you, you read it. If not out of self-preservation, then at least out of basic courtesy. Besides, shed accepted vampires, telepathy, miraculous healings, etc already. So why be so ridiculously obstinate about other supernatural occurrences? I dont think Ive ever liked a character less and I know Ive never had less respect for one.Julien was only slightly better. Of the three main characters, him, Eve and Michel I liked him most. But thats still not much. He was a complete jerk to Eve, constantly making unreasonable demands and treating her like dirt. And he was always pushing drugs, booze and blood on her as a way to steal her control and force her to release her inhibitions. However, there were hints that, had the two of them had a little longer, he might have improved. Problem is that about 20% from the end Michel returned and Julien was essentially dropped from the plot completely. I have no idea where he went. I mean the warehouse was HIS home, but he up and vanished. It was as if he and Michel couldnt occupy the plot at the same time.Probably worst of all, though, is that apparently a war was going on, but its all behind the scenes. The men...you know those all important men who can go out and effect the world, unlike us little women, were constantly disappearing to do who knows what. But all the reader got was Eves drivel and internal confusion about her hope that someone would come home and fuck her that night. I get that this is erotica, but if the plot is based on a Biblical war, then the reader needs to see at least a little of it.Again, the writing here was fine—pretty much not worth discussing, good or bad. Im not trying to impart anything about the authors actual skill. But, I hated this book with a level of vitriolic passion that surprises even me. But I have book three on my Kindle and I have this horrible morbid desire to read it and see if the series manages to redeem itself or can somehow manage to get worse. Ive checked out other reviews and I can see Im in the minority here. People like the book. I dont see the appeal. In fact, even though I usually enjoy a little foray into fantasy domination, much of what was written here repulsed me. But I respect to each their own. Id give this a one star if I could. But I generally hold that a complete, properly structured book deserves at least two stars. So, thats what Ill give it.
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