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A review by katyanaish
The Bristling Wood by Katharine Kerr
4.0
No original review, so this review is written after my June 2023 re-read.
This book was tough. Terrible things happen to our characters, and it's hard to watch them go through it. Hard and heartbreaking.
I also take some issue with how the other characters handle the disgusting rapist character in this book. Maybe it's partially a product of the 80s/90s, when this was written, but it's disgusting that this man
I love the series, but that was all just tough to get through. And I need to take a little break here before continuing on.
This book was tough. Terrible things happen to our characters, and it's hard to watch them go through it. Hard and heartbreaking.
I also take some issue with how the other characters handle the disgusting rapist character in this book. Maybe it's partially a product of the 80s/90s, when this was written, but it's disgusting that this man
Spoiler
mind-controlled Jill to spirit her away and then spent weeks raping her while mind-fucking her so she thinks she loves him. I mean, I am seriously crying about it again just writing this. But knowing that, the "heroic" male characters - while angry - also pity him. Fuck them all. This makes me loathe them. It ruins Nevyn - it makes him seem just as fucking self-absorbed and uncaring of Brangwen/Jill as he was in his spoiled princeling life, when she was just an object to him and he wasn't sure if he wanted to "keep" her as he contemplated his life. She's just an object to him still, if he doesn't see that this horrible rapist scum should die horribly. He can shove his sanctimonious shit straight up his ass. Salamander, too, for not killing him when he rescued Jill. Fucking pigs, all of them.I love the series, but that was all just tough to get through. And I need to take a little break here before continuing on.