Vaginal Fantasy Book Club discussion

Since the Hangout is tomorrow, I thought I'd post this since Felicia is probably super crazy busy and hadn't gotten this far on her to-do list just yet.

Questions, thoughts, and what ever else you feel the ladies need to know!


My questions is: How did you enjoy the contrast between the two books for this month?

I was wondering where this post was lol, good thinking Leah
I read daughter of smoke and bone and loved it, it was a nice easy read nothing too difficult which is great as works mad at the moment, loved it for really getting my imagination going throughout.

Question on daughter of smoke and bone - was anyone else very frustrated by how long it took for us to find out exactly who Karou was/is?
I had guessed at who she was but i was so wanting to see it in print who she was and we didn't get that until 94% in the kindle edition

Also - Karou had only been flying for 5 minutes how on earth did she manage to know how to get herself to Marrakesh ?!!

Good job getting this thread started Leah.

My question is: What did you think of the overall pacing of the second half of the book as well as the choice to switch POV's to Madrigal for much of it?

I thought while the descriptions and world-building were great, the plot got bogged down in all of it and it felt more like exposition than story for the most part.

So I am still reading the main (hoping to start and finish it today, and since I will not be watching live I think I have time), but I had a question about the alt.
There has been numerous discussions on the Pleasure Unbound thread on if the scene in the hospital room constitutes as rape. What did you ladies think?

I thought there were a fair amount of parallels between the female protagonists in the stories. Both Tayla and Karou had a lot of real world skills, felt somewhat fairly close in age and had an essential, part of themselves hidden from their conscious minds. Yet, I found Tayla to be a lot harder to be sympathetic for/with... I really disliked her as a character though enjoyed Eidolon and the rest of the supporting cast quite a bit. Did anyone else feel similarly?

Also, I felt that Karou's character felt/acted older than 17, even with the hidden Madrigal part of herself coming through. Her school experience was much closer to university art school than a private school even if it was in Europe. I almost feel that the age/school was changed to make it fit into the YA category rather than being actually written from the POV of a 17 yr. old. Was it YA? Or was it shoehorned YA because that is a more successful market?

Looking forward to tomorrow night.

Felicia came and started a thread, the link is here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

I'm going to lock this one so we don't have two of the same threads going. I responded to her thread with a link here so she'll see it.

Feel free to copy & paste your comments to that thread too though! :)