Once Upon a Time discussion

Okay, so I finally read this one. Pretty good. I got suuuuper confused around the middle tho. Care to explain what the heck happened???

never got past the first chapter. sorry.

I think I read another book of this series. I think it was called Vailant? I couldn't get past the third chapter. After her mom had sex with her boyfriend, I found it too squicky for me.

If you read that one, did it get better?

woah...that is pretty squicky. What the heck?

I might have to look in to that ;)

I love squickiness. sometimes.

You guys are weird!

hehe. sorry :)

So you didn't read it? I thought Tithe was part of that series.

Yeah, Valiant is in that series... but I never read any of them. :D

Don't. Too squicky.

Didn't plan on it. All the drugs and alcohol... ugh!

I liked this book. I didn't exactly love it because it did get a bit confusing. Its true they talk about drugs and alcohol... but so does (i think) wickedly lovely. Have any of you read that?

That book (Wicked Lovely) is on my to-read list.

It's not the drugs/alcohol/sex that bothers me exactly . . . just the way it was handled in Valiant. Too casual. Not enough consequences for the characters' actions. I didn't think that was believable, and they weren't really relevant to the over-all plot. (That is, as far as I was able to read.)

I don't mind these sorts of things if they are central the the story, but it seemed to me that Holly Black just put them in there for the "wow" factor. I guess it's just not my style.

Oh, I kind of get what you mean. Like you wish the author wouldn't make it seem smoking was common or drinking.

Exactly! I mean, I can understand if it pertained to the story -- like if the main character's father had a drinking problem, and abused them or something. But when the author just puts it in to make their character sound cool, it really bothers me.

It makes it seem as if smoking was cool.

Yes. And smoking without getting lung cancer.

*snorts* ya

its just another way of making underage smoking seem okay