sundowning’s Reviews > Butcher & Blackbird > Status Update

Why did we have to reduce Sloane to this level of idiocy? Instead of using the trauma from her youth that was RIGHT THERE, she's afraid of being left 'because nobody else stuck around'?? Oh brother...

I DID love the part with the guy, what, Harvey Mead?? I can't remember his name. At least, until they started making out instead of helping a poor captured woman. Hello? Priorities? Isn't your arm dislocated? Sigh.

Rowan's handy dandy guide to helping someone having PTSD-esque flashbacks about CSA: touch them and cage them in your arms (then tighten that grip) WITHOUT asking for permission, because it's a well-known fact that people who have been sexually assaulted really love being touched and tightly held without warning while their mind is literally stuck in that moment.

Even if Sloane wasn't the direct victim... NOT it.

"Narcissus, you're starting another book!" one may exclaim in horror seeing another addition to my current reads.
To which I would reply, "I'm SORRYYYY I wanted to night read... :("

I forgot how different contemporary is. The vocabulary and prose are so different and far less complex than my norm. Not a bad thing, but it's such easy reading that I feel understimulated...

Sloane and Lark have so much chemistry...