A Spoilery and Possibly Triggering Reread Review
First and foremost: Queen of the Damned is such a horrible movie and a horrible adaptation. However, Queen of the Damned is pretty much unadaptable as a movie. Needs a mini series at least. Give those plot lines time to breathe or, ya know, exist. Good book, bad movie. Stewart Townsend is best on-screen Lestat. Fight me.
Iron Kissed was really good and mostly enjoyable. Mercy books are kind of like watching Netflix shows. The chapters run together in cliff-hanger-ish ways, but a bit more subtle. Keeps your attention and keeps you wanting to turn the page. I have a hard time putting down the book when I know I should, chapter breaks or not.
Iron Kissed focuses a lot on the fae. We learn a lot more about them and how they work. We also learn that they’re definitely scary af. Even their objects aren’t to be trifled with. I very much enjoyed the world-building. It was fun, until it wasn’t… and this is where the spoilers are going to start, if you’d like to avoid them. Also a trigger warning: discussion of rape.
This Is You Final Spoiler and Trigger Warning
I really like how Mercy’s love triangle is handled. Turns out, not an actual love triangle. Makes me very happy. Love triangles have always bugged the shit out of me. These days I’m more likely to just yell at whatever I’m reading or watching that they should just consider a Polyamorous relationship, because the stupid drama is just stupid. Mercy neatly bypasses all that with Samuel and Mercy realizing she’s just pack to him and not mate.
I really and sincerely hate rapist antagonists. Tim Milanovich is definitely one of those and he’s hella gross. I hate him and I hate seeing what he did to Mercy. And that was written before I reread the actual rape part… why is it female protagonists so often end up raped and male ones don’t? Mind you, I don’t read a lot of male-led series, so I’m mostly assuming… seems to be a thing with female protagonists, though. Some form of rape, be it mental of physical, often happens to them at some point in their lives. Ugh. Also, I say that, but the last handful of series I’ve read don’t include rape plots… just this one. TV series on the other hand… I’m probably projecting in my utter disgust, but… idk. I’m also pretty sure some part of me was dreading that part of the story as well… which is possibly why it took me longer than normal to get through Iron Kissed.
Adam’s complete acceptance of Ben is heartwarming. I teared up. Also got set off by the Pack showing up for Mercy. I know it’s essentially on Adam’s orders, but still. Ben is definitely my favorite wolf after Warren.
I am overall pleased with how Iron Kissed handled everything. That said, I am also very aware that Mercy largely getting over her trauma in a week or so isn’t at all realistic. I barely remember anything from the next four books, which I have previously read, so I can’t say whether or not there’s anything lingering, but a part of me highly doubts it.
Favorite Lines
"I didn't brush my teeth with gunpowder this morning so I could go shooting my mouth off, Mercy, but this is serious." - Warren Smith
"We might not be able to lie... but truth and honesty are rather difficult." - Zee Adelbertsmiter
"Some people are boys longer than others," - Mercy Thompson
"If there was one thing I'd learned over the past few interesting (in the sense of the old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times") months, it was that when things started to get dangerous, it was important to have people who knew as much as you did. That way, when I stupidly got myself killed -- someone would gave a starting place to look for my murderer." - Mercy Thompson
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