A Problem with Time Travel

I didn't even mention hygiene! AH!

Are we really expected to accept that women from modern day are just cool with no indoor plumbing and no tampons. Also the lack of daily showers. I get that he is hot and all but are you really going to sleep with a guy that hasn't properly bathed in months? That's what we are going with here. Because the time period we are talking about here is smack dab during the time when they though water was evil and taking a bath would let demons in, so no bathing in sight.

Also why are periods never addressed? I get they aren't sexy but we get one every month. Its not like they go away any time except pregnancy and old age. What did they even do for periods back then? In the 1500s what did they do? I am pretty sure you stuffed rags between your legs and just dealt with it. That is so gross I can't even imagine. So yeah all these characters are supposedly totally cool about never getting tampons again.

What about Advil? Or vaccines? Am I really to assume that this one guy is so hot you are okay living in a world where there are not treatments for some pretty major disease. No chemo if you get cancer, not that you would know anyway until the tumor is the side of a Volkswagen. No pain killers that are not also something a hippie would take to get high. No reliable tooth paste. No toilet paper. No hand soap.

Not buying it. I am just saying. I think I can live without whatever this guy is selling. Sure he might be super hot but I am sure I can find a very good looking guy in the 21st century that has gotten all his shots and doesn't have lice. LICE!

Book Review: Dark Seduction by Brenda Joyce

I have serious issues with this book. Massive major issues. I am not even half way through and I don't think I will finish it. First lets start with the plot or what can laughingly be called the plot. This book is in that same series as before about the Highlanders that can time travel. At the beginning we meet Claire who own a books store in modern day New York and is kind of kick ass. Her mother was murdered and so was her cousin and she takes her safety very serious. She owns fire arms and several tasers, I tell you this so stuff later will confuse you the way it does me.

So a creepy lady shows up breaks down her door and knocks her out because she is searching for a page from a book. When Claire wakes up there is a massive Highlander that comes to look for the page too. But rather than freak out like she did with the lady she just sorta lets him in. Keep in mind we know that she has two family members that were clearly killed by men. Yeah so come on in scary guy. Then when shit hits the fan she  puts on a mini skirt, which I think is bull because we all know you put pants on if there is any chance of danger because they are harder to get off and keep you covered.

Well they go back in time and we get to the part that really super pisses me off. Claire is now more bipolar than my mother at this point in time in the book. One second she demands to be taken seriously and then the next she meekly accepts that he must be right because he is hot. Here is how the scenes have been going so far.

Claire: I need to learn to fight to defend my self and hunt for my mother's murder. (forget about the cousin apparently.)
Malcom: Nay you are my woman and I will protect you so shut up. (lots of broken english to show the readers that he has an accent which makes me want to punch the author)
Claire: You are right I am a coward. (No really she says this several times right after having long speeches about how in the modern day women are equal to men in many respects.)

(CORRESPONDING FACE GOES WITH CORRESPONDING EMOTION!)

What super pisses me off is that Claire never brings up the best argument for her side. That he cannot be with her every moment of every day and its a good idea if she have some knowledge of how to use a weapon. Especially because twice in the book so far Malcolm has been busying either fighting or taking a nap when some one has attacked Claire. Yet they both seem to forget this fact and spend hours fighting about how she is under his protection and he wont let anything happen to her. Well you did asshole, she was nearly strangled two chapters ago while you took a snooze so shut your face!!!!

I was also just reading a scene where Malcolm and his half brother are having a conversation. Claire says something. Malcolm gives her a glare and suddenly she thinks "women have no place to speak here. I will wait till later." I shit you not. She just accepts that. Yeah that makes sense. A women that was raised toady would totally be cool being dismissed by the guy she is "falling in love with" because he thinks she has no place to speak.

As the author from Reasoning with Vampires would say; we are entering some serious psychological fuckery here kids.

I have another book from this series sitting in my room and I am scared to pick it up because the female lead is kick as in another book. She carried weapons and all sorts of stuff. She gave a guy a round house kick. If she crumples because of one really good fucking I am going to find Brenda Joyce and smack her into next Sunday.

Book Review: Dark Embrace by Brenda Joyce

I got this book from the library because there was some subconscious recognition going on. I saw the author name and had a vague impression of knowing it. So I looked through the selection and picked the one with the back the most drew me. It was because the lead male in this one could turn into a wolf, I know big surprise but you can just deal with it.

Anyway I am a little lost as to what the main plot of these books are because this one takes place in the middle of the series. But there are a bunch of Highlanders who are all crazy hot and can time travel to save innocent people, and find pretty ladies. This book is about the guy, Aidan the Wolf of Awe,  that basically got semi screwed cuz is dad is crazy evil and he ends up kind of half evil-half good. We get that whole tormented thing going on big time here. He saves this girl, Brie Rose, that at first I totally like but as it went on I got annoyed with. She is a bit of a geek girl and wears glasses which I totally love when they have fellow glasses wearers in these books, but she is a bit of a wet blanket in my opinion.

See mr. man doesnt want to love her and have his soul saved so he is mean and still pissed about some stuff his dad did. And the girl just takes it and chases him around saying she loves him and wants to heal and save him. It got to the point were it was a bit like domestic abuse the way thing were going. A large portion of this book was devoted to simply hashing out this same thing over and over again until the guy finally gave in. It bored me a little and I turned up the skim speed so to speak so that I could get through it faster.

On the other hand the side characters that clearly had their own books seemed interesting and I have every intention of reading more of the series. I don't really know if I liked this book a whole lot, but then again I have been in a mood recently because of not knowing how the job interview went the other day.