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[drusillas_rain]

I really wish RL books came with warnings. I'm really getting tired of unexpected rape scenes within the first 10 pages of a book :(

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[drusillas-rain.livejournal.com]

I actually don't mind not having warnings when it comes to character death in published books (fanfic is different), especially since most of what I enjoy reading are murder mysteries. But I've never come across rape in a book until the past year. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised at my own reaction to it (I never expected to be so bothered by it).

[innerslytherin]

Come to think about it, I've never come across graphic rape in a book without expecting it. So maybe I would mind a lot if that happened. Hmm.

[drusillas-rain.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a genre thing - I've only recently been reading a lot of scifi and fantasy, where before I'd either read YA or murder mysteries or classics.

[innerslytherin]

Maybe...but fantasy (and to a much lesser extent scifi) has been my main genre since I was a kid. And I just remembered there WAS one time I stumbled across a rather graphic rape (committed by the so-called 'hero' of the series, no less); I promptly stopped reading. I'll mention the author/series if you want to know, but don't want to spoil you without it being invited. I remember now that the event in question made me reject utterly any notion of the character as a sympathetic character, so I decided not to read the author any more.

I think, though, that was the only remotely graphic rape I've read. But now you've got me wondering how many others I've forgotten about.....