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I did kind of like this series.
And then the very first non-operative female character that the author writes is stupid. As in "I'm a doctor and pregnant to a guy who has a questionable past and doesn't actually have feelings but I know that he really does, so I'll go charging into a hostage trade situation to try to make him find a third path and in the process completely fuck up his plan".
I appreciate that this is probably the kind of thing that normal people who think that everyone else is normal do, but...I don't actually want read about it.
In the author's defence, She's seven books in, there's only eight in the series, and the other six heroines have all been right up my alley. If they do stupid things, at least they're reasonable given the context of their situation and their comparative background and experience.
This one is "I'm a civilian but I think I know better than people who've been doing this stuff for years, so I'm going to walk into a spy/operative/hostage situation and try to change the outcome" levels of stupid.
For the SG1 fans, it's basically Pete Shanahan levels of stupid.
And I hate Pete Shanahan levels of stupid. Especially in the service of 'love'.
The closest excuse that the character gets is that she's pregnant and so she's not thinking straight. Except that the whole premise of her storyline is that she had a one-night stand with crazy scary operative guy who nobody thinks has feelings, and she's not in love with him, but when she found out she was pregnant, she felt she had to tell him, and now she's "trying to reach him" because she still feels attraction for him and she wouldn't feel attracted to someone who doesn't have any feelings would she?
*tears hair*
Look, I get that narratively they need to spend some kind of time together because they're not actually right for each other, and being in a tight and difficult situation on the island that they're being taken to in order to play out the hostage exchange provides that opportunity, but...I'm just so AAAAAAUUGGGGGHHH about the stupidity factor.
AAAAAAUUGGGGGHHH.
At least the last book in the series promises a heroine who at least half-knows how to take care of herself. Maybe.
And then the very first non-operative female character that the author writes is stupid. As in "I'm a doctor and pregnant to a guy who has a questionable past and doesn't actually have feelings but I know that he really does, so I'll go charging into a hostage trade situation to try to make him find a third path and in the process completely fuck up his plan".
I appreciate that this is probably the kind of thing that normal people who think that everyone else is normal do, but...I don't actually want read about it.
In the author's defence, She's seven books in, there's only eight in the series, and the other six heroines have all been right up my alley. If they do stupid things, at least they're reasonable given the context of their situation and their comparative background and experience.
This one is "I'm a civilian but I think I know better than people who've been doing this stuff for years, so I'm going to walk into a spy/operative/hostage situation and try to change the outcome" levels of stupid.
For the SG1 fans, it's basically Pete Shanahan levels of stupid.
And I hate Pete Shanahan levels of stupid. Especially in the service of 'love'.
The closest excuse that the character gets is that she's pregnant and so she's not thinking straight. Except that the whole premise of her storyline is that she had a one-night stand with crazy scary operative guy who nobody thinks has feelings, and she's not in love with him, but when she found out she was pregnant, she felt she had to tell him, and now she's "trying to reach him" because she still feels attraction for him and she wouldn't feel attracted to someone who doesn't have any feelings would she?
*tears hair*
Look, I get that narratively they need to spend some kind of time together because they're not actually right for each other, and being in a tight and difficult situation on the island that they're being taken to in order to play out the hostage exchange provides that opportunity, but...I'm just so AAAAAAUUGGGGGHHH about the stupidity factor.
AAAAAAUUGGGGGHHH.
At least the last book in the series promises a heroine who at least half-knows how to take care of herself. Maybe.