WARNING: Rape scene in Chapter 8.

<spoiler>Not happy how the rape was handled - namely the aftermath.

Emberly is raped. The rape happened to Emberly. The entire series is written from the first-person POV of Emberly.

And yet we read shit like this:

<i>I pulled away from him, my gaze searching his. Not only was there rage, but also horror and a very deep sense of defilement.

Oh fuck... He'd *felt* it.</i>

OK, so Emberly and Jackson have a telepathic connection. But my point is IT WAS NOT JACKSON'S BODY THAT WAS PENETRATED RAW AND DRY, AND BLED.

And there was even more shit later:

<i>"And it would have felt even more invasive for you because you had no warning. At least I knew what was going to happen and could fortify myself mentally against it."</i>

OK, everyone deals with rape differently. But to say that the person who WASN'T raped had it worse than the person who WAS raped...

You could say that Emberly was dissociating, or claiming that "what happened to me happened to *us*", in a "we'll deal with this together" kind of way. But it just pisses me off. Had Jackson actually been physically raped, and not just received echoes of it in his mind telepathically, then I would be sympathetic.

Rape victims don't even get to be the priority in their relationship, if they insist that their non-raped partner suffered more.</spoiler>

Keri does not disappoint, continues to preform. Great read.