Laurell K. Hamilton dreck

There was a thread about Laurell K. Hamilton and how horrible she is in Lazy, Stupid, and Godless on Ravelry, and I offered to share the end of "Nightseer", which was published by Roc in 1992. It's bad. It's really bad. The main character spends most of the book being bitchy and shutting down her (arranged marriage) fiancé's advances while simultaneously being kind of a tease. Also, her body is taken over by a succubus at one point, and then her fiancé is kidnapped by succubi led by the evil witch who killed her mother and . . . it's just bad.

So here's the end of the book, where Keleios and Lothor get hitched and their "wedding night". Bah. It's atypical to say the least.

As the section starts, Keleios is getting ready for her wedding to Lothor. Asterisks are mine. If you don't want to read about the wedding, scroll down to the part where I've bolded the text and begin there.

Lothor -- black healing arts priest/prince/fiancé dude
Keleios -- whiny bitch
Magda -- her former nanny/mother figure
Methia -- Keleios's twin sister
Groghe -- Keleios's imp/demon pet
Tobin -- prince of some other country; one of Keleios's sidekicks
Urle -- the god of Keleios and Methia's country; he's a blacksmith

( The horror within )

So there you have it, folks. Attacked by a succubus on their wedding night and nearly dying while running the risk of burning down a castle, they laugh maniacally afterwards. These people are messed up. For all that Hamilton protests that she doesn't write sex scenes unless they advance the plot, here's an example where the character development would have actually been advanced with one.

I'm also not a fan of having a character have their epiphany in the last three pages of the book. It's just so abrupt.