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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 1702815" data-attributes="member: 1288">Utterly irrelevant. He's the focus character. He's the lens through which we see the world. He's the character the reader has to deal with.And I got no enjoyment out of dealing with him, plain and simple.As part of the "modern world," I don't misunderstand that at all. I like flawed heroes. I like interesting villains. Hell, most of the novels I've written are about people you wouldn't want to invite over for tea, and who are either forced by circumstance into doing the right thing or--in a few cases--who don't do the right thing.That doesn't change the fact that there's a line for me, just like there is for everyone else. Covenant crosses that line in two different ways.1) Rape.2) He's effing annoying. Under the circumstances, I don't care how many burdens he's had, I don't care how realistic it is, I don't care what the author was trying to get across. The bottom line, for me, is that reading about him (or through him, or with him, or whatever) was an unpeasant experience. And not in the Schindler's List "this movie is unpleasant because of subject matter but is very important" way, but in the "Wow, I'd rather be folding laundry than reading this book, it's so bloody irritating" way.Evil characters or flawed characters, good. Characters that are irritating to read and turn the novel from a joy to a chore, bad.I can't count the number of times I've said "for me" or "in my opinion" in my posts on this thread. I'm not trying to tell people they shouldn't like this series, just explaining why I don't. I'm frankly getting a little sick and tired of people telling me "Oh, you didn't understand it." I understand it fine. I just don't like it. Kindly respect that fact.</blockquote>

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