I remember being seriously wigged by what happened with Christopher.
I think I might have been wigged more if I had a brother or the likelyhood of ever getting one. As it was, the whole incest thing was more theoretically ewww-some than anything. On the otherhand, non-con sex? Followed up with later marrying the guy? That was something that I realized could happen to me (well, the former anyway). I was reading a bunch of Harlequin romance novels at the time that were using that as a recurring theme. I read the whole thing as, "It's ok if he rapes her if he loves her and marries her later." And I had a big hell, no! reaction.
Yeah, I can't read any of those.
Ew. Someone told me the FitA books were horror, which, except for consuming all the Alfred Hitchcock short story anthologies that were published and some Stephen King novels, I avoid. So I did and I'm glad. I didn't know it was about incest until now. Ick.
I thought if my brother and I spent that kind of time locked up together, only one of us would come out.
Me, too. Him.
But in
Heaven
she didn't do anything with her brother!
She slept with her uncle though.
Grandfather tried to rape her.
Yeah, I ain't helping.
In my case, Java, either way, bonus.
We were at the height of sibling aggression. Even now, we'd better not get locked up together.
My teenaged porn, aside from the actual porn (wow, that Candy was sure one dumb broad), was sci-fi. There was one series that had these lizard men with bipartite penises. Embarassingly, my parents still have my copy of ... whatever that was. And of course, Jondalar. Mmm, good.
Heaven is the one who grows up backwoods hillbilly poor, has a crush on her (alleged) half-brother, a sexual relationship with her foster father, then ... help me. I remember she moves in with her birth mother's family and sleeps with someone there, but I don't remember whether it's her step-grandfather or what.
And doesn't she, like Dawn, ultimately marry a boy she was raised as a sister to? Or am I making that up?
I never connected the incest in V.C. Andrews to my actual personal brother, probably because he was about 11 when I was reading them and barely registered in my self-involved teenage mind. And also because ewwwww.
Seconding the ewwww but otherwise, I did think there was some interesting potential in the first one...but the others, yeah, not so much.
There was one series that had these lizard men with bipartite penises
I think I read that Star Trek fic...oh, wait, isn't that what you meant?
Dawn married who?
