I read the books and generally enjoyed them. But I did find the ending very strange. I am female but maybe I'm just used to the way he portrayed women.

I just came here to say, the second season of the show was sooooo bad. Not only did it not follow the book, it was just drivel. Everyone telling Geralt he's a father now but Ciri is almost an adult so it seemed really weird to me. Too much talking about emotions and not enough monster hunting.

I kind of wish the person who lent it to me had warned me, I was in high school at the time!

Same with Outlander. The person who lent it to me didn't say a word!

Ah, I really love a good Fairy tale retelling, so 500 Kingdoms was right up my alley. But the Fables graphic novel series is probably better.

Elfbane makes me so sad because I really loved the whole series and it will probably never be finished.

But yeah, she's hit or miss.

I really like the Obsideon trilogy and the 500 Kingdoms series. There is an attempted SA but it gets shut down pretty quickly.

Edit: and my favourite series Elf bane which may never be completed...

I read what I think was the first trilogy of books. Female main character. It was many years ago but I remember her being captured and then SA and etc., Especially having her foot broken.

Yeah, you've gotta check. There is a ton of sexual assult in the romance genre and I also avoid it like the plague.

I wish it was on the book like a rating. One of my favourite fantasy authors (Mercedes Lackey) had some pretty gruesome sexual assult in her Heralds of Valdemere series and I wasn't prepared for it at all. I have never returned to that series.

I do like his series where humanity has tried again on another planet. Memory of Earth is the first one I think?

I have been avoiding his recent works, they are just not as good. Alvin Maker is also interesting but unfinished and I didn't like the later books.

I like Magic Street a lot because I love A Midsummer Night's Dream but I also feel ambiguous about a novel where the main character is black being written by a white guy...

Oh I like that one!

The only character in Austen who displays what I consider ASD traits is Anne Steele from Sense & Sensibility. While many characters can't read a room, Anne tries several times to do things that are grossly rude, she has strange obsessions (the costs of Marianne's clothes and washing) and she never understands when people are lying. I'm no psychologist, but I do have a master's in cognitive neuroscience, so this isn't a complete layman's perspective.

Mr. Collins is just full of himself. He was also super lucky to get a living from Lady Catherine (livings could be sold for three times their yearly income) and is probably trying to flatter his way into another living (he could hold more than one).

Also, he is right, realistically, that Elizabeth cannot expect a better offer than his.