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So the Alpha & Omega series is still on my reading list but I won’t be assuming that it’s a comfort read anymore. The relationship between Anna and Charles was still given prominence and was still essentially mutually redemptive but most of the story emphasised vulnerability and the permanent nature of the scars that abuse leaves. In this story, that element seemed to be lost. But, up to now, the thrust of the story was about Anna and Charles helping each other recover from that abuse. Charles is constantly placed, by his father, in a role that demands so much violence from him that he had begun to see himself as a monster. The phrase Alpha and Omega is derived from the one that quotes God as being the Alpha and the Omega in Revelation 1:8, 21:6, and 22:13, and is clarified two times with the extra title the beginning and the end. They are a Christian symbol that also represents God as used in the Book of Revelation in the Bible (Gauding, 2009). Anna was a long term victim of sexual and emotional abuse. Alpha () and Omega () represent the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. The Alpha & Omega series has always been about abuse. So, no there weren’t any exploitative scenes of sex or violence but why choose this plot? This whole plot pivoted on using power to make people helpless, to take away their dignity, and to subject them to physical and emotional abuse that robs them of their sense of self. Normally, I’d add that none of this nastiness was gratuitous but, in a way, it was all gratuitous. The ‘solution’ to the problem involved traumatic, life-changing violence. This is a simple graphic of the symbols for Alpha and Omega, stacked on top of one another, representing the concept of God as the Alpha and Omega. Their victims include the two main female werewolves in the ensemble cast. The catalogue of their crimes includes abduction, rape, enslavement, torture, mind control and the sex trafficking of children. Patricia Briggs gives us two sets of evil to contemplate here: the Hardisty witches who we’ve met before and who only become worse on closer acquaintance and another, mysterious force that steals memories and feeds off fear and pain.
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Without them, how would we know who the good guys are? Especially when the good guys turn into wolves and that kill efficiently and with a certain amount of glee. I understand that it’s reasonable, maybe even necessary, for a writer to write bad guys who are fundamentally evil. Mostly because the more I read, the more abuse there was. It was an above-average Urban Fantasy story with a strong ensemble cast that I know well, a set of deeply evil opponents, some well-done fight scenes and a slightly uneven pace. I wrote a post about my thoughts trigger warnings and reading about abuse in ‘Wild Sign’ but decided to continue on with the book. It made me realise what trigger warnings were for because it pulled a couple of my own. I slipped into ‘Wild Sign’ expecting more of the same but, about a third of the way through the book, I almost set it aside. I especially enjoyed the last two books, ‘Dead Heat’ and ‘Burn Bright’.
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・。゚。゚.Patricia Brigg’s Alpha & Omega books have become a comfort read for me. Three tracks going from nu-disco to pumping house in such a smooth way! This time our long-time favorite LOG brings a short but intense house EP, including a remix by theBasement Discos regular Mr. Bandcamp | Ī new music delivery served by French talent.