Review: Courting Darkness by Yasmine Galenorn

Courting Darkness is the 10th book in an urban fantasy (emphasis on the fantasy side, though)/romance series that I continue to read despite not exactly enjoying it. What it has going for it, as a series, is that the three sisters as main characters are generally pleasant, and it's very much a gender role reversal from other series. Certainly I read lots with main female characters, but this particular series has the men... I'm not sure how to put it... they're present, they're thought about (it is romance a lot of the time), but they're not important. Basically, they're treated how women are treated in most fantasy.

This particular book wasn't terribly enjoyable. It was very focused on the sadistic father of one of the men, and his quest to rape the main character. Ick. Which does happen as well, though it's not described more than a bit clinically and then moved on. The book felt like... a self help novel for rape victims, so if that was helpful to someone, great, but it wasn't what I was looking to read.