Interstellar Service & Discipline: Fallen Star (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
I continue to like this series, but this book was not as good as the first. My biggest problem was with Fallon's character. At the beginning of the book, she is a fearless, smart, powerful, dominant kick-ass woman. After she is captured, she submits so easily and is completely at odds with the character originally. I was a little sad that she did not have a stronger spine like Victoria in the first book. Still a decent read. Yes, I realize that this is fantasy, but even in fantasy when a girl says no, it means no and when a man says I'll never force you to do anything you don't want to, and then forces her to ask for it, it's still rape. So many times I wanted Fallon to say, "You took away every ounce of dignity from me!" but instead, we are expected to believe that constant humiliation is romantic and falling for your rapist isn't Stockholm Syndrome at all, but the most profound source of love. The fact that Fallon had the inner voice of a middle-schooler made this even more creepy. I suppose this book is to feed a woman's fantasy of being taken and dominated, but allowing Fallon some shred of self-respect and a little maturity would have gone a long way to making this story more than empty mommy porn that feeds the dangerous assumption that when a woman says no, she really means yes.
What do You think about Interstellar Service & Discipline: Fallen Star (2010)?
A great read. I really enjoyed the twist.
—misanthrope
