I have not learned my lesson about the Anne Bishop thing.

I am not really in Anne Bishop's target audience. I think that I usually have a pretty good idea what she's trying to achieve with a scene, but the effect on me is often quite different:

What Anne Bishop Wants: Our hero Daemon has undergone such hideous abuse at the hands of evil women that he has no choice but to lash out violently! Be shocked and repulsed by the cruelty of this depraved society!

My Reaction: Okay, but I don't really understand why it means he has to cover things with ice.

What Anne Bishop Wants: Our other hero, Saetan SaDiablo, the High Lord of Hell (yes, Satan is one of our heroes), takes a bloody revenge on a child molester! Haha! Take that, child molester! JUSTICE!

My Reaction: I cannot devise an appropriate adjective for that scene where he pretends he's a child molester himself, to trick the guy into coming into his bedroom.

What Anne Bishop Wants: Thrill at the forbidden romance of the several-thousand-year-old serial killer sex-slave wizard and the sexually-abused pre-pubescent girl! He dresses up for her.

My Reaction: Please don't do that.

What Anne Bishop Wants: RAPES

My Reaction: You don't need to capitalize that.

What Anne Bishop Wants: CASTRATIONS

My Reaction: Is this part of some kind of system of weights and measures?

What Anne Bishop Wants: UNICORNS

My Reaction: ...I will accept these unicorns.

I think I'm just not very good at Anne Bishop.

( I bring this up because I'm reading a Dark Jewels anthology called Dreams Made Flesh... )