I will tell you the real problem with Fifty Shades of Gray.

[snarp]

The problem is that the softcore Twilight BDSM fanfic has apparently outsold the softcore Lymond Chronicles BDSM fanfic. This is sad.

(I base this assertion regarding Kushiel's Dart's true nature on 1) general plot structure, and 2) there being dudes named "Piero" and "Strozzi" in close proximity in the fourth book.)

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[snarp]

Well, if he's there, then he and the people who resent him for being too perfect and talking too much are probably somehow responsible for all the political chaos that accumulates between books for Phedre/Imriel/Moirin to tidy up. (The stuff Melisande didn't do, I mean.) Like, Raphael in the Moirin books is just bad because Lymond didn't love him.

So, he's trashing things for you! How considerate of him.

[salinea]

Lol