SeverinR
Vala
I just read a torture scene last night and thought of this thread.
Mercedes Lackey, Arrows for the Queen, Arrows fall.
----spoiler----
Torture of an Empath, Not easy "seeing" the shy girl in the first book getting tortured as an adult in the third.
The author got it right. Not to much gore, hit the emotions, showing the added torture of feeling the emotions of the torturer(empath). When the torture was over, I felt relief when she had a way to end her suffering(and spoil her captors plans.)
The author even left the reader in the dark abyss with the character and moved to a scene back at home, so she isn't dead but has taken poison and passed out.
She takes you through torture but doesn't bore or get to graphic. No scream by scream comentary.
Mercedes Lackey, Arrows for the Queen, Arrows fall.
----spoiler----
Torture of an Empath, Not easy "seeing" the shy girl in the first book getting tortured as an adult in the third.
The author got it right. Not to much gore, hit the emotions, showing the added torture of feeling the emotions of the torturer(empath). When the torture was over, I felt relief when she had a way to end her suffering(and spoil her captors plans.)
The author even left the reader in the dark abyss with the character and moved to a scene back at home, so she isn't dead but has taken poison and passed out.
She takes you through torture but doesn't bore or get to graphic. No scream by scream comentary.
