Helen Montgomery

Maincharacter is woman working in a very male oriented profession wich is that of a torturer in a noblehouses dungeon. Its a family profession.

But she is so bad at it the prisoners make fun of her and she is asked if shes ever considered becoming a scullery maid. As it is now she cant become a member of the Torturers Guild wich is what it will take for her to stay on in her position.

Its decided that ff she can "break" her boss through torture in an alotted time frame she will gain membership in the Torturers Guild.

spoiler>She fails but starts crying and the guy becomes alarmed and says please stop crying,if she will just stop crying he will make her a member of the Guild. Because women crying is so terrifying to men ITS WORSE THAN ACTUAL TORTURE? :/

This..was an interesting idea for a story but I was uncomfortable with the maincharacter being so at ease with the actual torturing of people and wanting to pursue it as a career.And no not its not supposed to be tiltillating or something for the bsdm crowd. Its just a job for her.

Thought it would end up with her realizing that torturing people is BAD

I guess I should have known it wasnt my thing ever since I read[b:The Shadow of the Torturer|60211|The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)|Gene Wolfe|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1329650008s/60211.jpg|762497] by Gene Wolf but when you consider yourself an adventurous reader you cant help but think that maybe just maybe this strange sounding book will be so weird that it turns good.

In the end all I can say about this one is that it tried for humour but if anything its a very black comedy.

I didnt laugh.… (més)