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Originally Posted by treadlightly
That's what the spoiler tags are for!  Can you give a chapter reference as a hint that I can go check out? |
Well, okay, it's not a specific reference but more an examination of her character arc, her history, and what she finally admits in #4.
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So in book #4 Rachel finally admits that she seeks out danger - dangerous men, dangerous situations - out of a need to feel alive. She's an adrenaline junkie of the worst kind. She subconsciously seeks out more than she can handle, and each time she ends up handling it anyway (albeit with help and usually a great deal of pain) she acknowledges the close call but consistently learns the wrong lesson from it.
Ivy finally gets her to realize that she's very powerful, and though she is a bumbling fool half the time, Rachel is extremely powerful. A witch like her shouldn't exist and, in fact, if not for the illegal intervention of Trent's father when she was a child, she wouldn't exist. What she is, is way more than she can handle.
Rachel Morgan is the equivalent of a five-year-old being put in charge of the Big Red Button. A witch has a lifespan of about 160 years. I don't think that will be long enough for her to achieve competency. In #4, we watch in stupefied amazement as she gets the whole way through the first demon curse without realizing that it's black magic and, in fact, she's shocked when she's told.
She's soooo not equipped to be what she is, and so I can forgive her.
