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Delicate Condition

Registered by BarkLessWagMore of Merrimack, New Hampshire USA on 12/6/2024
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Journal Entry 1 by BarkLessWagMore from Merrimack, New Hampshire USA on Friday, December 6, 2024
AHS (American Horror Story) adapted Delicate for the newest season and the final half will be airing soon. I’m so excited to see what they do with this story and I hope they don’t do what they sometimes do and go off on weird and pointless directions.

I started this book in October (2023). Oh, what a simpler time it was. I put it down in November because it wasn’t grabbing me and I felt like I was too distracted to appreciate all it was telling me. This was back before the dumbass politicians in my country began to further fuck with a woman’s personal decisions and healthcare by saying fertilized eggs are now children so IVF treatments may be out of reach for anyone but the wildly wealthy. And maybe not even them unless they want to pay to keep their eggs on ice forever . . . It’s so disgusting and disturbing. Anyhow, I picked it back up a few days ago and with all of that going on it adds another layer of horror to this story that wasn’t there just a few weeks ago.

Anna and her husband Dex had a whirlwind romance, and they want babies right away but are having a difficult time and go the IVF route. Things seem to have worked just as Anna’s career has taken off. The IVF was beyond stressful and now Anna is experiencing strange and sinister events. When she tells the people closest to her, she’s met with disbelief and left feeling like she’s overreacting (Dex, you dick). As the book moves on (a bit too slowly, if you ask me) everyone from Dex to the doctors make her feel as if her pain is all in her head, that she’s being a bit hysterical - treating her like she’s a Victorian child in an old movie, one who can’t make her own decisions or who doesn’t know that something may be wrong with her own body. It is infuriating. I was infuriated on her behalf which is the entire point of the story. The horror part of the story is a bit tame compared to the real-life horror happening.

I feared this would be a simple Rosemary’s Baby retelling as things were slowly revealed but fortunately, I was wrong. I love being wrong like that! I’m giving this one a 3 because it felt too dragged out and kept losing my attention but it does have some very important things to say about how women’s pain is still treated in this day and age. It’s shameful, honestly, that we have to fight to be believed - if we’re ever believed at all. Anyhow, the ending was great. No complaints.

Released 2 wks ago (1/21/2025 UTC) at LFL - Thornton Rd (34) Thornton Park in Nashua, New Hampshire USA

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