3rdragon

Eeep.
I always forget what a terrifying book this is. And maybe other people wouldn't find it so, but to one day be a happy, independent businesswoman, and the next to discover that the law thinks you're married to a man you've never met, that he's legally the father of your child and owns all of your assets, that all of your personal records have been falsified, and the system is against you, and your friends are away and there's no one who can argue in your defense, and you don't know who or why but clearly someone hates you and has been planning this for a long time . . . That scares me. A whole lot more than blood and gore and inhuman monsters.

I think it's because I can much more easily believe that it might happen. That if someone were rich and powerful enough and had enough hatred, such a thing could be faked, and while properly laws are rather more modern, I think that the bureaucracy is just as bad.

That's not entirely it, though. It also has to do with the way a comfortable, safe world can suddenly be thrown into chaos, and there's nothing you can do about it. Because that also scares me. Waking up one morning to discover that the world is not what you thought it was, that the things you know to be true aren't, that your most basic assumptions are no longer valid. Because, I suppose, that sort of continuity is one of the things that I take for granted.

So. Scary book.