Rant: The League

OK, I love Sherrilyn Kenyon. I feel like I have to lead with that because I am so disappointed right now. I'm in the midst of a re-read of her League series, because my ARC of Caillen's book, Born of Shadows, is screaming at me from my Nook to come read it.   So I wander over to Kenyon's website, which I do whenever I read her books, because it is filled with those great character pages. And then I see that she has a page set up for the next League book, Born in Silence, featuring Darling as the lead!  I clicked on it and my heart sank.

Darling is paired with a woman. What's wrong with this?  If you are asking that question, you've never read the League books. Because in them, Darling is GAY.  He has no history of liking girls in any way. In fact, his uncle beats the crap out of him for having relationships with men. In Born of Night, Nykyerian says plainly, "Darling isn't attracted to women."  He has a daughter in Born of Ice, but no mother is mentioned and it never even occured to me that she might have been conceived the old-fashioned way because such a fine point was always placed on his sexual preference.

Before I clicked onto the page, when I saw his name next to the book, I thought to myself how proud I was of Sherrilyn Kenyon. That it was kind of brave that she was giving the gay character a book... how I wish JR Ward would do the same for my beloved Qhuinn and Blay... and then... it's not that at all.  Frankly, I'd much rather him not have a book at all than to change his character to suit a M/F formula.  I wish I had never seen this.