Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap into Vision (Gap Series #2) Book

The main problem with this story was that the author seems to be under the impression that "rape victim" is a personality type. In the first book, the protagonist seemed to be intelligent and resourceful, despite terrible things happening to her. But her character never progressed or deepened, instead she (and other characters) were reduced to a few obvious traits or obsessions. Now, it might be believable that someone having undergone severe trauma would behave erratically, showing times of incapability mixed with moments of competence - but the protagonist always happens to be brilliant at exactly the time she needs to save herself or push the plot forward, and a powerful object in the story almost always works in the right way for her just when she needs it. She'll go from screaming on the floor to quickly doing something complex that we don't really understand (like how it seems she can recode the computers in a matter of minutes) in a sequence that becomes unbelievable after it happens more than once. But anything else about her besides her victim-ness is really uninteresting and underdeveloped.

I've seen a few comments to negative reviews saying - but but but the characters go through redemption! Believe me, the last thing I want to read about is these people getting rehabilitated. I give exactly zero fucks about redemption.