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What they did in adapting Blood and Chocolate for the screen was akin to going into a slightly overgrown rose garden in order to weed it, and pulling out all the roses.

Clearly I'm capable of reading too much into it, having read it once for pleasure and once for pulling out every bit of its thematic argument, but the most interesting thing about the novel was how different its thematic argument was from the conventional story of forbidden love. If you turn it into a completely conventional story of forbidden love... just... WHY?