House of Many Ways - Diana Wynne Jones. The third Howl book sees Charmain Baker, a stifled bookworm, sent to housesit for her Great-Uncle William, who's ill & is taken away by the elves to be healed...at the hands of Quinn was also sexual violence/torture. I... just get tired of it, I guess. Bring on the big explosions & weather going batshit--it's not violence per se that puts me off a narrative