Those books have a lot of issues, but their naming of the Antichrist is perfection. It did have the unintended consequence of turning an entire generation of readers from the American South against any moderately attractive European man for fear that he was the camouflaged Antichrist. I’m serious—if you are from the South and read those books and don’t find yourself being intensely skeptical of Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig, you are a trillion percent lying.
