I was fiddling around with a site where you can rate books, and I suddenly wanted to remember a series I started a number of years ago that I hated. Hated! I can remember little:
There’s a group of teens or young adults.
They get sent to another world.
One of the girls/women is brutally raped.
That’s all I can remember, other than that I hated it. Hated! More than one book, I think. My memory is clouded by the Hate!
Best guess is The Fionavar Tapestry (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire and The Darkest Road) by Guy Gavriel Kay. I loved them myself.
That they were in University sounds right, though the title doesn’t.
I’m a little disappointed if it’s Kay. I didn’t think I had ever read him and was looking forward to reading him based on so many recommendations.
I remembered one other thing. I think one of the characters, in getting sent to the other world, turns into a troll or a dwarf or an ogre or some sort of character who is immensely strong but maybe not very bright.
No, not Fionavar. It’s Joel Rosenberg’s Guardians of the Flame series.
Read Kay, but my recommendation is to stay away from Fionavar. It’s far and away my least favorite work by him: cliched and derivative and clumsy. There are some good moments in them, but you have to wade through a lot of tripe to get to the good parts. His other works are much better. Sailing to Sarantium might be a good one to start with.
Daniel
There are, so far, 11 books in the series.
IIRC (and it’s been years), it starts out with a gaming group at a university, game-mastered by one of their professors. In reality, the professor is an evil wizard who sends them to the game world where they become their characters. The one who gets turned into a dwarf was disabled and in a wheelchair in the real world, and was very bitter that when he finally gets to become a normal person, he ends up a twisted caricature of a human anyway. The group of kids meets a dragon who is slaved as the waste disposal for the city they end up near, then become crusaders against the institution of slavery on the game world. The girl who was a cleric gets raped brutally and has to go through years of therapy with her clerical order. I think they eventually escape, but realize they have to go back for some reason and do so.
The rest of the books are pretty much a completely faceless mass to me, though I know I’ve read up to number 8 or so.
Aha. Yep. That’s it. I just read some reviews on Amazon and they mentioned some character names.
God, I hated that book.
Will do, cap’n. I’m just glad this book wasn’t his!
Both women in the group get raped, the cleric girl ends up catatonic until treated. The dwarf goes berserk, breaks free and releases the others.
Most of the female characters are or were raped at one point. Honestly, I got to the point where I wanted something like a rain of neutron bombs to hit the place.
Just chiming in to continue the hijack and agree wholeheartedly with this. I love everything else of Kay’s I’ve read, and I’ve read just about all of it, but Fionavar is one of the very few books I’ve ever tried to read and have been unable to finish. It seemed like whenever I was just about to get into it mentally, something in it reminded me of some other book where something similar to what I was reading was done better, which jolted me right out of the moment.
I am not alone! 
Good to know. Fionavar is the only thing I’ve read by Kay, and I really Did Not Like it. Not rain-of-neutron-bombs hate, but definitely no great fondness. Maybe I’ll try something else by him.