Jen, with her armor off and her hands burned, puts the book in one hand as she delivers a mighty [b][i]Backhanded Slap![/i][sup]TM[/sup][/b] directly into your cheek, and it was forceful enough to knock you clean onto the ground.

[color=pink]"This book is hellish, Tobias. Do not fall victim to it."[/color]

You feel the book stop calling to you, possibly due to the deafened sense of reality that slap put you in.