Post by Janie on Jan 24, 2020 4:14:37 GMT -7
Hi All,
Seeing authors mentioned in your posts reminds me of some I have cut loose, too. I can’t think of any particular reason why that’s happened though.
Probably: Money Spent versus Enjoyment Received.
Was buying the Dark Carpathians series by Christine Feehan thru #9 Dark Guardian (2002) (C+ Hot). Got distracted and didn’t read another one til noticed at the Library #18 Dark Possession (2007) (C Burning). These last two weren’t awful but no desire to get caught up with it and continue on.
I was interested in her GhostWalker series and would have bought more, but after the first two none of them were to be found for sale in my town. Very Disappointing back in 2005 but life goes on.
Bought the first four Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward, ratings were 4/3/5/4 Stars and it was like Mari said... the weird names and repetition. It just wasn’t my thing.
I’d heard about Sarah MacLean for years but wasn’t til A Rogue Not Taken showed up at the Library that I read her. After that I did buy The Day of the Duchess when it came out (2017) but then read where she completely re-wrote it after the election. That is just too bizarre. I do plan on reading it someday since I spent money on it, but no enthusiasm there for it now. Won’t be buying any more of them.
I’m with Josie when the historical characters are acting and talking like contemporary, the charm is gone.
Bonnie, you mentioned Mary Balogh and it’s only recently that the repetition has made itself known to me. Honestly, I don’t know if this has always been so or if it’s a new bad habit with her. I’ve always appreciated in her dialogue that she didn’t use contractions (isn’t, won’t, don’t, can’t) because that’s not how people talked back then. I sped thru that newest Novella and was just feeling nudged to see if there was a contraction in it. I think there might be but that book has already been returned to the Library.
KC, I’d forgotten about the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. You lasted with her longer than me, I dropped it after #7 Seven Up (6/01). Just weary of the... will it be Ranger, or will it be Joe? Didn’t like LuLu. Just curious... did Stephanie ever get a future with one of them?
Dorothy Garlock died in 2018, she was 98. Up until recently Fantastic Fiction had her birth year as 1942 and I figured that was about right. But her real birth year was 1919. Makes me wonder if she didn’t think she would get published if those 23 years or so weren’t removed from her author profile. I was convinced she had an unacknowledged ghostwriter for many years, wonder who it was. I know my pleasure became less and less as the plots went to the nearer contemporary times, cars instead of horses, I guess.
So many books, so little time.
—Janie
Seeing authors mentioned in your posts reminds me of some I have cut loose, too. I can’t think of any particular reason why that’s happened though.
Probably: Money Spent versus Enjoyment Received.
Was buying the Dark Carpathians series by Christine Feehan thru #9 Dark Guardian (2002) (C+ Hot). Got distracted and didn’t read another one til noticed at the Library #18 Dark Possession (2007) (C Burning). These last two weren’t awful but no desire to get caught up with it and continue on.
I was interested in her GhostWalker series and would have bought more, but after the first two none of them were to be found for sale in my town. Very Disappointing back in 2005 but life goes on.
Bought the first four Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward, ratings were 4/3/5/4 Stars and it was like Mari said... the weird names and repetition. It just wasn’t my thing.
I’d heard about Sarah MacLean for years but wasn’t til A Rogue Not Taken showed up at the Library that I read her. After that I did buy The Day of the Duchess when it came out (2017) but then read where she completely re-wrote it after the election. That is just too bizarre. I do plan on reading it someday since I spent money on it, but no enthusiasm there for it now. Won’t be buying any more of them.
I’m with Josie when the historical characters are acting and talking like contemporary, the charm is gone.
Bonnie, you mentioned Mary Balogh and it’s only recently that the repetition has made itself known to me. Honestly, I don’t know if this has always been so or if it’s a new bad habit with her. I’ve always appreciated in her dialogue that she didn’t use contractions (isn’t, won’t, don’t, can’t) because that’s not how people talked back then. I sped thru that newest Novella and was just feeling nudged to see if there was a contraction in it. I think there might be but that book has already been returned to the Library.
KC, I’d forgotten about the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. You lasted with her longer than me, I dropped it after #7 Seven Up (6/01). Just weary of the... will it be Ranger, or will it be Joe? Didn’t like LuLu. Just curious... did Stephanie ever get a future with one of them?
Dorothy Garlock died in 2018, she was 98. Up until recently Fantastic Fiction had her birth year as 1942 and I figured that was about right. But her real birth year was 1919. Makes me wonder if she didn’t think she would get published if those 23 years or so weren’t removed from her author profile. I was convinced she had an unacknowledged ghostwriter for many years, wonder who it was. I know my pleasure became less and less as the plots went to the nearer contemporary times, cars instead of horses, I guess.
So many books, so little time.
—Janie