Re: juicylover09 (from GE)treesonMay 2 2010, 16:16:25 UTC
I agree on both points. Plus, lead girl (I've already forgotten her name) can get so damn annoying sometimes. Plus, I think she's part succubus or something. And I'm not a huge fan of infidelity (especially when it's not really very well explained-I mean, seriously? That sit came out of nowhere.) I still haven't gotten past the halfway point of Hunted.
Pierce is just. Not ugh but ugh. Y'know? Plus, okay hear me out. I started out reading my mom's Nora Roberts and other romances (smutty, smutty, filthy crap) when I was thirteen. I'm almost twenty now and I think I've generally got the romance plot down. There's a woman. There's a problem. Then there's the man, who is totally an asshole and possibly a criminal (if the lead is a detective.) The woman and man bat at each other for the whole book until, like, either right before the serial killer gets her, or right before the end of the book where it's shown he's the male equivalent of a stripper with a heart of gold. It always goes that way. (Except when it doesn't.)
Now, Rachel was supposed to fall in love with Trent. He came in at the right moment, he has (a sliver of) a heart of gold, and he's a total asshole. They're perfect, plus it's been foretold by the damn plot. So WHY does Harrison insist that Trent is not her HEA? or at least her Kinda Shady HEA? And then Pierce comes out of nowhere and I'm like WTFHARRISONGDIAF.
But that's just me.
On a related note, where the girl DOES get her fricking HEA, and it's a good story is the Modern Fairy Tale series. Um.. It's up there, the first title is Enchanted, Inc.. Now that is a good story, with a lead who isn't a succubus or an emotional retard.
I'm going to the library today, if another tornado doesn't try to touch down, and I'll look those up. I'm a little addicted to vampire stories lately, and I'm always a fan of boarding school books (have you ever read Prep by Curtis Sittenfield? OMG That is the best book ever and you just want to cry for weeks after it ends. Not that it's a tragedy, but that she perfectly captures humanity and its cruelty.
OKAY. SUPPOSED TO BE TYPING UP MY RECENT PAGES AND NOT JABBERING ABOUT BOOKS (but I so want to.)
Pierce is just. Not ugh but ugh. Y'know? Plus, okay hear me out. I started out reading my mom's Nora Roberts and other romances (smutty, smutty, filthy crap) when I was thirteen. I'm almost twenty now and I think I've generally got the romance plot down. There's a woman. There's a problem. Then there's the man, who is totally an asshole and possibly a criminal (if the lead is a detective.) The woman and man bat at each other for the whole book until, like, either right before the serial killer gets her, or right before the end of the book where it's shown he's the male equivalent of a stripper with a heart of gold. It always goes that way. (Except when it doesn't.)
Now, Rachel was supposed to fall in love with Trent. He came in at the right moment, he has (a sliver of) a heart of gold, and he's a total asshole. They're perfect, plus it's been foretold by the damn plot. So WHY does Harrison insist that Trent is not her HEA? or at least her Kinda Shady HEA? And then Pierce comes out of nowhere and I'm like WTFHARRISONGDIAF.
But that's just me.
On a related note, where the girl DOES get her fricking HEA, and it's a good story is the Modern Fairy Tale series. Um.. It's up there, the first title is Enchanted, Inc.. Now that is a good story, with a lead who isn't a succubus or an emotional retard.
I'm going to the library today, if another tornado doesn't try to touch down, and I'll look those up. I'm a little addicted to vampire stories lately, and I'm always a fan of boarding school books (have you ever read Prep by Curtis Sittenfield? OMG That is the best book ever and you just want to cry for weeks after it ends. Not that it's a tragedy, but that she perfectly captures humanity and its cruelty.
OKAY. SUPPOSED TO BE TYPING UP MY RECENT PAGES AND NOT JABBERING ABOUT BOOKS (but I so want to.)
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