Betrayed: Acknowledgments

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time. With Marked having been slain, we must now venture forth into the vile wasteland that is Betrayed. And mother of God, is this a stinker! We get all of the same obnoxious characters, horrible behavior, dead herrings, and forgotten plot as before, and now with even more Mary Sue fanfiction cliches!

Comments

[carakasla]

What the hell? What ever happened to nice, adult, professional acknowledgements who thanked family, the agent, the publisher, the fans, and maybe a couple of friends?

...Fuck you, Meyer. You started this stupid trend of childish acknowledgements.

Speaking of the Devil, I heard rumblings that she is going to write a spin-off with Jacob and the Death Baby. Take it as you will but I won't be surprised if we see it. It WILL be Twilight-related so there might be some truth to it.

[zelda_queen]

"Speaking of the Devil, I heard rumblings that she is going to write a spin-off with Jacob and the Death Baby. Take it as you will but I won't be surprised if we see it."

...I feel the urge to hide under my bed now. The only comfort is that Meyer is unable to actually finish anything she promises her fans.

And yes, these author's notes are just annoying. I don't even mind if they're casual, but I draw the line at continuous chatspeak.

[carakasla]

...I feel the urge to hide under my bed now. The only comfort is that Meyer is unable to actually finish anything she promises her fans.

I second hiding under the bed. I hope she doesn't finish it. Call me morbid, but I do wonder what the hell she has been doing since Bree Tanner because I doubt it's been writing anything she said she would.

Hey, I thought you were going to start Betrayed after the City of Bones group recap? What happened to that?

[zelda_queen]

What scares me is how Meyer continuously manages to make each of her works even more unintentionally frightening and squicky than the last. Twilight to New Moon to Eclipse to Breaking Dawn to Bree Tanner to the official guide, and now this. A relationship where, as Mervin pointed out, the baby wanted Jacob *the instant she left the womb*

Oh, I decided to do both at the same time. City of Bones is still going on, but I still need more recaps before I can start and I figured I might as well. I'm hoping to get CoB started up soon. That thing can't be sporked enough, and there's still the sequels. Oh, did you know that Cassandra Clare is writing several more sequels for the series? The fourth book, City of Fallen Angels, is coming out soon, apparently.

[carakasla]

I just wonder how much of the spin off she can write without Bella and Edward in it. Then again, she did write Bree Tanner. Maybe it will be another novella.

I heard about the other books. I think there is a prequel trilogy, the main trilogy, and I guess what is suppose to be the 'sequel' trilogy. By the way the publishing dates on her site looks, she is writing the prequel trilogy and the 'sequel' trilogy at the same time. Still, way too many book for so little plot. I don't even know how HoN is pulled into 8 books, the main conflict is so thin!

[zelda_queen]

She'll probably either make Nessie and Jacob into Bella and Edward 2.0, or shoehorn Bella and Edward into the plot some other way.

I know what you mean. And HoN is into eight books because the Suethors fill most of the books with fluff and have the characters continually forget or ignore the Bad Stuff that is clearly happening. Just wait for the climax of Betrayed. -_- There aren't enough walls to bang one's head against.

[yemi_hikari]

Basically, their dime store novels for YA. Particularly HoN. Enough said I think.

[yemi_hikari]

Well, if she does write the story and it does get published, I can imagine that it will serve to help end the Twilight series as there will be an uproar about the content, particularly in schools.

I actually know someone who likes Cassandra Clare's work and doesn't get why her having plagerized is a big deal. I've seen the first chapter at least sporked and I found myself... displeased greatly.

[yemi_hikari]

I like to pretend that the real reason she hasn't published anything more for Twilight or that other series is because the people know that they've milked the cow and if she publishes any more, she'll only ruin their chances of making money off the stuff they are already selling. Though... that also may be it. Each time she's published something her credibility has so gone down.

[aikaterini]

/Speaking of the Devil, I heard rumblings that she is going to write a spin-off with Jacob and the Death Baby./

Oh, dear Lord, NO. Please let those rumblings not be true.

[yemi_hikari]

Should we expect their acknoledgements to be professional when their writing isn't?

[zelda_queen]

That's a very good point.

[emmram]

Speaking of the Devil, I heard rumblings that she is going to write a spin-off with Jacob and the Death Baby. Take it as you will but I won't be surprised if we see it. It WILL be Twilight-related so there might be some truth to it.

Shaking. In. My. Boots. :O