Book Review: Heather Gladney, Blood Storm

[naamah_darling]

I know you like it best when I hate a book. So I give you:

22) Blood Storm, by Heather Gladney, 276 pages

You all read what I thought of the first book. Well, this one doesn't redeem my negative opinion. Heather visibly improves, but that does not make the flaws of this book less glaring, or more forgivable

Comments

[vivian_shaw]

*helpless with mirth*

He should have a support group. Incontinent Pathetic Heroes Anonymous.

Granted, most of my protagonists end up getting something unpleasant and pulmonary, but then they're not supposed to be heroes.

[naamah_darling]

XD

A racking, bloody cough is sexy, though.

Pooping on yourself in the midst of a fit? Not so much.

(And heroes can have coughs. Doc Holliday, yo!!!)

[vivian_shaw]

I need an icon that says "Naamah is the light of my life and the joy of my existence" in order to save typing it out all the damn time.

I dunno, I find hemoptysis sexy as hell, but then I am strange.

[naamah_darling]

XD

Not so strange, I think, considering I feel the same way. It's just . . . well, damn. It's hot, okay? It just is. I can't explain it.

Any more than I can explain why eyepatches are sexy. Limps are sexy too (if they're from old wounds it just makes me wobble). Facial scars are sexy. Ask my husband how many of my characters have had one of the above. Just ask. Because it's loads and loads, I tell you.

Bloody cough should be next on the list. I actually haven't done that, and now I feel like I really should.

[flewellyn]

Well, to be fair, not caring is perhaps not quite as bad as virulently hating.

Or, is it worse?

[naamah_darling]

As a reader, it's better. As a writer, it's worse.

[camel_pimp]

Ya know the name of them books...aren't they the same of that ultra-bloody video game that Bart of The Simpsons wanted and eventually ended up stealing?

[ankara_myrsky]

y'know, it really frightens me the kind of muck that gets published

[naamah_darling]

I loved Dune, but I had it read to me, and that appears to have made a real difference. None of the sequels are worth bothering with.

King annoys me, and my husband refers to "The Tommyknockers" as "The Cock-knockers."

Heh. Bad books are fun.

[wizwom]

Since you nkew you couldn't finish the Trilogy, and the first book annoyed you so, why did you read this? Did you think the writer would reform?

[naamah_darling]

I didn't actually know it was a trilogy until I had read the first one and did some research. I have a thing (meaning "major disorder") that I cannot put down a book in the middle of reading it, nor can I discard a book without reading the sequel(s) if I have it/them to hand. I make exceptions, but the books have to be very, very, very bad, and usually if they are THAT bad, they're fun to read.

I have found some good books as the result of this policy. The first third of Dune is impenetrable, but the rest is great, and it's one of my favorite books.

[wizwom]

So, then you did hope the writer would reform, as Frank Herbert did, in your estimation.

Actually, I personlly thought Dune much better than Dune Messiah or, indeed, any of the sequels. ChapterHouse Dune was really, really bad.