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!

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[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.

[detritius]

Wow, could these women be anymore unprofessional? If I didn't know better, I'd think these acknowledgments were written by a twelve-year-old. And I shudder at the thought of Kristen Cast teaching, I really do.

I'm really looking forward to this sporking. After the first one, I have a morbid curiosity about this series, I guess. I feel like the first one will be hard to top in terms of badness, but at the same time, I get the feeling that this book will manage it somehow. Good luck to you!

[zelda_queen]

"I feel like the first one will be hard to top in terms of badness, but at the same time, I get the feeling that this book will manage it somehow."

It does. Really. You'll see.

"Good luck to you!"

Thank you very much!

[yemi_hikari]

She's supposed to be a teacher? I wouldn't want her teaching my kids, or any of the kiddos I know or any of the kids I hope to eventually teach, since I think I'd be undoing the damage she's done.

I've looked at the whole plot for the series. It is one of the most blatant Sues I've seen.

[detritius]

I've had some pretty bad English teachers myself, but none of them were ever nearly that dippy or unprofessional. I mean, my God. I hope the school board or a parent union or something takes action before she can do too much damage.

[yemi_hikari]

Agreed on that student thing.

[zelda_queen]

I don't know if Elliot was one of the people they used real-life people as inspiration for. Apparently they did take the name "Maslin" for Damien from one of the people thanked in Marked acknowlgements. No idea for Elliot, though.

[yemi_hikari]

I <3 disliking unprofessionalism. :)

Seriously, not cool.

[emmram]

"Aren't we fab and cool and so in with the times?"

NO. YOU ARE JUST ANNOYING.

I just wish authors would respect YA readers and not feel the need to step down to a lower level. The Casts seem to me like a perfect example of this dumbing-down.