Oh, The Disappointment Bites

[redbrunja]

For one glorious moment, when I saw this title: Men of the Otherworld I thought Kelly Armstrong had fulfilled my wildest dreams and wrote an awesome, glorious books focusing on one of her best characters ever, Lucas Cortez. *fangirls*. (FYI, Paige Winterbourne, his awesometastic wife, is the best character she ever wrote).

But noooooo, it's about stupid Clayton, who only exists so Elena, this series' resident Mary Sue can get her rocks off. (And yes, that is very, very harsh, and it's not that bad, but Elena has a WAY too high ration of angsty trauma to everybody-thinks-she's-gorgeous-ness.)

Also, Patricia Briggs continues to sell her soul to the popular kids, instead of writing winning and original fantasy. Want to bet this one has a contractually obligated everybody-loves-the-heroine clause too?

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I live for the day Patricia Briggs decides she doesn't really need to eat and goes back to writing medievaloid fantasy.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Same. I mean, yeah, I want her to be successful, but fuck, the Mercy books where SUCH a huge drop in quality. If the same name hadn't been on both of the, I wouldn't have believed it.

[digthenym.livejournal.com]

I just read the YA book that Armstrong wrote and am tempted to pick up the Women of the Otherworld series, I'm just a little scared as I keep hearing horrible things about the first one :/

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed the first one. It's been years since I first read it, but I read the first two, and I am forever grateful, because the third is 'Dime Store Magic' which I adore beyond all reason.

[lynnxlady.livejournal.com]

I don't mind Elena all that much, but I definitely find all the other characters (and for that matter, all the other werewolves) WAY more interesting than her and Clay.

(Paige/Lucas is one of the best pairings EVER, btw. Along with Jaime/Jeremy.)

Oh, and hey, there are books in the Women of the Otherworld series after No Humans Involved, which is the last one I read, sweet! Though I can't remember for the life of me who Hope is.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I don't mind Elena all that much, but I definitely find all the other characters (and for that matter, all the other werewolves) WAY more interesting than her and Clay.

Same. I mean, I liked her well enough to read two books with her in them, but once I mean Paige I was like, 'hot damn, honey, where the hell have you been hiding!'

I honestly think the majority of Armstrong's characters are more interesting than Elena and Clay particularly.

Unless you've read a collection of short stories by different authors in which the only one worth anything was the Armstrong one, you haven't met Hope yet.

[misora.livejournal.com]

Want to bet this one has a contractually obligated everybody-loves-the-heroine clause too?


This sounds like the Anita Blake vampire series by LKH. And her Merry Gentry series too, while I'm at it.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It's because of LKM popularity that it became contractually mandated for authors like Patricia Briggs.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

And so uit became the ultimate plague on UF, causing me to be about 80% alienated from the genre.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I won't even buy them anymore unless they've been recced from sources as burned as I am, and look in vague terror as the couple I picked up at the booksale.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Poor girl.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

One is Greywalker by Kat Richardson. I think Justine Musk is the name of the author of the other.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I couldn't get into Greywalker. I wanted to -cool cover, set it Seattle, but honestly..... I bored me. Let me know if it picks up after the first 50 pages, and I might give it another shot.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

From what I can tell, it's like A Kiss Before the Apocalypse: awesome concept, not-so-awesome result.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I just picked that one up! The cover blurb sounded good 'cause it had werewolves (which are my weakness) and it was getting away from the Mercy series which I was finding tiresome.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Okay, first read the first Armstrong book, Bitten.

Possibly before that, read Blood & Chocolate (Annette Curtis Klaus), Kitty & The Midnight Hour, and The Silver Wolf.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

*shuffles 'to read' pile accordingly* Gotcha.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I liked the Mercy series quite a bit, though I haven't really read any other Patricia Briggs.

But the summary of this one... it sounds bad. Finding out she's super-special *and* destined to "mate" the pack leader? Blegh. What I liked about Mercy's portrayal was that her powers were cool to someone who doesn't have any at all, but she was surrounded by people who were far more "special" than her, even when she did finally learn how to use her ability against the vampires.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was reading it and going, 'Seriously, Patrica? Seriously? Did you go to safeway and take every bad cliche off every urban fantasy you could?'