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

[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.