DNF book pile in danger of crushing me
When I first started reading romance/PNR books I gobbled them down like brightly coloured (thankfully calorie free) candy.
Historical, modern, shifter, millionaire, funny, sad, horror, thriller, vampire - good, bad, indifferent - I read them all.
Those days are long gone. Too often of late I get three chapters into a book and find myself wading through sewage. The story inconsistent with the book blurb or just doesn't deliver - period.
What has changed? Is it me? Is it the industry?
I think it's probably a little of both. Certainly I'm older, pickier and more impatient but I think the industry has to take its fair share of the blame as well.
Often I find myself picking up a book - with a fantastic sexy cover, that inevitably has nothing to do with the actual plot/characters or book. But it isn't just the cool cover that's sucked me in, the book blurb sounds fresh, inventive and fun... then I start reading.
It's like some smart machine came up with the premise and handed it off to an author who couldn't deliver - or vice versa.
I think the simple truth as a reader is this - if the author writing the characters loves them, loves the plot... has to write this story or else dire things will happen to them - then that's the book I want to read.
So please lets have less smoke and mirrors from the publishers and more depth from the authors.
Historical, modern, shifter, millionaire, funny, sad, horror, thriller, vampire - good, bad, indifferent - I read them all.
Those days are long gone. Too often of late I get three chapters into a book and find myself wading through sewage. The story inconsistent with the book blurb or just doesn't deliver - period.
What has changed? Is it me? Is it the industry?
I think it's probably a little of both. Certainly I'm older, pickier and more impatient but I think the industry has to take its fair share of the blame as well.
Often I find myself picking up a book - with a fantastic sexy cover, that inevitably has nothing to do with the actual plot/characters or book. But it isn't just the cool cover that's sucked me in, the book blurb sounds fresh, inventive and fun... then I start reading.
It's like some smart machine came up with the premise and handed it off to an author who couldn't deliver - or vice versa.
I think the simple truth as a reader is this - if the author writing the characters loves them, loves the plot... has to write this story or else dire things will happen to them - then that's the book I want to read.
So please lets have less smoke and mirrors from the publishers and more depth from the authors.
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On a further note - I think that's why several series I've loved have got off the boiler. Author is tired, fresh out of ideas but publisher keeps pushing for more/faster - so we the readers get hasty/limp efforts.
Keep up the good work Jane.