Douglas’s Comments (group member since Jun 15, 2017)

Douglas’s comments from the Read, Reading, Planning to Read and More group.

"perfectly okay with Hawke and Sienna. " - exactly what many people are saying, these are VERY long lived people and the age thing can be hard to wrap your head around but I do not remember hearing any of this when your example was published :)

Well here is some Jane Yellowrock news I missed last month, from Faith Hunter, apparently Dark Queen was going to be the last book originally:

"I have another bombshell. Don't tell but ... I had thought DQ was going to be the last book. I had it all worked out. In fact I had it mostly written.

And then ACE asked me to write two more JY books, 13 and 14. And I thought I might have more story to tell so I agreed. This meant two things:

1) I had to introduce one new-ish plot line near the end. Well it wasn't totally new. There are hints all through the last 6 books. You'll go, OH! YEAH!

2) And I sorta killed off a lot of characters. And I really killed off the others. Read that carefully. There's a difference. Mud says I play with people's brains.

And while I cleared up all the threads from DQ itself, this means that the end of Dark Queen has two sorta cliffhanger-ish threads. I KNOW YOU HATE CLIFFHANGERS! But I had no other way to do it.

SO. There. You have my second confession. Sigh.
Do you hate me?"

and of course being a big fan of cliffhangers I told her yes I would hate her :)

Anyone read this? I stumbled into it and it was really "shiny" and FREE on KU :)

The Dragon at the End of Forever: The Coming of Darkness

@LAB - the whole thing can be summed up with your last sentence :) "But better editing could've avoided this issue."

@Vinity - I would be curious to hear if this was something just overlooked or if it had an actual purpose since it really does not line up with previous books but again, it did not have any consequential bearing on THIS story IMHO but it does raise a ton of questions. Unless she really WANTED to include this in the book (no idea why) I have to think any decent plot editor would question this ....

@LAB - yes some of the reviews were WAY over the top and turned one sentence into a whole discussion that had little or no meaning for the story or the book. It ranked right up there with getting mad because of a fictional political stance, I get as involved in these books as anyone but this one seemed to get stupid IMHO and threw out everything we have known about Bran in all the previous books PLUS the lady has had a very rough time and I will give her some slack I don't care what she may have inadvertently stated (and where was her editor???)

Lake Silence gets a slightly slow start but a really good story, the only consistent negative I have heard from anyone is about the heroine, mostly her "affliction" seemed to be a bit overdone IMHO but for me it did little to lessen the enjoyment but we are all different :)

"I hate when the bad guys survive to the next book." - I just started a trilogy that the same shadowy bad guy will be there in all three books, I also HATE that but promised to read them before I realized it :(

So far we have a high body count, some unbelievable murders that nobody saw in broad daylight and pretty much something that comes close to insta-love ... the overall story is very good or I would have already made my apologies and DNFed the thing.

Well I promised a nice lady at St Martins I would read these books and so far the first one is looking good, looks to be a mystery/romance thing.

Darkest Night
Deadly Secret

re: Vicki (Lake Silence) - her "affliction" was a bit overdone but it did not take too much from my enjoyment.

I finally finished The Wall of Winnipeg and Me and really did enjoy it , especially her description of running the marathon

I see I was not the only one that felt like Burn Bright was SO much better than the last book in either series

BTW, needed a break in genre so I grabbed The Wall of Winnipeg and Me and if you folks had not said it was so good I would have DNF it in the first few chapters, she was being such a terrible doormat, it is getting good now :)

re: The Sunbird - I hope so too, several books that were favorites of mine seem amateurish when I read them now but I think this one will hold up based on what I remember and the fact that they keep republishing it :) In reading up on the book he was a screen writer and decided he wanted to be an author and wrote a book that they could not possibly make into a movie (this in the 70s) although the movie rights were eventually bought it would take a huge budget to make it. Quite a lot of locations and centuries apart.

OK, 12 hours and 3 posts, who killed the forum?

There are books we have all read that we never really forget and pieces of them pop up in our minds from time to time, This is mine, I read it probably back in the late 70s or early 80s and it has just been released once again in Kindle in Jan 2018 so I think I will buy it again and see if it still holds the same attraction it did back then, seems a lot of people liked it and I really thought I was in a vast minority. I still remember most of it and the ending is bittersweet for me. It has its own WIKI page :) It treads a path between fiction/historical fiction and paranormal exceptionally well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun...

The Sunbird Goodreads

Latest Amazon release on Kindle
www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B0789168GH/

I finished the last "Rider" spin-off book Dangerously Fierce and loved it but hope it is not the end of the series. I have not heard anything about future books

Burn Bright was probably the best book in the Mercy universe (both series) in the last 3 maybe 4 books IMHO

Vanessa wrote: "Doug... What is that? I haven't heard of Grace co-writing a book."

Dana Marton & Grace Draven both just announced it today, both stories have been written for a long time but never published as I understand it, they plan to release it later this year since it is pretty much just a publishing effort and not a new writing effort. More info here:

www.facebook.com/dana.marton.3/posts/...

Well this was a surprise!

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