When Love Goes Wrong......

[Alisa]

With Valentine's Day coming up everyone is talking about love. But what about when love goes wrong? It's happened to all of us. Everyone is talking about a book & how great it is and then you read it and......nothing. You want to love it, you want to understand what all they hype is but again.....nothing. Worse yet, what about the series that you started off loving? You look forward to the new releases and seeing what will happen next. But then over time the love starts to fade. You buy the new book, you try to connect w/the characters, you feel guilty, but at the end of the day you have to admit to yourself, the love is gone. No matter how much you try to get it back, it's just gone. So which books and/or series went wrong for you? Which ones do you think give love a bad name? (yes I did just quote Bon Jovi.....lol)

[Judith]

Bon Jovi makes for a great quote:) This is a mystery series, but I loved the beginning of Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley series, thought Great Deliverance was a nearly perfect book. Lately, though, it almost feels as though George doesn't like or respect Lynley, and she's beat up Sgt. Havers so much--made her so frumpy--I feel sorry for her. A disappointment.

[Sara]

Anita Blake by Laurel K Hamilton. Never have I crashed and burned on a series as hard as I did this one.

[Dawn, Desperately seeking new worlds]

Dark Hunters...I loved that series but now the last two are like WTF are you talking about?? Is this like the series that encompasses all mythology from every single culture. I am not giving up but I hope she gets it together

[Alisa]

Sara wrote: "Anita Blake by Laurel K Hamilton. Never have I crashed and burned on a series as hard as I did this one."

I completely agree. I really liked the first few books but this series went WAY off track for me.

[Alisa]

I have to say that there is a widly famous book I read a few months ago & I just cannnot get my head around it. I thought was well......a disaster. I liked Travis but I could not stand the female heroine. I thought she was mean and unkind to him on many occasions & I felt like she played games with his emotions. I really liked him at the begining of the story and I felt she really had emasculated him by the end, I really cant understand the wild popularity it did.

[Sandra J]

I've tried to read the Night Huntress books and Kenyon's series and can't get into either one.

[Dawn, Desperately seeking new worlds]

Sandra J wrote: "I've tried to read the Night Huntress books and Kenyon's series and can't get into either one."

You are not alone I have heard a few people say that.
For Dark Hunter series I think the first one is the weakest one if you do not like Night Pleasuresyou probably will not like the rest.

[Darcy]

Dawn wrote: "Dark Hunters...I loved that series but now the last two are like WTF are you talking about?? Is this like the series that encompasses all mythology from every single culture."

That was my problem with the last few books too. I think she should just concentrate on one. And maybe after 20 so odd books if you run out of ideas on your core mythology, it is the sign to wrap things up, not milk your cash cow.

[KarenF]

My problem with Dark Hunters is that it became torture, torture, torture. Literally. Each hero seemed to have to have a more horrific childhood than the last. When I got to Acheron, I had to give up.

Not PNR or UF but the series that's fallen off the most for me is Stephanie Plum. They were never great literature but the beginning of that series is so much fun. Now I feel like every single book is the same and since you can see it coming from a mile away, nothing is really funny anymore. And a love triangle dragged out over 19 books is way too long.

[Darcy]

Karen, I agree with you about Stephanie Plum. The books follow a very specific formula. I used to really look forward to the books, now I just plow through. I should give them up, but after 19 books I feel like I have too much time invested. Plus I am hoping at one point she will finally pick.

Have you noticed that the font and margins seem to be getting bigger with each book. I can read the book in so little time anymore.

[KarenF]

Darcy wrote: "Have you noticed that the font and margins seem to be getting bigger with each book. I can read the book in so little time anymore."

Yes, I totally agree. I stopped buying them when I realized I was paying hardcover price for a book I could read in a couple of hours (and I'm not the fastest reader ever). And I know what you mean about not being able to give them up. Even though I stopped buying I'm on the list at the library for every new release.

[Darcy]

KarenF wrote: "Even though I stopped buying I'm on the list at the library for every new release."

I get them from them from the library too Karen. I used to rush to the library the first day I could pick it up, but now I just wait until I go on my normal run.

[Alisa]

I totally agree about the Stephanie Plum books. I heard somewhere book 20 will be the end of the series. Not sure if it's true but I think it's time she wraps it up.

[Darcy]

I hope that is true Alisa, it is really time for the series to end.

[Judith]

For me, even her new "paranormal" series has the same feel as the Stephanie Plum books.

[Darcy]

Judith wrote: "For me, even her new "paranormal" series has the same feel as the Stephanie Plum books."

I thought the first was one was so so, I ended up dnf'ing the last one. I won't be reading any more of them.

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i know what you mean i laughed my way through all the srephanie plum books but its kind of a recipe book- like she goes out and someone gets kidnapped and someoine shoots someone and morelli does wtvr and cars are destroyed i agree with darcy im reading them just to find out who she chooses

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btw her other series are the exact same voices with different names doesnt matter if its the romances or the paranormal one