I May Need To Hurt Someone...

[athersgeo]

Someone on my flist has got me reading Suzanne Brockman.

If I *EVER* turn out something as nausiatingly saccarine and *slow* as the one I'm currently reading ("Unsung Heroes" - for those who may wish to avoid it), please, please, please, please, PLEASE!!! Kill me. Slowly. And Painfully. For ever thinking it's a good idea.

I mean, God forbid this woman actually move the plot along. No. Let's spend many, many nausiating pages describing two adults having naughty sexual fantasies about each other without realising that the other one is attracted to them.

Then there's the slightly weird - and completely unconnected to the main plot (as far as I can see) - relationship being set up with the hero's niece and a graphic novelist artist.

The only actually good bit, so far, are flashbacks to World War II - but there's not enough of that storyline to carry the rest of the book, and the real plot (which is some sort of terrorist activity) is way too slow to start. I mean, I'm into chapter nine and so far it's just been mentioned as a sideline. That is now, FINALLY, starting to change, but seeing as I bought the book expecting thriller first, romance second, I'm more than a little peeved.

Comments

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

was that lil ole me? :)

i never said she was good. i just used her as a point of reference because that woman sells books. catherine coulter isn't that great either, she tends to be overdramatic and recycle her storylines, BUT she sells books as well. just saying, it's important to scope out the market, see what you are up against.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Yes, you ;)

And no, I realise you didn't say she was good; but *shudders* you could have warned me she was this bad...

And I DO have to wonder how the heck she does sell books...

[cmar-wingnut.livejournal.com]

Ever read Barbara Cartland? I read a couple of her books; thought they were boring, predictable, full of unsympathetic, improbable characters, and too dumb to even finish. Yet her stuff sells like hotcakes.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Can't say I've ever had that displeasure - and I can't say I'm going to change that, either!

It's just further proof that crap will always get read in bigger quantities than the good stuff.

Suzanne Brockmann

[sunfire1216.livejournal.com]

I read her extensively and I've not really a fan of her Troubleshooters series(which is The Unsung Hero) but I do like her Silhouette Intimate Moments: Tall, Dark, and Dangerous. Those aren't bad. The WWII flashbacks are the best part of her books though, she has them in most of them. I have the first 6, haven't bought the 7th yet because it's in hardback and I've heard it's not that good. I loved the flashbacks in The Defiant Hero, but the heroine in that book is the most annoying person I've ever read about and that's saying a lot. The flashbacks in Out of Control is pretty good too.

Re: Suzanne Brockmann

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

The trouble is: Flashbacks do not a book make. Yes, the flashbacks are good - in fact, the ones I've seen so far in Unsung Hero (always assuming I can make it to the end of the book) are some of the best WWII writing I've seen in a long while. Unfortunately, that just makes me more annoyed at how BAD and disjointed the rest of the story is, particularly given that I was expecting this to be much more of a thriller. I think, had I realised it was much, much more of a pure romance I wouldn't have picked it up in the first place because pure romances haven't been my thing, really, since I was 13 and reading teen romances.

Re: Suzanne Brockmann

[sunfire1216.livejournal.com]

I don't read pure romances either, I need something more than people whining about how they feel about each other. If you've gotten far enough to read about Sam and Alyssa meeting, they're around for about 5 more books before they get together. It was horrible.

Re: Suzanne Brockmann

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*shudders*

Many thanks for the advance warning; I think I'll pour bleach into my eyes before I read that!!!