I May Need To Hurt Someone...
Aug. 15th, 2004 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athersgeoSomeone 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.
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.
