Once again, I have purchased a book from an author that I've sworn never to read ever again. I've done this a few times with this author, but always find myself so intrigued by her plots that I end up buying another of her books anyway.
Before I explain why I keep swearing off her books, let me first explain how I ended up with another one. I live in a tiny town. We have five restaurants (only two of which have drive-thrus) and not much else. The library is great because you can request books from other libraries. However, when new books come out the wait is usually pretty long. The closest thing we have to a bookstore is Walmart: one side of a small aisle is devoted to books with only eight feet of that actually devoted to fiction paperback. A vendor is responsible for stocking the books, usually at multiple stores. the vendor at the particular Walmart I shop at often doesn't stock new books until a day or two after their actual release date. This means I'm often stuck waiting until Thursday or later for a book released on a Tuesday.
The closest actual bookstore (Barnes & Noble) is an hour away from my house. I generally need an excuse besides books (or so my husband thinks) to make the drive to go to B&N. I happened to find myself in the city it's in the other day for something else entirely and couldn't pass up a chance to go. There wasn't a particular book I was looking for but I hate to leave without something. So I happened upon a book from this author I haven't read, and read the plot. And I suddenly HAD to have it. So I bought it in something of a daze and I will just pray I enjoy it.
Why the distrust of an author, you ask? Because her books are often the same: they basically devolve into nothing but sex scenes around the halfway mark. I read romance, I enjoy sex scenes. But they get tedious when the hero and heroine are fucking every chapter (guess how much I didn't like 50 Shades...hint: I couldn't get past the sample). Nothing is really resolved because every argument ends in sex. And I always end up losing respect for the heroines because they lose their self respect as soon as the hero touches them. But they get an orgasm out of it so it's okay, right? (No, no it's not. At all). I also always end up feeling like the author doesn't know how else to resolve things and needs a certain page count so SEX. Voila.
One of her books took such a crazy left turn that I vowed never to read her again before being sucked in by a plot that sounded amazing. And it could've been. Instead, the hero was an asshole and the heroine gave up every time they fought because he'd start kissing her. She went from being an intelligent woman to a quivering puddle of horny goo every time he touched her. So I made another vow not to read her again until a few days ago. Obviously I'm not great at keeping vows (except my marriage vows, lol). The book I purchased a few days ago is about 6th in line in a long line of to read books so I have some time to prepare myself. Here's hoping it goes better this time!
-Reader
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