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Great review from taminator on her blog...I hope I've brought you some diverse voices..
I get kinda pissed at people who review on Amazon sometimes. You'd think they'd been personally offended just because an author *did not do* precisely what they felt should have been done in the next installment of a series. I swear in some of the reviews they nitpick a novel to death so much I just want to scream!
Authors simply cannot make everyone happy by a)including every character ever introduced, b) making their characters do something because of what was done in the past, and c) make the book longer/shorter/less sexy/more sexy/, etc., etc., etc. I think some people simply delight in finding issues with a book a
nd then blasting them; this seems to happen most frequently with books in a series.
I personally loved Dead and Gone, the 9th Sookie Stackhouse book. I raced through it, even with a sick child and work, kicking myself frequently because now I'll have to wait a year for the next one. After I'd closed the book and moseyed on over to Amazon to begin my own review, I was simply amazed at the recent reviews that gave one, two, or three stars. You'd not believe some of the problems some reviewers had; I don't have a problem with a negative review when it's based on something solid, but when it's just a rant because the author didn't include character A or had character B do something the reader didn't like, it becomes about the reviewer wanting to direct the author's words and ideas.
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Dead and Gone Review : Back With Sookie...and Life is Good
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Well said! I happened to have enjoyed every single word of this book (i am now obsessed with this series!) and I loved the ending and will just have to wait to read the next one. That's what the TV series is for anyway! A nice way to pass the time waiting for the next novel!
Yes, I’m anonymous – don’t lynch me!! I am in the process of signing up for something, but I really do not like being able o be traced over the internet.
But please read what I have to say – I’m a genius!!
The thing that upset me about the Amazon reviews was that people gave it a low score because of the price!! In Australia we pay three times as much for any book - the American book prices are ridiculously cheap. It isn't fair to score Charlaine Harris' book low because of something she had nothing to do with.
I hope you wrote a good Amazon review. The fact these books are doing worse in the Amazon ratings than all the crappy Sookie wannabes is upsetting. Anybody who is a fan should go and post a five star Amazon rating. It’s crazy that the utter tripe written by most authors have higher ratings than Charlaine Harris’ quality writing, just because Sookie didn’t have sex with the ‘right’ man, or because you had to pay a couple of dollars more than you usually do –Americans have no idea how much people overseas have to pay for a book!!
Charlaine Harris is the only paranormal romance writer who has substance to go with the fun. I've read just about everything available and none of it is any good (for example, MaryJanice Davidson writes like a primary [elementary] schooler, and the less said about Stephenie Meyer the better). Instead of having childish reactions to Charlaine not writing for a teenaged fangirl's wish fulfillment, Charlaine is staying true to her characters.
Hell, I love Eric, Bill, Quinn, Sam and even Alcide so much I'm just excited to find out what happens in the end!!
"to" - I can't type well this far after midnight - and after this much Mother's Day wine (I'm not even a mother!!).
No lynching anony but it's really hard to discuss when you are discussing with anony.
I would recommend that you look into using Openid and/or setting up your own special online gmail account then there is no ability to trace back to your personal accounts ..it's very easy
Thanks so much for you comment though..
Well, giving a poor review based on the price of the book or because character A or B didn't do what the reader wanted is, to say the least, silly and childish.
But I have to say that Dead and Gone will never be my favorite book of the southern vampire series.
At first I hated it (I felt it was not up Charlaine's usual standart. Too confusing... Too many plots that were not really well developt... I had the feeling that pages were missing), but re-reading it I now feel it is OK. No more than that.
Hope the next one will make me feel different. But if it doesn't... Well, not the end of the world.
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I'll never question or be upset with Charlaine's choices because I love her work so much. There are things that happen that disappoint me but I'm just glad to read them.
What does bother me though, is poor plot development and lack of depth. Very akin to Stephenie Meyer. What was weird to me though, was that it didn't start lacking in detail until the last few chapters.
I don't need or expect an explanation for every thing that happens (mostly I'm glad if they're not because that means more books!) but I do expect more from Charlaine Harris in terms of writing skill.
I can't wait for the next book and I know it's going to be much better than DAG. Like someone else said, it will never be my favorite book in the series and that's perfectly OK. I just hope Charlaine brings back the good writing that made her so different from any other author for this genre.
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