Friday, February 16, 2007
Don't you hate it when....
you have a favorite author, look forward to his/her next book, and you start it and it is tedious and you have to finish in hopes it will get better? I love Elizabeth George and her Inspector Lynley series. I can't remember any of hers that I haven't enjoyed. However, if this new one, "What came before he shot her," were the first of hers that I'd read, it would be the last. One of her key characters was shot and killed in the last book and this one details what led to her death. None of her regular characters is in it (at least 3/4 through it) and it describes a poor family and just about all the social ills you could imagine. It is depressing, sad, and getting through the Jamaican (?) or lower class black accents is tedious. Very disappointing....
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I do know what you mean. It would make me question my belief that this was the author I liked so much - I would think maybe I had the names mixed up.
Authors need to feel free to express their creativty, but if they have a line of characters/themes going, they should keep it. If not, they should start a new series, or create a stand-alone book exploring whatever area they have decided to now concentrate on.
But I also know you have recently undergone surgery and have a foot full of stitches and pins. Perhaps through the medication and pain you have read the wrong author? Hee hee heee
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