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 All right then, I'm going to start a vampire trilogy (or should I say vampyres) with a twist. |
Ooh, ooh, make them "vampweres" and cash in on both creature-feature genres. Honest undead citizens on most nights, every full moon they turn into sparkling clichés and spend the rest of the month studiously trying to forget they ever dazzled anyone at all.
This gives them angst, which they viciously repress and channel into productive farm and craftwork by which they support themselves and pay for roof repairs on their modest middle-class homes (rather than huge piles of ancient manor money).
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Originally Posted by Andreiuta
Sounds interesting especially if she's going to haunt/hunt/viciously kill those who desecrate her books.  |
You'll be wanting Michael Thomas'
Jane Bites Back for that. The premise is that Jane has been suffering from writer's block for a few hundred years while watching people pile up the dough from bad fanfic versions of her novels and has finally decided to do something about it.
Haven't exactly read it myself (I have the sequel out from the library), but the Kindle sample had some very healthy mockery of the prose and premise of the typical spin-offs and the gushing fans who gather around and praise the "author" while remaining fairly ignorant of the original source.
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Originally Posted by Andreiuta
I think it's Dane, his "bonded-mate," who's going to comfort him, though we might need to read the book to fully understand all the bonds.  |
How can I even hope to understand the bonds when I can't even keep straight who's officially attached to whom? But then, what's a little mate-swapping between matched pairs of brotherly mate-in-laws, eh?
Frankly, I can never read this book because the actual story can never, ever provide me with even a tenth* as much entertainment as the synopsis already has. Kind of like the D and F grade selections on Smart Bitches Trashy Books.
There is no possible way that bad erotica can live up (or maybe down) to a
hilariously funny review† of it, which is really the best way to experience these things.
* Possibly a sixteenth plus two-thirds of a sixteenth, since there are 1 mate + 3 other mates who are mated to each other and to the first mate + 1 other mate who only gets to be mated once to one of the second mates, so that makes 1x3 + 3x2 + 1x1 and now I think it's going to end up divided by zero and the fictional universe will implode with a syntax error.
† Warning for language. And sporfling. I will not be held responsible if the Gentle Reader is drinking anything while reading that.