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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
All I did was list the couples' names and those were all available in the blurbs and you called them a spoiler. I don't see that any different from hinting at a scene that I would now be watching for and not get the enjoyment of the surprise.
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That was not Blossom, that was me and this is what I said:
Even the pairings that were mentioned earlier did not sit well with me because, while they're not spoilers, they affect how I read the books as I look at the characters with a new awareness. Maybe use the spoiler thingy when the series is being discussed?
Tying these two sentences together was probably not wise. I wasn't saying that blurbs should be put in spoilers. In the first I was expressing how I felt about the pairings being revealed, and in the other how I felt further discussion of the series should be handled.
I'm reading book 7 now and I never for once thought that that hero would get a book, and I thought the heroine had died. If I'd known about that pairing beforehand I know the 'surprise' of the revelation would've been lessened.
Sometimes I don't read the blurbs of upcoming books in a series and I learnt this the hard way. I was reading a romantic suspense where the heroine was being stalked and threatened by an unknown individual. I was 3/4 way through the book and I was enjoying it so much I went to check the blurb in the 2nd book. And yes, in that blurb they revealed the stalker. It's a few years since and I'm still upset about it
Obviously I don't do that for every series; it's a judgment call and one I felt was necessary for the Psy-Changeling because of the Ghost story arc. But ... these are
my issues and I apolgize for expressing them in a way that made people think they should put all discussion in spoiler tags. I'm just very sensitive about the whole thing. I last visited my Goodreads update page on Tuesday morning; I went there, saw the Heart of Obsidian book cover and I ran way and never went back
