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Originally Posted by Atunah
I am basically only getting montlake titles at this point from the KOLL. When the progam first started, there were a few harlequin historials, but everything else was pretty much just self publishers. Then Amazon came on board with Montlake and so I have been adding books from it to a wishlist I can access on my kindle. So I have books planned to pick for a few more months out at least.
Like Blossom though, you go back the some of the "older" ones, especially historicals and then you wonder why one even bothers with trying to find gems among SP's. I am sure there are some, but I'll let others find them and then tell me. 
I think like Blossom said its the not wanting to do the research and pump out book after book in a short time. The books are also getting shorter for some reason.
I just want to read good books, not try to find the good ones. I now have to delete that freebie off my account as I agree with Blossom that its not done well. It reads stilted for lack of better word. Strange.
I am done trying books for the maybe. Heck, even if I'd never read a newly published book ever again, I have enough back list stuff to read to last me the rest of my life.  |
That how I feel when it comes to historical romance. I refuse the buy anything newer than 2005 as I think that was when the their was a huge turning point in historical romance. I prefer 80s and 90s mostly. I don't care for the forced seduction of the 80s but I tell myself that this was a different time period and yes it was too common. Women were abused and they had to make the best of it they couldn't just walk away like we can. Jude Deveraux really paints that picture in her books. I was reading The Velvet Promise and I thought to myself goodness the mother of the heroine is called a old lady too many times she is Thirty Three! It really was a different time back then wasn't it? lol
My problem with the free book was from the first sentence. Storage building? What The.......
Too modern right there off the first sentence tells me she didn't do research. It gets worse from there incomplete sentence structure and well it's just plain horrible. People did not talk that way back then.
Writing a medieval novel isn't easy it takes a alot of research and I believe that is why there is very little of them being published today.
Call me picky but I have read too much crappy books in 2013 that I am only picking up backlist titles when it comes to historicals and I'm being more picky about contemporary romance too.