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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Nope, no shitty comments. Just honesty about the book.
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Uh...something tells me, Cin, that you and he may have different tiers of distinction between honest comments and evil ones. :-)
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The author made some unbelievable statements that his editor should have caught and said something about.
The book was just not up to the standards his readers expected.
It seemed like he started listening to the wrong crowd.
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Was this a traditional author? I mean, trade-pubbed? I saw an author--actually, really, two of them--go in wildly different directions on books, and both were trade-pubbed. I suspect that midlisters that are Indy-pubbing are more responsive to their readers than most others. Bestsellers don't have to, and the others--all those folks crowing about their "experimental" fiction (you know, that experiment that says that you don't need quotation marks, or any mechanism to tell one paragraph from another, and that dialogue paragraphs should be indented, while narrative should be flush-left...) don't seem to give two hoots, or at least, claim that they are indifferent to, reader feedback.
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This crowd was every book must have nudity. Now I don't mind nudity in a mystery if there is some purpose to the nudity but just to get a cup of coffee and then get dressed nope.
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This reminds me of Laurell K. Hamilton. Started out with a perfectly good urban fiction detective/mystery series, and descended like a homesick rock into what can be politely called, er, "romantica?" (Maybe?). I finally gave up on her, quite a few years/books back, but I was pretty disappointed that the series just did a 180 like that. Or maybe even a 270.
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Also he repeated too much from his previous books, not important stuff just trivia.
And lastly too graphic and incorrect on one scene.
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Ah, yes, recycled content. A real favorite.
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Sorry but you really don't want your readers throwing up mid-book.
Gory murder scene ok. Guy cleaning out his undies (ewww).
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OK--that's a gorge-riser, right there. What author is this? If you wish to say?
Returning this thread to its original topic,
Hitch