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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
I have nothing against thrillers I like 'em in fact, and I read a lot of them.
But with Kindle First, the author's names change, the book covers change, and maybe the protagonist will change from a 14-year-old girl to an older divorced woman, or widowed woman (age varies on that), but the synopses all pretty much sound like the standard 3 or 4 boilerplate models.
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That is the nature of genres. Say, you have a crime solving mystery. A crime is being committed, a likely suspect is investigated until proven guilty, a plot twist and the real culprit shows up and almost ruins it, gets caught in the end. There is is only so many different crimes you can write about. As reader you already know that at some point something happens that will change everything and blow the case wide open.
The only difference between books is how well you are entertained while all this happens. If it is too obvious it is just as bad as if it falls out of the sky for no apparent reason (other than to kill the book of due to a certain length).