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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Reading books where the plot could be solved if the characters sat down for five minutes to talk to each other.
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Argh, yes, that's annoying. The worst case I've seen of this was a triology with a huge magical plot (most of Europe suffered under a multiple years long solar eclipse, and noone knew why), and at the end we learned that
I laughed out loud when Courtney Milan turned this cliche on its head in Unraveled: Heroine has a criminal past, and is now in love with a very principled magistrate of the law. Her previous criminal boss threatens to tell her lover about her criminal past unless she does a final favour for the crime organization.
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“I was sent a threatening little note today, saying that he would tell you about all the things I had done if I did not agree to meet with him.”
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She twirled her hair around her finger. “I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face. You did ask for honesty, after all. It seemed to be a matter of basic common sense. When one is threatened by a shadowy criminal figure, one goes to the magistrate that shares one’s bed rather than the shadowy criminal figure.”
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