[ SECRET POST #2760 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2760 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Penny Dreadfuls]


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[True Blood, Game of Thrones]


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[Tamora Pierce]


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[Free!]


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[Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift]


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[Masterchef]


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[Game of Thrones]


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Comments

[othellia]

Been staying away from Mark Reads so I don't know the whole history of that, but I do feel you on her more recent books being a let down.

I really liked Terrier, and then one day I saw Bloodhound on the library bookshelf and was like "omg? why haven't i read this yet?" so I immediately checked it out.

As I got about halfway through the book, I realized that I had read it before. It'd just been so boring and the plot so half-assed that'd I'D COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN EVER READING IT.

Note to future self: if you ever spend so much time developing a random one-off transgender character and their correct pronouns and the way other characters perceive them to the point where the readers have no idea who the hell your main antagonist is, you need to re-evaluate your book.

SPOILERS FOR MASTIFF

[(Anonymous)]

I HATE what she did to Tunstall in Mastiff (he suddenly became a villain because he loved Sabine too much and wanted to impress her by kidnapping a little boy? WHAT) and that she had to throw in some random guy Beka was supposed to have married (Holborn), who had never been mentioned in any previous book, and who actually seemed really abusive. (Pierce said she rewrote this book after helping with the 9/11 recovery project, IIRC.)

The series just went *really* downhill after the first one, and she absolutely wasted Beka's potential with Rosto to give her some shoehorned romance with Farmer Cape.

Eh. I always liked her Emelan books better (I love Trisana Chandler to bits and pieces).

Re: SPOILERS FOR MASTIFF

[othellia]

Ooh, boy. I didn't end up reading Mastiff, but I got spoiler-bombed for that bit and it killed any desire I'd had to.

And once again, the Beka/Rosto thing, I think it's another example of her "ideas" getting in the way of the actual plot. I get the feeling she wanted to do a thing that showed girls it's okay to have multiple crushes/loves/what have you, and who you think you're going to end up and spend all your remaining days with isn't necessarily the first guy you meet. Or the second.

And that's a REALLY GOOD MESSAGE. I personally love that message. But it was executed terribly.

Re: SPOILERS FOR MASTIFF

[analise]

I was really disappointed about Tunstall too. It just felt really out of left field.

I don't mind that Beka didn't end up with Rosto, really (though there should always be more Rosto) and I kind of liked the guy she did end up with (even if I spent half the book expecting him to turn out to be the traitor) but you're right that it felt really shoe-horned.

Sad, because I otherwise liked the books and the end of Mastiff was just kind of a downer.