[ SECRET POST #3939 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3939 ⌋

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[rosehiptea]

I am currently reading a mystery novel. I've read the rest of the books in the series, and they were all very good mysteries, but now in this one the author has introduced a supernatural element which seems essentially unrelated to the plot. And it's just throwing me out of the book completely. So I agree with you - I like to read supernatural stuff but when I know what I'm getting into.

(Not giving the name of the book because it's a bit spoilery.)

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like, if I was reading that book, I would expect it was a Scooby-Doo situation or something.

[rosehiptea]

That's what I suspected at first, but the book made it clear that people were doing impossible things. And it's third-person omniscient narration so not an unreliable narrator. If the author manages to pull a Scooby-Doo out of what they've set up I'm going to be deeply impressed, but I don't think it's going to happen.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's exactly what I don't like. I'm down with mysteries that have a supernatural element if they stated that upfront, but I dislike sudden genre shifts. ESPECIALLY if not even related to the plot!

[ninety6tears]

It's not Tana French, is it? She does this very subtly usually, but one of her books took it a little beyond believability for me.

It's weird, because I don't like genre confinements usually, or I like it when authors play with those expectations, but fantasy stuff is a lot harder to swallow if you had no idea it was coming.

[rosehiptea]

It is Tana French. So I imagine it's the same book you're talking about.