I know you get a million "did you see this thing someone wrote about twilight?" links, and here's another, but really hilarious review of the book: http://avphibes.livejournal.com/370683.html
But here's the thing... I was kind of looking forward to this book being page-turning popcorn, but at about the halfway mark I started feeling this strange, undefined feeling of frustration that went beyond the fact that there seemed to be no plot. I couldn't put my finger on it... and then, it hit me: The book was written in the style of erotica and I was waiting for the sex. So that part of my brain that likes to spank it to bad literotica.com stores... or, you know, that WOULD if I were into that sort of thing *cough*... was impatient to get the show on the road. Subconsciously, my mind was saying "GET TO THE FUCKING ALREADY!" and once my conscious mind figured that out, I was like "This book was written by a Mormon. There will be no fucking." And then, admittedly, I was a little annoyed. I almost wanted to write the sex scenes myself. They would probably go a little something like this:
I will leave you to click the link and read her descriptive supposition of what the unwritten sex scenes would have been like, but the last line is truly golden.
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Date: 2008-12-05 04:08 am (UTC)I will leave you to click the link and read her descriptive supposition of what the unwritten sex scenes would have been like, but the last line is truly golden.