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[shadowkat]

1. Eww...really who wants to see a man put a digital tracking device up a woman's vagina in an action film?

2. There's nothing like a slew of bad reviews to make one curious about a movie or television series...I mean can it really be THAT bad? And if they network is cancelling it after 8 episodes yet still airing all 8 and even premiered it in IMAX..

3. Maybe it's just me, but this plot synopsis makes no sense

She had no idea what passion was,
Until she saw them…

Lady Alain needs a husband, and Quintin Wyntor will do just fine.

She will offer him a mutual agreement of respect and independence–
As long as he never visits her bed to claim his marital rights.

But seeing him with a man, with Calder, changes it all.
For better–and for worse.

Passion stirred.
Desire ignited.
And yet, she still never wants to touch or be touched.

But Quinn’s heart is shattered when his lover walks away so he decides to explore his feelings for Celeste to ease his broken heart.

In one unchecked moment of passion, mutual need spins out of control and bringing Calder home now may just be impossible.

Will Celeste give in to what Quinn wants for her?
Or will she stand her ground and hope they find another way…

This book is the story of Celeste and has her happily for now.
It is also the beginning of Calder and Quinn’s story which will be continued in THE SPARE AND THE HEIR.

This book is an autochorissexual romance (on the asexual spectrum) but contains important pieces of a gay romance. Both are explicit.

Warning: this book has a cliffhanger ending for Calder and Quinn, but is very much part of their story.

So guessing it's about a threesome? What the hell is autochorissexual??

And I need to stop buying books for .99 cents or 1.99 whenever they go on sale. [Clarification - I did not buy that one. Considering the synposis was giving me a headache.]

4. Reading The Princess Diarest...Carrie Fisher's memoir about the filming of Star Wars. She spends an entire chapter discussing lip gloss and another one discussing how the makeup artist styled her hair. Weird memoir.

Comments

[shadowkat]

Yeah, that was my general assessment as well. Re-reading it, it made more sense. The person who did the synopsis...should have stated, Lady Celeste Alain, not Lady Alain in the first sentence. Because, I kept thinking, okay who in the heck is Celeste and what happened to Lady Alain? Poorly written synopsis, which doesn't bode well for the book. Also, the sentence structure threw me off -- "seeing him with a man, with Calder" okay both? It should be seeing him with Calder, a man. Or " When she sees him with a man, Calder, ..." I had to re-read it -- to get the structure. Doesn't require the second "with", while poetic is also jarring and confusing.

I don't know, the pushed to publish Twilight fanfic tends more towards 50 Shades of Grey area and is contemporary. This sounds more like some of the other fanfics. I agree that it has a fanfic vibe, because the synopsis reads like a fanfic synopsis -- emphasis on the sexual relationships, not on any other plot. As if the sex or sexual attraction is the only thing that matters in a relationship. Although erotica does that too.

It amuses me that the author feels the need to warn it ends on a cliffhanger!

They have to provide those warnings now. Because readers get really annoyed if they have to buy the next book and weren't forewarned. (You should see some of the reviews on Amazon and Good Reads regarding this.) It's a side-effect of the pushed-to-publish fanfic or original WIP internet fiction. Where the writer publishes it in serialized installments on their journal or blog...then in book form. And puts in -- a cliff-hanger ending -- as part of the serialized format.

I find it annoying and gimmicky. Because in most cases the cliff-hanger is poorly resolved in the next book, or the amount of story left after it is about maybe less than a novella worth so it feels stretched.

[ex_peasant441]

I assumed that whoever wrote the synopsis wasn't a native English speaker. That or just really sloppy.
This book is the story of Celeste and has her happily for now.
You would think anyone trying to push a book would be more careful than that. Maybe self-published?

[shadowkat]

You would think anyone trying to push a book would be more careful than that. Maybe self-published?

Possibly. But, knowing both worlds intimately? Impossible to tell.

From the cover and the marketing, and the fact that it landed on smartbitches? It's most likely traditionally published.

However, you'd think they'd be more careful with the marketing copy. I know I was -- I hired someone to edit mine. But publishers have gotten lazy -- they only spend time on their sure things, books sold on Amazon or as e-books, and not in the book stores, they spend less time on and often ask their authors to promote themselves. Writers under the "trades" spend a lot of time editing, promoting, and marketing their own books. The publishing house doesn't really do all that much...which is a why a lot of traditionally published genre writers specifically in the romance field have begun self-publishing. Why give the publisher a portion of your royalty? Or have them tell you to change your plot or write something they think sells, when you're doing 99% of the selling, promoting, editing, etc anyhow? Makes more sense to just hire someone to package it, or do it yourself as an e-book.

[shadowkat]

I assumed that whoever wrote the synopsis wasn't a native English speaker. That or just really sloppy

I'm thinking sloppy. Bad habits obtained via text-messaging, twitter, and Facebook. Where you have to abbreviate words and write in phrases. Seen it a lot online -- and in forums. It's basically people who write everything via their phones.