![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Once Upon a Time and Revenge
Jan. 21st, 2013 10:28 pmFinished reading crappy novel (NOT the one by Margaret Atwood - this is the 99 cent Kindle one), which turned out to be slightly less crappy than expected. But made me realize I have a craving for a certain story trope or tropes, so if you know of better works of fiction that contain these tropes - please advise. The one I finished was far more interested in the graphic sex scenes and UST between the leads and less in the actual plot and what it is like to not remember anything and be reunited with a family who thought you long dead.
* amensia/memory loss
* back from the dead - being reunited with husband or wife who you thought was long dead
* gothic mystery (more in line with Mary Stewart, less in line with Laurel K. Hamilton - ie non-supernatural gothic. The sort where the heroine or hero suspects the other of dastardly deeds.)
May try Brat Farrar...although not quite the same.
1) Once Upon a Time - plays wonderful games with memory loss and being reunited with people lost and then found. Which is one of the reasons I enjoy it. Although like the book I just finished...still wished it had better execution, so I didn't feel unsatisfied afterwards. It's a bit like craving a chocolate mousse, eating the chocolate mousse and think damn...why do I still feel empty?
( eh spoilers )
At church, a lovely women gave me a splendid idea regarding New Year's Resolutions. She's not worrying about it until March 1. March 1 is the beginning of her New Year. I'm going with March 9th - that's my birthday, up until then still on the 45th year of my life anyhow.
So, have some time to get my act together.
2. Revenge
Well, we're finally moving forward. While I'm getting tired of the shadowy Initiative storyline...I'm liking the complexity it has provided the Grayson's and the David Clark story.
( spoilers )
* amensia/memory loss
* back from the dead - being reunited with husband or wife who you thought was long dead
* gothic mystery (more in line with Mary Stewart, less in line with Laurel K. Hamilton - ie non-supernatural gothic. The sort where the heroine or hero suspects the other of dastardly deeds.)
May try Brat Farrar...although not quite the same.
1) Once Upon a Time - plays wonderful games with memory loss and being reunited with people lost and then found. Which is one of the reasons I enjoy it. Although like the book I just finished...still wished it had better execution, so I didn't feel unsatisfied afterwards. It's a bit like craving a chocolate mousse, eating the chocolate mousse and think damn...why do I still feel empty?
( eh spoilers )
At church, a lovely women gave me a splendid idea regarding New Year's Resolutions. She's not worrying about it until March 1. March 1 is the beginning of her New Year. I'm going with March 9th - that's my birthday, up until then still on the 45th year of my life anyhow.
So, have some time to get my act together.
2. Revenge
Well, we're finally moving forward. While I'm getting tired of the shadowy Initiative storyline...I'm liking the complexity it has provided the Grayson's and the David Clark story.
( spoilers )