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I'm 68% of the way through (according to the Kindle) of "Three Wishes", a contemporary romance with fantasy elements. Think Aladdin meets Billionaire Bad Boy Romance. And...I'm coming to the conclusion that me and contemporary romance novels may be unmixy things? This book is so bad...yet, I can't stop reading it for some reason. The plot makes no sense. The characters make no sense. I can't figure out when it takes place. The sentence structure is also off at times.

Example?

No one could help him do that. Except but one person.

Ugh. It should be "except one person". She does this all the time. It's not helped by the fact that I have a tendency to flip words around when distracted. Although "Except one but person" is rather funny.

Right now? ( Read more... )

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Trying to write but getting distracted by media reviews..

1. Review of Jordan Peel's US -- which is getting interesting reviews and is possibly among the most innovative horror films to come out in a long while. I got to give Peel credit, he is playing with and turning upside down and sideways the horror genre in a way that I haven't really seen since well Rod Sterling.

But I'm not sure I can watch this film. Just the trailer plays with my head and not in a good way. There's another creepy film that played with my head Skeleton Key -- which has a lot to say.

I've seen a few horror flicks that have stuck with me long past the final credits and possibly months even years later. They are:

* Haunting of Hill House (Robert Wise version or rather the PBS remake of the Robert Wise version in color) and the Netflix television adaptation of it.

* Skeleton Key

* Nightmare on Elm Street

* Roman Polanski's The Tenant

* Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

* Jaws -- although not as scary now

2. Read up on The Passage Finale and S2 -- broken down by the head-writer. It's based on a trilogy of books, which explains the tighter plotting structure and characterization. Television series adapted from other mediums, books, comic books, plays, or even film -- tend to have a tighter structure and better characterization than television shows made up on the fly.

What's interesting about this one is the heroine, ( spoilers )