Plugging away

Chapter five, done. Chapter six, scene one done.  Kara’s a right bitch, too. *grins* But then, I knew that back in Lynette and Lachlan’s story. But she has more play, visibility, ummm… importance, in Allison and Robert’s story.

So, as a writer, one must continually read, right? I’d been reading loads of mysteries, but figured I should start reading some romances again as well, since I’m currently writing romance. And I do enjoy tossing some erotic romances into the mix, especially the paranormal ones. *grins* So I grabbed a book after reading the blurb – i.e. it was described on an email list I receive daily, inexpensive books for Kindle. Either way, the blurb made it sound interesting, like something right up my alley: paranormal, romance, magic, various shifter’s, and erotica.

Welp, I found it to be a god-awful read, to put it mildly. It was book two in a trilogy, but not written as a stand alone. Which the writer never mentioned. If the reader wanted to follow the continuing storyline, they needed to begin with the first book to see the setup, cause no recap offered in book two. Nope, no way, no how. The spelling errors made me grind my teeth, especially the continual confusing “your” with “you’re” because it was used often. A lot. *sighs* Jumping from one POV to another, quite often and with no transitional setup, made it a highly confusing read – to put it mildly. Sentences not related to those set before them (found in many paragraphs) gave the appearance of random thoughts just occurring to the writer – not the narrator, the writer. Not sticking to a tense, many sentences written with past and present tense wordage. Character descriptions so unbelievable, no way this reader could stay within the world created. C’mon, a six foot seven inch, six hundred pound man?!? Sorry, all that brought to mind was tall and rotund, not sexy. A wereleopard in human form with four breasts, being ravished by a seventy-six year old man? M’kay, total lack of any type of research tossed me wayyyyy out of the story. I couldn’t force myself to finish it. But, I did force myself to read to the halfway point before reviewing it.

Apparently, a fan of the writer didn’t like my review. So several comments followed – her name-calling and trying to belittle me, me responding as an adult that actually understands and knows how to correctly use the words she tossed around, with my final comment directly to her stating I would no longer respond to her childish bullying attempts and her reply a typical, “Na-na-na, I win” type thing. *sighs* My daughter so wanted to reply and tear her a new one! *laughs*

So, that kept me a wee bit busy – but, it didn’t really slow my own progress down because as I mentioned above, chapter five is completed and a good start to chapter six, as well. So, y’all are updated, which means ’tis time for me to get my booty in gear! So, I am so outtie….