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Drama Circuits Still Overloaded

10 August 2008, 11:34 am. 6 Comments. Filed under Reading.

My real-​​life drama tol­er­ance cir­cuits were totally burned out with mar­riage v.3. I’m cool with that. I was able to han­dle much more of it in fic­tion, though I’m not big on whiney characters.

I guess the Stephanie Meyer back­lash is still with me, though, because after fin­ish­ing the fifth of Laura Anne Gilman’s Retriever nov­els, Falling Free, I tried read­ing Anne Bishop’s Tan­gled Webs.

I just started read­ing Bishop ear­lier this year, and truly enjoyed the ear­lier Realms of the Blood books. I did notice that every­body in the books is more than slightly high-​​strung, and that (as is so often the case), good com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills would have largely removed most the plot premises.

I mean, yeah, evil peo­ple plot, what are you going to do about it? Stick together and talk to the peo­ple you care about, dammit! Never believe you’ve been betrayed with­out doing some fact-​​checking, at the very least!

But I just got a few chap­ters into Tan­gled Webs, and there they go again. I think lithium needs to be added into the water table of this universe.

I’m dis­ap­pointed, because I do enjoy many things about Bishop’s writ­ing. Maybe I’ll give that one another try some­day in the future. For now, it goes back to the library.

Grey­walker by Kat Richard­son is next on the stack!

 

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