http://dominanefret.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] dominanefret.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] lkh_lashouts 2007-12-06 07:33 am (UTC)

If you haven't read Janet Evanovich's books, you really have no place to speak on them. Comparing them in any way to LKH is absolutely completely and utterly insulting.

The Stephanie Plum books may be "fluffy chick lit" but they are witty, hysterical, very well written, captivating, action packed, with very well formed and well thought out plots. All of her characters have so much personality and are so well developed that when you read about them you can actually see them like they are real people, which is something very very few authors can do.

And while her heroin has a thread of complicated relationships weaving throughout her books, she absolutely never lets that overwhelm the greater plot. None of the Stephanie Plum books are anything like harlequin novels. They are mysteries, pure and simple. They may be funny mysteries, but they are still mysteries - where the conflict is the most central aspect of the plot. And some of the mysteries are VERY intense, even while having some of the humor present.

Janet Evanovich does have some Harlequinesque books out, which are actually re-releases of romance novels she wrote almost twenty years ago, but they are completely separate from her main series.

Please don't review or pass judgment on books you haven't read. You can end up misleading people, and you can also end up missing out on some really good reads based on pre-conceived notions.

Sorry for the long rant, and I hope I didn't come off as mean or like I was jumping all over you.

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