Is this true?

[chococomilk.livejournal.com]

For those who have bravely read "Bullet" - is it true that JC and Asher have finally been allowed to sleep with each other, and that Micah and Nathaniel have suddenly become lovers out of the blue? I came across these rather astonishing claims on the Amazon forums. It seems bizarre that LKH has done a complete 180 on Anita's refusal to allow "her" men to sleep with other people and got characters getting together all of a sudden who never even had interest in each other previously. In one of the earlier books, maybe Harlequin, it was suggested that Asher had interest in Nathaniel, but Micah? I know he does whatever Anita wants, but what?

Comments

[atypia.livejournal.com]

As usual with LKH, Bullet annoyed me the most with the goddamn info-dumping. There is no reason to tell us all about how everyone looks AGAIN, let alone all about Narcissus and the psycho weres from the first half of the series. We know this stuff, and if we don't we can find out. We don't need to have pages upon pages of "previously, in Anita Blake books....." crap. It's completely unnatural as well, "Oh, let's all just sit around and talk about horrible things from the past that we all know happened."

[magdalen77.livejournal.com]

You mean people in real life don't endlessly re-hash everything that has happened to them? Quelle surprise!!

[fadeinthewash.livejournal.com]

LKH is a particularly bad case, but she's far from the only serial author to include "Previously on..." statements scattered throughout the books. Drives me crazy, as I figure if you're going to read a book from the series, you should make the 5 seconds of effort to figure out which one comes first, or just suck it up that you don't know who people are or what happened.

Alternately, I guess it's good if you've been following the series in real-time so that it's been at least a year since you may have read the previous installation, but still...

And if it's a publisher-preferred thing, they could just put a little summary page in the front of the book for reference! Gyar.

/sorry, pet peeve

[ardeth30.livejournal.com]

Tad Williams did a 'Previously' type thing for his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy and his Otherland quartet, but then his books in hardback are thick enough they could be used to seriously hurt someone.

From what I remember Jean Auel is as bad as LKH for the 'Previously in...' statements too; Shelters of Stone was really irritating because she essentially copy & pasted the summaries of the previous books in the series over and over again. Instead of, y'know, moving the plot much.