It's official: I suck at hiatus
Aug. 30th, 2008 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrBut this book, trend really, aggravates me.
I'm sorry, but am I the only one completely and utterly sick of every other ebook containing massive kink? This book I was attempting to slog through had a not uninteresting premise -- dom interested in snarly professor who is unknowingly a sub. There's potential there, except as per usual with ebooks we breeze through the courtship or whatever as quickly as possible (though, credit where credit is due, it took longer that the five pages that is more common). Disappointing in a book nearly four hundred pages long, but whatever.
Seriously, though. When the only thing carrying the stories is the BDSM nature of the relationship, it gets boring fast. Adding heavy kink to your story, even making it the focus, does not get your story +100 interesting. It doesn't even get you +1. The professor is annoying. Every ten pages he's throwing another temper tantrum, and there's been so little evidence given of his past trauma that I don't really buy it. I don't want it harped on, but I would like it to matter. Some sort of functioning plot would suffice. My plots are never very involving, but they're enough to carry the story. That's all I want. But, of course, the popular thing is sex sex sex pause for Meaning Dialogue, sex sex sex.
So, it was okay the first hundred pages or so. If it had been a hundred page story, and written accordingly, I would have called it a good story. I do enjoy kink now and again (especially pretties getting tied up, and spanking, please dear god don't ever let my parents read this post. they don't need to know that much about what I read, oh the dangers of a close family). But 180 pages in I could no longer stand the boredom. Way beyond caring.
I apologize to those whom I owe stories - I should have finished Midnight and Robin Hood ages ago. Will attempt them very shortly, if the idea niggling at me does not bite (it's a fairytale, though, so it probably will bite).
The book, btw, is Bent by Sean Michael. Always a crap shoot. Some of her stories I like. Others I hate. Bent would have been good at about 100 pages. At 391, I'm sorry, it became boring as hell. Maybe it's just me, though. I am always willing to admit that.
I'm sorry, but am I the only one completely and utterly sick of every other ebook containing massive kink? This book I was attempting to slog through had a not uninteresting premise -- dom interested in snarly professor who is unknowingly a sub. There's potential there, except as per usual with ebooks we breeze through the courtship or whatever as quickly as possible (though, credit where credit is due, it took longer that the five pages that is more common). Disappointing in a book nearly four hundred pages long, but whatever.
Seriously, though. When the only thing carrying the stories is the BDSM nature of the relationship, it gets boring fast. Adding heavy kink to your story, even making it the focus, does not get your story +100 interesting. It doesn't even get you +1. The professor is annoying. Every ten pages he's throwing another temper tantrum, and there's been so little evidence given of his past trauma that I don't really buy it. I don't want it harped on, but I would like it to matter. Some sort of functioning plot would suffice. My plots are never very involving, but they're enough to carry the story. That's all I want. But, of course, the popular thing is sex sex sex pause for Meaning Dialogue, sex sex sex.
So, it was okay the first hundred pages or so. If it had been a hundred page story, and written accordingly, I would have called it a good story. I do enjoy kink now and again (especially pretties getting tied up, and spanking, please dear god don't ever let my parents read this post. they don't need to know that much about what I read, oh the dangers of a close family). But 180 pages in I could no longer stand the boredom. Way beyond caring.
I apologize to those whom I owe stories - I should have finished Midnight and Robin Hood ages ago. Will attempt them very shortly, if the idea niggling at me does not bite (it's a fairytale, though, so it probably will bite).
The book, btw, is Bent by Sean Michael. Always a crap shoot. Some of her stories I like. Others I hate. Bent would have been good at about 100 pages. At 391, I'm sorry, it became boring as hell. Maybe it's just me, though. I am always willing to admit that.
