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Chargement... Double Trouble (édition 2019)par RJ Blain
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Frustrating Such an interesting world; such terrible writing. It’s really not bad. The problem is it all tends to be one note. The banter flies so fast it can be a struggle to figure out who is speaking at times. But it’s almost passionless. The emotions come in small bursts that are too easily deflected with wittiness. Then there is the over-explaining of future plans, most of which never come to fruition. Grandiose ADD nonsense babble that eats pages without advancing any plot or character development. It gets detailed about things that don’t matter at all and repetitive to an annoying level. Worst of all, nothing happened. The whole plot involved one paragraph of action. A lot of threats (and one family quasi-brawl that was effectively a pillow fight) but the antagonists only appear in one scene and were summarily dealt with. This series continues to deteriorate. Which is sad. The author has written much better. This was vaguely amusing, but I really can’t recommend it. Frustrating Such an interesting world; such terrible writing. It’s really not bad. The problem is it all tends to be one note. The banter flies so fast it can be a struggle to figure out who is speaking at times. But it’s almost passionless. The emotions come in small bursts that are too easily deflected with wittiness. Then there is the over-explaining of future plans, most of which never come to fruition. Grandiose ADD nonsense babble that eats pages without advancing any plot or character development. It gets detailed about things that don’t matter at all and repetitive to an annoying level. Worst of all, nothing happened. The whole plot involved one paragraph of action. A lot of threats (and one family quasi-brawl that was effectively a pillow fight) but the antagonists only appear in one scene and were summarily dealt with. This series continues to deteriorate. Which is sad. The author has written much better. This was vaguely amusing, but I really can’t recommend it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Layla, a recovering drug addict, reformed kleptomaniac, and general troublemaker, believes she has a one-way ticket straight to hell to go with her general rap sheet. Instead of jail time, she's ordered to perform ninety days of community service. Her job is simple: she must keep two unicorns out of trouble. It doesn't take her long to learn the truth: she's been assigned to a dose of double trouble, and wherever the unicorns go, chaos and mayhem follow in their wake. One wants to take over the world. The other wants in her pants. Unless she pulls out all the stops, Layla won't escape her community service time single or sane. Warning: this novel contains magic, mayhem, unicorns, romance, and bodies. Proceed with Caution. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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In spite of that, the writing unfortunately just wasn't strong enough to hold my attention. It's a short novel, yet it drags terribly. The wordcount seems to mostly be taken up with establishing expositional facts and then repeating them over and over again, as though the author thinks the reader is going to somehow forget the characters' backstories and primary character traits. Central plot points get the same treatment. This issue messes up the pacing badly, such that the crime plot is resolved mostly offscreen and the romance is entirely undeveloped.
Another thing I disliked, though I realize this is common to a lot of supernatural romance, is the prevalence of strange and gratuitous essentialisms. A character can't just be a protective male unicorn, he's protective because he's a male unicorn and male unicorns are protective. The "Species A is this way, Species B is this way" exposition both really bogs down the book and is essential to the plot: