I’m not going to name any names, but I just read the most boring and lackluster romance story I have ever had the displeasure of coming across. Not because it was badly written or anything, but because it had so much potential. There was all this build up, then nothing happened. Then there was the build up again, then nothing. Then again and again. Every single point when the story could have some kind of action, nothing would happen.
It was so frustrating and now I feel like I’ve irrevocably lost a few chunks of my life that I’m never going to get back. It was kind of like the Rune Lords books.
Every time I think of that book, I will instantly be drowned in a wave of boredom. Just like whenever I think of that Rune Lord book, all I can think about is forced castration. And I shudder and that’s all I’ll be able to think about for hours. It’s horrible.
Sometimes there are those epically great books that change your life with their words. Just reading that book makes you feel like being a better person. And those are great books.
Other times, though, there are those books that are so horrendously, scarringly terrible that no matter what you do, you’ll never be able to wash them away. And that was the Rune Lord series for me. Just that starkly horrible imagery burned itself into my brain and there was no way for me to go forward with the rest of the books. I just flung the one I was reading away from me, said “Goodbye” to the series, and never went back.
The most disappointing thing though was that the series had a very interesting premise. Until it was warped and twisted until there was no way I could possibly read the rest. The horror far outweighed the good story and I didn’t even want to try to read any more and I never have.
And the book I read tonight is sort of like that. A dozen minor story lines were introduced, and none of them were resolved satisfactorily. I was left at the end feeling as though I had read half a story. But I have no interest in another half.
I don’t think I will ever be writing a letter to the author asking for a continuation of the characters’ lives. So there.
