You know, I like good m/f/m menage erotica as much as the next girl, but could you please give me some emotional basis for it first? I mean, really. When I go to an erotic romance site to buy a book, I expect some romance.
If you want to shag from page 58 [in my ebook reader, which is roughly page 24 in print], please give me a reason other than some esoteric werewolf rule thing, which must have been explained elsewhere, but the book is not marked as part of a series that Must Be Read In Order. I usually don’t even read werewolf/paranormal anything. I just thought the blurb was funny.
Now I’m feeling a bit bitter about spending what little leisure time I have right now trying to plow through a dozen names I think I should know from previous books, trying to figure out who’s what to whom, trying to figure out this world’s rules, and having absolutely no reason to enjoy a girl sandwich, and trying to get past “slow-eyed.” (Pssst: It’s sloe-eyed, as in sloe gin fizz.)
And I’m peeved I spent money for it.
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This is part of why I’m endlessly leery of series or even appearing-vaguely-series-like books, which can often include entire genres. And I’m pro-genre fiction — but sometimes I don’t think genre fiction is pro-me.
This isn’t limited to genre fiction, unless you count LDS fiction as genre. I’m still mad about this:
When we went to Nauvoo for my cousin’s wedding (August), I went to the bookstore there and got a book by Anita Stansfield. It was not marked in any way as being a sequel to something else. Not on the cover, not on the title page, nowhere.
I got into the first page and realized it was a sequel, so I looked at the “other books by” page and saw there was one ahead of it. I went to Deseret Book’s website and ordered that book. Guess what? THAT book’s a sequel, too.
I cannot tell you how mad I am and I LIKE series. No, I LOVE AND ADORE them. When did publishers STOP putting this information on the cover? A simple “1” on the spine and/or the front cover would suffice.
And let me tell you something: Those two Anita Stansfield books were a helluva lot more expensive than one little ebook, so I’m exponentially more peeved about that.
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That’s crappy design. But, frankly, Covenant isn’t exactly renowned for their design.
I guess they don’t have to be, do they? ::sigh::