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Ok here's why:

B & E meet on a train one night. Apparently she's so heart broken after Jacob. E over hears that B is going to LA the next day so he introduces himself and what a coincidence he is also going to LA the following day!! So anyway they're on the same flight and just happen to sit next to each other - what a coincidence! After landing in LA they go out that day and spend the night in each others arms. I dont think they had sex though (i was skimming - sue me) Ok try to follow this cause its good! The following day she meets his autistic daughter Bree who he fathered with Jane his ex who is now a lesbian who is planning her wedding to Tanya. Yep! He wants to take his daughter to Disney world the next day and asks B to come but she already had plans to go to Disneyworld with Alice - what a coincidence! I couldn't continue after that! Alice calls B about a party that night and I just know that E was going to be there - coincidence? Ughhh. 



Apparently B sleeps with E and J around the same time and ends up pregnant with twins and she doesn't know who the daddy is. I think I dodged a bullet.

Memories Unknown
Author: BellaEdwardlover1991  PM
When a car accident lands Bella in the hospital, her new friend Edward helps her get her life back. AH Drabble fic, M for later situations. All BPOV.
Follow/FavoriteRated: Fiction M - English - Romance/Drama - Bella & Edward - Chapters: 90 - Words: 17,487 - Reviews: 1,469 - Favs: 219 - Follows: 302 - Updated: 07-27-12 - Published: 01-03-12 - Status: Complete - id: 7705931


Drabble fic.

So Bella loses her memory and Carlisle, her doctor, tell her parents to stay away. So she doesn't remember anything about her last 7 years? And she is being discharged from the hospital and going home, that she doesn't know where it is, alone. Well, so far, Edward is the only one who visits her.
He said he is there cause Carlisle told him about her. No patient confidentiality. If we assume that they haven't met before as he at least is pretending.

I started to read this one.  I don't remember anything about her parents being there or not. But I quit reading because she was not updating regularly. So I forgot I was reading it....  Sad I know....

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Ok here's why:

B & E meet on a train one night. Apparently she's so heart broken after Jacob. E over hears that B is going to LA the next day so he introduces himself and what a coincidence he is also going to LA the following day!! So anyway they're on the same flight and just happen to sit next to each other - what a coincidence! After landing in LA they go out that day and spend the night in each others arms. I dont think they had sex though (i was skimming - sue me) Ok try to follow this cause its good! The following day she meets his autistic daughter Bree who he fathered with Jane his ex who is now a lesbian who is planning her wedding to Tanya. Yep! He wants to take his daughter to Disney world the next day and asks B to come but she already had plans to go to Disneyworld with Alice - what a coincidence! I couldn't continue after that! Alice calls B about a party that night and I just know that E was going to be there - coincidence? Ughhh.



Apparently B sleeps with E and J around the same time and ends up pregnant with twins and she doesn't know who the daddy is. I think I dodged a bullet.

I read this and I liked, Well I had to flounce first but then I saw a manip for the story and decided to give it a go. Yeah some parts are pretty stupid but eh I got over  it. 

I can't stand when the author is trying to say definitely and instead type defiantly. Or when they use you're instead of your. Another pet peeve is when an author doesn't have a character use contractions in dialogue. It's just weird. Most people don't go around saying cannot or do not when they are speaking (especially younger characters).  I also can't stand when an older author (I assume the author is older) has a character use outdated slang when they are trying to write dialogue for a young character in present time. It's 2013, not 1993 or 1983. I don't want to read slang that Vanilla Ice would have said when he was young or hear that something is "the bomb".

They didn't use a lot of contractions back in the early 1900's, so unless it is a period fic, I would totally agree with you. 

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This is another fic that I should've flounced but didnt. The story started off really great. Renee gives up all rights and sends Bella home to Charlie, even though he doesn't know her name or where she's been for the last 15 years. Bella is shy, malnutrioned and we come to learn that Renee has been physically and psychologically abusing her her whole life. So far, so good.


Honestly, the story could have finished there. The rest is therapy. B & E fall in love. Yada, yada. The author then decides to add more "angst". Honestly by this stage I'm skimming whole pages and not missing out on sh!t. Homecoming, prom, Bella's secret grandpa, Tanya being a psychotic b!tch.

Anyhoo, this is one fic I seriously wish I had flounced. I hate myself for wasting precious reading hours.

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Author: Kim Ginsberg
Advertising CEO Edward Cullen has a secret, he goes to see the woman of his dreams daily. She thinks he's just there for the food. She can't imaging he could like her back. Waitress Bella Swan is hiding a secret. She's a young mom and lusts for one of her older customers. Will their age difference matter to either of them when they find out the truth? A/H HEA
Follow/FavoriteRated: Fiction M - English - Romance/Family - Edward & Bella - Chapters: 36 - Words: 98,290 - Reviews: 2,620 - Favs: 1,460 - Follows: 1,736 - Updated: 05-09-13 - Published: 09-18-12 - Status: Complete - id: 8536252

I think it would've been an alright fic if it wasn't so unbelievable.
I mean Bella lets Edward look after her daughter Katie even though she doesn't know Edward as nothing more than as someone who's been coming into the diner she works at for a year but not really talked to.
What is even worse that Charlie lets Edward take Katie after only meeting him 10 minutes before!!
Within hours of Edward looking after Katie, she is calling Edwards siblings Auntie and Uncle and all of this is all by chapter 3!!!

Whoever lashed out at me for writing Collisions, you should know that I'm just the translator... If you think the story is bad, sorry, but it's not my doing.

LOL! It wasn't me but sorry about that.  We probably shouldn't allow authors or translators to see this thread - the whole point of complaining here is not to write flaming reviews on FFnet.  Because really, we appreciate anyone who writes or translates stories.  But sometimes you just need to vent. 

And I have found some great stories to read on this thread - mostly because I like things that others don't like.  If that makes any sense.  And I'm probably not the only one.

But I am really sorry you felt attacked by someone's review.  And I'm glad you let us know it wasn't your writing. 

I don't know if this is a reply to Ellaenchanted but here goes nothing: I'm an author and a translator, so yes I feel hurt if someone writes that she can't stand any of my writing. My stories are very diverse, both the original ones and the translations, so to say that she can't stand any of them, that's quite a huge thing to say...

Well, you do have to understand that your writing will not appeal to everyone.  Now if a number of readers say the same thing, then you have a problem.  But one reader? You just can't let it bother you.  There will always be reviewers that won't like your writing style.  My husband reads books I find incredibly boring.  But he loves them.  He is not interested in most of the stuff I read.  He thinks the stories are kind of stupid.  We have some books we both like.  It doesn't necessarily mean that an author is a bad writer just because one person doesn't like it. 

Also, if you are translating, I'm thinking some rewriting would need to be done to have a story make sense.  My limited knowledge of French would lead me to believe if you translated it without some rewriting? It would be very awkward sounding in English. Especially the dialogue.  So if the reader didn't understand it was a translation, they may not understand why it was strange sounding.  But that is my opinion and probably means nothing.... 

Also, I would like to add that my stories don't sound strange in English, in case I didn't make this point clear enough...

I could talk about translating for hours... The thing you need to know about it is that, although you need to change the way the sentences are formulated from French to English, or from English to French, you need to stay true to the author's style. Because ultimately it is not your writing, it is someone else's and it needs to show in the translation. I'm sure you have already read a book that was not originally written in English, but could you tell? (Think of Madame Bovary, maybe...). I am (or was) Sebastien Robichaud (aka Sylvain Reynard) French translator on FF, and believe me, the French version of The Ice Queen and Mister McCarty does perfectly reflect the original version.