I was wondering about the Colorado Mountain series...   I have that one on my TBR list too.   

And yes...  him sneaking into her bed for that long was a little weird, but I've read crazier things.   I was just glad to finally find out that she had met him before.  At first I thought he was a totally random stranger.   

See, I wasn't that keen on Knight, it might have been because I read it after Xfire and he just didn't match up to Mr Cross (on top of being a modern day Iceberg Slim) or it might have been because the heroine (can't remember what the heck her name was!) came across as slightly 'special needs' but not my favourite of that elk. 

See, I wasn't that keen on Knight, it might have been because I read it after Xfire and he just didn't match up to Mr Cross (on top of being a modern day Iceberg Slim) or it might have been because the heroine (can't remember what the heck her name was!) came across as slightly 'special needs' but not my favourite of that elk. 

Hmmmm? I don't know. I love TB, I do; and I love Aha Shakes a hella lot, but, I'm beginning to wonder if this is going to be a case of her having a compulsion to print every thing she's ever written? And it also reminds me of a comment made during the 'to print or not to print' YG/TB fall out.....how much of it is about the writing and how much is it about the attention/controversy that comes from it, though it wasn't put quite so...diplomatically. 


On another note, to temper my rant of yesterday.

There are times when I ask myself, repeatedly, why the f*ck I continue to put myself through the torture that this fandom can be? Mediocre writing,(at best), abandoned fics, slow to crawling updates, crazies (!)  perpetual repetition (as if the authors all share one brain) and then out of nowhere, when you least expect it, you accidentally stumble, and I mean fall flat on you face, into sometime really great. And then, for just the time it takes to read a single story, it all suddenly makes sense....

So glad I started flouncing! Although now it makes it much harder to identify stories that I've read through and thought about a couple months later after I've flounced; I don't keep track of the flounced stories, so I'll remember a random detail and drive myself crazy trying to locate the story EVEN IF IT'S TERRIBLE!



I loooved Aha Shake and probably would have enjoyed the story if I found it under original fiction, but I've already read it so there's no excitement  I think that TB really grew as a writer, because some of the earlier stories she wrote and pulled are questionable. There's a book I read recently that kind of reminds me of Edward in Aha Shake, even though I much prefer Edward's character.

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So many people seem to like it, but I thought it was kind of corny. A review on a fanfic I read awhile back finally pinpointed why certain stories bother me, it's because they're written by women who are writing what they think goes through a mans head. The character in Tangled is written really over the top and almost felt like I was reading a caricature of the stereotypical redeemed douchebag. Almost all of the books I read are written by women though, but some just seem like they try too hard when a male is narrating.

also can she just pull Pickup Truck and rework that? I know she'll never finish it at this point, but that was something I actually read as a WIP

Not just with respect to a stereotypical redeemed douchebag, but I feel that many writers simply use wish fufillment.  Of course I'm sure that men would do the same to women. *shrug*  But yes, it's increasingly annoying for me as a reader.

And then, for just the time it takes to read a single story, it all suddenly makes sense....

Pressed for Time

Is it possible to fall in love in five minutes? "He showed me what he was reading and, accidentally, I think he may have shown me his soul" BxE Written with Twanza AH
Rated: Fiction M - English - Romance/Humor - Edward, Bella - Chapters: 17 - Words: 108,330 - Reviews: 687 - Favs: 710 - Follows: 467 - Updated: Apr 16, 2011 - Published: Apr 16, 2010 - Status: Complete - id: 5900052

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Either this is a solid 3.5*-4* or my brain has gone totally to mush from the sheer amount of sh!t fics I've been reading recently....someone else read and confirm which it is.

Have you read anything that you could relate to or see yourself agreeing with the internal monologue? Or all we all just delusional and writing flowery prose for male characters?

....finally completed

Mason Manor
Masen Manor, home to a prestigious boarding school, Masen Academy. An immortal hiding from the world has his faith tested by a hundred-year-old fortune and a broken, silent girl. AU…E/B…Slightly OOC…Rated M

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