Anyone else read a book, LOVED IT, read another book by the same author and...?

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with their high hopes got crushed? :[

Damn Katie MacAlister. I read Noble Destiny and laughed and loved the romance but then the Corset Diaries sort of...

sucked.
Especially the end.
I don't think there was much of a plot involved. No big climatic ending...or...any climaxes. Except those experienced of the protagonists, or some other grammatically incorrect sentence.

Anyway I'm just totally depressed about Katie MacAlister. I can't find ANY other books by her [like, at the library or bookstores] so I am doomed to decomposition with the yellowness of the Corset Diaries.

I just thought I should let you know about my imminent death.
 
go to www.amazon.com...there are tons of books by Katie...just go to books and plug in her name.....
 
My sympathies! Would you like roses sent to your funeral?:) The worst part is that when you die and go to Hell(well I probably will!) you'll be forced to read the snore fest of James Joyce and Theodore Dreiser!! So repent while you have the chance!!:)
Seriously, that happened to me with a Joseph Conrad book. I like most of his stuff but I could not get into Nostromo. I got maybe 40-50 pages into it and I finally just gave the book away.
 
I have had that happen to me before as well. It is weird, how you can fall in love with one book by an author...then read some of their other works, and have it be so opposite, like they aren't even written by the same person! I read The First Princess of Whales by Karen Harper...loved it, was the genre I like, historical fiction. But then when I started to look for more of her books, nothing else compared that she wrote...and had to move on. O-well!
 
I think this happens because first time authors usually have as much time that they need to work on their manuscript before sending it off. They are sometimes in the middle of the second when they get signed and then they are overwhelmed by the necessity of promotions. By that time they are also working under deadline to complete the next manuscript for publication. Now you are working under a time clock to produce and it's an adjustment.

--- As with any writer they usually start out very strong. They have enthusiasm, momentum, and a plethora of ideas. Sometimes by the second and third manuscript they begin to wane a bit. It becomes a little more difficult to find more interesting words, you become painfully aware of your other works in an attempt to keep this one fresh and new. You may be venturing in a new genre or even a new setting. Sometimes it take an author awhile to get to know a new set of characters (well) especially if they are not part of a series.

--- Lots of authors have hits and misses the thing is a hit for you may be a miss for me and visa versa so an author may disinterest one audience with their writing but pick up a completely different audience.

--- I was a long time fan of King in college followed him through all of his experimental phases until 'Desparation'. Uggggh. I was also following Patricia Cromwell and her character Kaye Scarpetta faithfully until she hit me with a cop drama about some detective chick in the south... Bleck. I stuck with Anne Rice, even through the Beauty Series, and that pedofile story Belinda but she lost me at Maurius's story Blood and Gold or some such thing. It was really just a long dry rehash of all the other vampires from her series from yet another perspective. Can we say TMI?
--- So that just shows you even the greats can lose fans and pick them up again and find a bunch of new ones all in the course of one book.
 
Anne rice I loved the first half of the Vampire Chronicles but I think the last half, from The Vampire Armand on sucked.
 
Sadly, it has happened to me as well. :))

I read Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" and loved, loved, LOVED it, so I thought of reading his other books. I picked "Stardust" next, and I just could NOT bring myself to get past the 3rd chapter.
 
Have you tried her Aisling Grey guardian series? They are a funny paranormal series about a woman who winds up a demon lord, married to a dragon, fought over by more dragons and is supposed to be a guardian for a portal to Hell.

And yes, I've read really good books by an author only to have the next one be a dud. Rogue Hunter by Lynsay Sands comes to mind. Anne Rice is another one, who writes a fab book, then an ok one, to be followed by a lousy one.
 
I've done that with Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Ain't she sweet was the first book by her that I read and it was great...then I read 4 of her other books and they are basically the same story...the characters just have different names and the setting is in a different location.
 
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