Just out of curiosity...do you get annoyed with authors when they...?

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This question is just curiosity. Have you ever read a book, guessed the killer and then was disappointed by the rest of the book and how it all was plotted out because it was too easy? If you do, what book/author was it.

I was reluctant to read Nora Roberts (since she pumps out like 3/4 books a year--and now I know why--they're the same book with different characters!). But on a recommendation from a friend I read two (Montana Sky & Carolina Moon) and can't read any more of her work. They're just way too predictable: similar plots, similar hero's/heroine's, similar killers.

Do you have any author's you can't read because of that same problem?

Also, what "plot twist" do you hate the most?
Examples:
The aliens did it
The dead relative
The "split personality"

If you have one I didn't mention, I'd love to hear it.
 
i got one...but i love them anyways
The Private Series by: Kate Brian
The last two books she wrote are the same old thing but with different settings. It's kind of annoying but i still love the books anyways and want to read them still. I can't wait for the next one.
:D
 
Let me start with plot twist first. Aliens, dead relatives, and split personalities along with the infamous "twin" sister are awful. I just cringe when those pop up.

The Alex Cross series and books by Sandra Brown, I have crossed off my list of reads or rereads!
 
The Series of Unfortunate Events?
By...uh... Lemony Snicket or something like that?

I stopped after the fourth book- the same thing kept happening. Count Olaf would show up wherever the kids were, disguised, and no one would believe the kids when they said it was Count Olaf. Eventually, something would happen that revealed Count Olaf, and the adults would be all "we're so sorry we didn't listen to you, children", and then the same thing happens in the very next book.
 
When I first started reading mystery novels I had the hardest time figuring out the "who-done-its" but now I can guess, nine times out of ten, who the killer is. I think it comes from all the Richie Tankersley Cusick and Kay Hooper books I've read.

I agree with you Nora Roberts takes the same plot and gives the characters new names.

I hate when the killer believes they were the wronged party, hence the reason they decided to go on a killing spree, only to find out that they didn't know the entire story and it was them that was wrong all along. Then they feel remorseful, but not enough to let their hostages go.
 
Mary Higgins Clark. I was told to read her books because the person you think is the killer never turns out to be. With this in mind, I read "Loves Music, Loves to Dance," and guessed it halfway through. Oh, and in "The Cradle Will Fall," she TELLS you the killer from the beginning. I found nothing about that book suspenseful...just boring.

Sorry, Mary!

Plot twist I hate? The dead relative one...if you're referring to the dead relative that wasn't actually dead :P
 
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things was beautiful, but it was too easy to guess.. err.. what was happening to the narrator girl.

Ugh, the whole Twilight series.. absolutely see through plot.
 
I know what you mean about Nora Roberts. I have never read any of her books, but caught a movie based on one of her books last week, liked it....then watched another from on demand. It was almost the same! Not to mention I could predict who was the bad guy, because there was only one character left.
I have to say though, it isn't limited to books with killers. When I read through Twilight Saga, I knew how each book would go once I got into it. But I would keep reading just to see...then close the book and think...well, I already knew that!
I don't read too many mysteries anymore though....(not that twilight falls in that catagory), so I can't give you any authors...
 
I know what you mean about Nora Roberts. I have never read any of her books, but caught a movie based on one of her books last week, liked it....then watched another from on demand. It was almost the same! Not to mention I could predict who was the bad guy, because there was only one character left.
I have to say though, it isn't limited to books with killers. When I read through Twilight Saga, I knew how each book would go once I got into it. But I would keep reading just to see...then close the book and think...well, I already knew that!
I don't read too many mysteries anymore though....(not that twilight falls in that catagory), so I can't give you any authors...
 
even though i love them, the alex cross books are very predictable.

and for another plot twist:

one of the detectives working on the case did it.
 
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