Follow Me Friday

 

This is the day of the week where we get to know each other better by answering a question devised by our lovely hostesses Parajunkee & Alisoncanread. Sounds like GFC is eventually going away..  so you may want to follow by email or bloglovin/feedly (I love both). And now for this week's question....

Q. Have you broken up with a series? If so which one and why?

A.  Oh yea... I broke up with a series... in fact it was a terrible break up!!  I broke up with Marked by PC Cast and Kristin Cast (the House of Night series).   This series started out really good.  I thought that it was such a good plot line.  A bunch of kids chosen to be vampires, and all going to high school together.  Learning how to be priestesses.  Great stuff! AND THEN it just went down hill.  All the characters started to be so immature and the series kept going on and on... yeesh!!   I quit at book 7.

I also quit the Undead series by Mary Janice Davidson .  Boy did these books go south.  I mean the author apologized in a post at the beginning of book 9 for how bad the series was becoming promising that it would be better.  She justifies and apologizes for her choices for the plotline of this book. This made me nervous reading book 10.....it was like she was unsure of her own book... which sadly did turn out to be awful.  I quit at book 10.

What about you ... I would love to know what series you gave up on! 

Follow Me Friday (#32)

This is the day of the week where we get to know each other better by answering a question devised by our lovely hostesses Parajunkee & Alisoncanread. We also gain new followers by joining each other's sites via GFC, so please let me know if you're a new follower since I automatically follow back. And now for this week's question....

  

Q: Have you had a character that disappointed you? One that you fell in love with and then “broke up” with later on in either the series or a stand-alone book? Tell us about him or her.

YES I HAVE!!  Have any of you read the Queen Betsy Taylor vampire series by MaryJanice Davidson?  Yea?  They were great weren't they? Then BAM! The last two books stunk to high heaven.  The author even know this and apologized in the last book.   And promised that one would be better.  NO WAY!  Here is my review on that book: Undead and Undermined  .   The strong vampire queen became a self centered crappy character in just two book.. and there is still a third book in this "arch" . 


I also really loved the first art work for the book series.. not sure why they changed illustrators? I am sure though that was not the author's choice.  Here are the fabulous book covers (which turned me onto the books in the first place).  Undead and Unstable is the one I WON'T be reading.

 So... what character is on your list???

Undead and Undermined by MaryJanice Davidson

Undead and Undermined by MaryJanice Davidson

I have been reading this series for quite a while now.  Here is the goodreads description:

So this is what being dead feels like. Vampire queen Betsy Taylor has awoken in a Chicago morgue, naked as a corpse. Her last memory is reconciling with her husband, Eric Sinclair, after a time-traveling field trip, including an indirect route to hell (literally), with her sister, Laura. Now she’s Jane Doe #291, wrapped in plastic with a toe tag. Betsy can’t help but wonder, what in hell happened?

Grabbing clean scrubs, Betsy hits the pavement and heads back to her St. Paul mansion to find that her family and friends have been frantically searching for her. And not one of them can explain how she ended up dead and naked in Chicago until Betsy realizes that she and Laura didn't time-travel alone

Why do I still bother with this series. It is just going down hill. And now it has a three book thing going on in the middle of the series. So this is book two. Most of the book is spent talking about things that have nothing to do with the plot. I am tired of the sex and the shoes. I want a story! This was just a whole book leading up to the third book. I forgot what the story is even about. UGHHH!!!

The author new the book before this was bad so she even said she was sorry at the beginning of the book promising readers this book would be much better.  Well I am done.  No more reading this series. Betsy the lead character was so annoying in this book.  I ended up being totally confused when the book was over.  What were we trying to accomplish anyways?  I am looking right now through all the comments on goodreads and they are all negative.  I don't know how an author loses their mojo but this one certainly has.  Maybe it's time for her to start another series and move on from the Undead series. 



OH and by the way... I miss the old art work that was on the covers.  I hate the new illustrations.