Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Katie MacAlister

She's one of the few authors who's work I read almost all of. I say almost because I haven't read her latest Aisling Gray and I don't know if I will. I've read the first of the new silver dragons and recently picked up the second, which I'm only a few chapters into, because I liked Gabriel and I want to like this spin off. The thing is that so far it's reading pretty much like Aisling Gray. At least in the things that annoyed me about it. You think things are improving and then something else goes down wrong and the leads end up apart or the heroine ends up in deeper than before at the end of the book. Instead of feeling satisfied at the end of each book I feel like I've been left hanging and that I'm being strung along. I don't like that feeling and if it goes on too long I get turned off of a series. That's why I lost interest in Aisling.

Now you're probably thinking that this probably applies to most series, but it actually doesn't happen very often. It's the cliffhanger feel that the endings have to them that turns me off. It makes me feel like the characters are right were they were when I started the book. It's very unsatisfying. Maybe it's just that her writing style doesn't lend itself well to this style? I lover Dark Ones and her non-serials, but these dragon ones are giving me a hard time.

Am I a sucker for even trying to get into the silver dragons series?

1 comment:

Mariana said...

I used to be a huge Katie MacAlister fan, then I just got bored. Aisling never learned anything and kept making the same mistakes... just outgrew that stuff I guess. Maybe I'll be interested again

I found you through SBTB, jic.