LOL, I wish you'd be more open and honest with your opinions ;) I vaguely remember attempting to read a Carly Phillips novel that everyone was raving about and it didn't go well. I don't think I made it past page 20.
Yeah, me and my tactful way of hinting towards having some doubts regarding the brilliance of the writing...
It was shitty. Really really shitty. I am totally mystified as to who might enjoy this kind of "book"...
why does it have to do with being suspicious of m/f? m/m are better? :)
I wonder who do you fall into these terrible books! I somehow feel so lucky that I have less DNF but they ARE increasing as my reading lists grows.. you might also be less patient than I am :)
Well, my disappointment over m/f romance brought me to m/m...and now I am also a bit dissatisfied with that genre as well...
I download huge quantities of free books - they offer many first books in series' to bait readers...
don't know what happens to my writing lately... I might have been too distracted when writing my comment hehe
I think that M/M is just, well, different? I don't consider it better/worst then M/M. The IS a certain appeal to two males and no hysterical woman but I won't read this kind of heroine anyhow.. so I don't know..
For me it's checking out books I got recommendation of, I usually don't "venture" to try free books just because they're free I get so many recommendations through the blogs I know I won't have the time for more. I guess another option is to work with NetGally or something like that so you can get books you actually want for free in exchange for your review.
I already tried Netgally, but they didn't want me :-(
Sometimes I do find some hidden gems, but admittedly rather rarely..
M/M is different - but one of the joys of it is, that there are no female characters I can't identify with.
Although I started hating the hateful female characters in m/m...
I guess it's also interesting when you don't have anyone you could REALLY identify with (since they are both guys) but you could really relate in a different way since we don't really think like guys do. I think what was funny for me the first time I read M/M was that guys don't talk about it :) they don't! Girls wants to talk about everything and anything. I guess I'm like that too, though on certain things I AM like a guy I can really be incapable of speaking of my emotions.
I also think since I'm not a girly girl (well, lets put the makeup and nail polish aside for now ;)) I react better to M/M than M/F.
Hm, interesting point! I like talking about feelings, just not in a syrupy way...
I felt a strong dissatisfaction with female characters in romance novels - you could even say I hated most of them. The ones with the violet or emerald eyes. The dainty waist, the full breats and the wheat-coloured or raven or flaming locks. They were all weak and needy. Some of them more obvious than others. And the obvious ones were the better. The not so obvious ones are the devious ones - where you could nearly believe that they were kind of /a little bit / might have sniffed a whiff of empancipation. And then the alpha/warrior/saviour comes and they show that they have seen the error of their ways...
Ok, I am going to stop now, before my head explodes :DDDD
I agree that the female is mostly "weaker" than the Alpha male or the male in general because this is what we are "used" to for better or worst but I feel like lately I'm reading more heroines I love, I really enjoy Ruthie Knox's characters (either M or F actually) more realistic and STRONG.
But you know what, a while back I was thinking of the "Beyond" series and the fact that the women are strong there, yeah, but still the guy is the alpha and he is the strong one and all of that, then I thought to myself - why can't we have ONE book in which the girl is the alpha and the guy is the more submissive and then I was re-thinking it all since I KNOW I wouldn't be able to respect him / be interested in him. then I said to myself - the hell with it!
We women nothing can satisfy us :P
you are right - I think I wouldn't want to read about a weak or submissive man - at least not too often. But what romance books lack mostly for me is equality. That both main characters are on eye-level. That he is not much more successfull and important than her, and richer, and tougher, and more experienced and so on. There are very rarely books that really have a good romance and still don't make me feel like I should bring the man a beer and be glad for a pat on my ass...
Try reading Ruthie Knox (or Robin York in her NA name), you'd really like her. Her characters doesn't feel this way AT ALL. I SO agree with you, I guess I look in books for the same thing that I do in life in this sense to feel that while M/F are different from one another neither is better even if he/she is good at specific staff better than the other.
It was shitty. Really really shitty. I am totally mystified as to who might enjoy this kind of "book"...
I wonder who do you fall into these terrible books! I somehow feel so lucky that I have less DNF but they ARE increasing as my reading lists grows.. you might also be less patient than I am :)
I download huge quantities of free books - they offer many first books in series' to bait readers...
I think that M/M is just, well, different? I don't consider it better/worst then M/M. The IS a certain appeal to two males and no hysterical woman but I won't read this kind of heroine anyhow.. so I don't know..
For me it's checking out books I got recommendation of, I usually don't "venture" to try free books just because they're free I get so many recommendations through the blogs I know I won't have the time for more. I guess another option is to work with NetGally or something like that so you can get books you actually want for free in exchange for your review.
Sometimes I do find some hidden gems, but admittedly rather rarely..
M/M is different - but one of the joys of it is, that there are no female characters I can't identify with.
Although I started hating the hateful female characters in m/m...
I guess it's also interesting when you don't have anyone you could REALLY identify with (since they are both guys) but you could really relate in a different way since we don't really think like guys do. I think what was funny for me the first time I read M/M was that guys don't talk about it :) they don't! Girls wants to talk about everything and anything. I guess I'm like that too, though on certain things I AM like a guy I can really be incapable of speaking of my emotions.
I also think since I'm not a girly girl (well, lets put the makeup and nail polish aside for now ;)) I react better to M/M than M/F.
I felt a strong dissatisfaction with female characters in romance novels - you could even say I hated most of them. The ones with the violet or emerald eyes. The dainty waist, the full breats and the wheat-coloured or raven or flaming locks. They were all weak and needy. Some of them more obvious than others. And the obvious ones were the better. The not so obvious ones are the devious ones - where you could nearly believe that they were kind of /a little bit / might have sniffed a whiff of empancipation. And then the alpha/warrior/saviour comes and they show that they have seen the error of their ways...
Ok, I am going to stop now, before my head explodes :DDDD
But you know what, a while back I was thinking of the "Beyond" series and the fact that the women are strong there, yeah, but still the guy is the alpha and he is the strong one and all of that, then I thought to myself - why can't we have ONE book in which the girl is the alpha and the guy is the more submissive and then I was re-thinking it all since I KNOW I wouldn't be able to respect him / be interested in him. then I said to myself - the hell with it!
We women nothing can satisfy us :P