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I TAKE IT BACK, GO BACK TO FUCKING THE HOUSE!

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3560655#cmt3560655)

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From: (Anonymous)

I perversely want to read this just to see how bad they are...

From: (Anonymous)

Oh god, please don't.

I've read almost all of Sherrilyn Kenyon's books out of a perverse sense of sunk cost - I started back in 2008 - and I'd only recommend them if you're into trashy romance that hits a very specific intersection of extremely bastardized Greek mythology with not-exactly-vampires, every character loudly claiming they are evil misanthropes but actually being sad misunderstood abuse victims who are whumped in graphic detail, and really complicated family trees where everyone has deadbeat dads and siblings they didn't know about and twin brothers who hate them. Despite my best efforts, my tastes are still in the exact same place they were when I was thirteen, so here I still am.

From: (Anonymous)

This still sounds tempting from a dumpster diving pov but imma level with ya, dan, from what you've said, it's probably not my cup of tea...

From: (Anonymous)

Forgot to mention that she also went through a phase where her books got really bad - romance novels are usually formulaic, but she was straight-up copy-pasting chapters from previous books into new books. Apparently she was going through a really bad divorce at the time where she accused her husband of poisoning her (?) and forcing her to sue Cassandra Clare for copyright infringement (??).

She's recovered a lot since then, but she puts so much of herself into all her characters that it's immediately obvious how much the divorce and one of her kids siding against her affected what she wants to write about.

From: (Anonymous)

K so the worst I've read in terms of trashy weird would be Mercedes Lackey's Vanyel trilogy and you are making me wonder really hard how bad she stacks up next to Vanyel.

I'd probably make comparisons to Ilona Andrews but actually I'm more or less just in it for the wholesome priest of Chernoborg lulz.

From: (Anonymous)

SD

Or:

Dan five seconds before disaster

Or:

In which danspace re-learns why the fastest way to get humans to do something is to say "Don't, terrible idea."

Alas for human perversity!