I admit, the one reason I hold such a violent grudge against it.
Me too. House of Night had so much potential, being a book where the supernatural elements didn’t have to hide under a façade (like most modern fantasy books, y’know Harry Potter, the one that started the trend, Mortal Instruments, TwiShit,Percy Jackson etc.) had a lot of potential; it could’ve really explored what it would be like if vampires and humans existed side by side in the modern world, instead 99% of the book is about Zoey being a judgemental bitch.
Your brainstorming was lots of help (and quite amusing).
So you admit to soliciting ideas from other people instead of coming up with anything on your own?
PC and Kristin would both like to thank their dad/grandpa, Dick Cast, for the biological hypothesis he helped create failing to explain proper biology and instead just pulled random stuff out of his ass.
Once again, the Casts admit to being too lazy to do what they, as writers should’ve done themselves, and they do so in the first page of the first book. Not very professional.
As for the counts, I have a feeling that the Miss Judgemental count is gonna go over 9000, and Vampire Elitist Snobs and Interfaith Smoothie won’t be too far behind (especially the latter, since butchering mythology especially Greek mythology seems to be PC Cast’s favourite hobby, judging by her other books).
Nest of luck to the both of you, House of Night pissed me off so much I couldn’t even finish the first one. It’s on the same level as Hush Hush—mind-blowingly awful.
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Date: 2015-01-08 07:54 pm (UTC)Me too. House of Night had so much potential, being a book where the supernatural elements didn’t have to hide under a façade (like most modern fantasy books, y’know Harry Potter, the one that started the trend, Mortal Instruments, TwiShit,Percy Jackson etc.) had a lot of potential; it could’ve really explored what it would be like if vampires and humans existed side by side in the modern world, instead 99% of the book is about Zoey being a judgemental bitch.
Your brainstorming was lots of help (and quite amusing).
So you admit to soliciting ideas from other people instead of coming up with anything on your own?
PC and Kristin would both like to thank their dad/grandpa, Dick Cast, for
the biological hypothesis he helped createfailing to explain proper biology and instead just pulled random stuff out of his ass.Once again, the Casts admit to being too lazy to do what they, as writers should’ve done themselves, and they do so in the first page of the first book. Not very professional.
As for the counts, I have a feeling that the Miss Judgemental count is gonna go over 9000, and Vampire Elitist Snobs and Interfaith Smoothie won’t be too far behind (especially the latter, since butchering mythology especially Greek mythology seems to be PC Cast’s favourite hobby, judging by her other books).
Nest of luck to the both of you, House of Night pissed me off so much I couldn’t even finish the first one. It’s on the same level as Hush Hush—mind-blowingly awful.