Bookkeeping

[stillsostrange]

17. Rises the Night - Colleen Gleason

Unlike magicnoire, I am firmly not in the Pesaro camp. If there's anything worse than an asshole, it's a brooding asshole. I'll take sleaze over asshole any day. However, I found the triumph of the asshole telegraphed in neon in the first book, so it doesn't come as any great shock to me to learn how the series turns out. And they're fun, so I'll keep reading.

(I am certainly feeling uncharitable due to illness, but he's really an asshole.)

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I would never have doubted the triumph of the brooding asshole, if I hadn't made the mistake of looking online and reading other reviews of the books and realized that there's a larger contingent of people who believe the sleaze would have been the final choice. Which, of course, made me stop and look back and say, "Oh hell, have I been reading this book wrong the entire time?"

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

How weird. Of course, I'm just bitter, because it seems like every time I run across a love triangle in fiction, the person I'm rooting for never has a chance in hell. :P

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Having been in that position myself many a time when it comes to my Japanese media, I completely understand.

To be fair (or not), many of those other folks were romance readers and romance readers tend to operate on the notion that the heroine sleeps with no one but the man she'll end up with.