#29 – Lay, Lie, or Laine?

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Re: Discussion Thread

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT, finally found this book out in the wild. No pun intended. I opened it and the first page I open, I find that it's alternating first person POV, my least favorite form of romance POV, and that the author knows nothing about how the NHL, the minor leagues, or the draft work. So, this is definitely a no.

Re: Discussion Thread

[(Anonymous)]

apologies for reccing something that REALLY didn't work for you. (pretty sure at the time i read it *i* didn't know enough about any of the business side details to notice even really enormous fail on the author's, and i've read so many romances that i almost *expect* pro stuff to be alternating first person POV.)

*makes sad face, hopes you at least didn't PAY for the displeasure other than the "support your local library" kind*

Re: Discussion Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, no, it was the original book I was grousing about that didn't work, not your rec! I haven't read your rec yet because I'm up to my neck in research materials for the fic I'm writing.

Re: Discussion Thread

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

best of luck with the research/writing, and i'll cross my fingers that the rec's closer to your tastes :).

Re: Discussion Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Aw, I love alternating first person POV — assuming it's really alternating (such as on a chapter by chapter basis) and not doing that thing where POV just jumps around to whomever's convenient with no rhyme or reason from paragraph to paragaph.

Re: Discussion Thread

[(Anonymous)]

It's a genre signal for me rather than a craft one; the signal is "this is New Adult." New Adult does not work for me at all. A lot of the self-pubbed NA, especially in sports romance, reads as mental children in adult bodies to me.

Headhopping/badly crafted 3rd person omniscient is far less common in 21st century romance novels than it was in previous decades. I almost never come across it.