Dear Furries: Please, PLEASE stop giving Lisanne Norman money.

[elfs]

Dear Furries:

Look, I know you all love Lisanne Norman. She gave you something that had been sorely missing from your life: a commercially viable book series featuring hot, sexy catboys. Turning Point was a good effort for a first-time author, truly, and I enjoyed it, as well as the sequel, Fortune's Wheel, but by the time we'd gotten to The Fire Margins we were into "A word processor does to words what a food processor does to food" territory. Every bad genre and trope rose and fell in those books, continuity depended upon a tragically battered suspension of disbelief, the villains twirled their reptilian mustaches. By the time we'd gotten to Dark Nadir I'd swear we were on the verge of seeing someone throw a Pokéball out.

I just saw that there's a new book out. And in keeping with the blender trope, there's a goddamn mecha on the cover. Not just any mecha, but a mecha with a cat's head! Behind a gangplank with character poses plagarized from any number of bad anime.

Please, do us all a favor: convince Lisanne to write something else. Anything else. This cliché ridden series just has to end. Really.

Comments

[hydrolagus.livejournal.com]

Perhaps that last title is a clue...

[nbarnes.livejournal.com]

It does seem like a moment of unintentional self-revelation.

[ben-raccoon.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of her, and I suspect I should be glad. o.o

[vik_thor]

Agreement.
of course, I'm not extremely involved in furry, but still...

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

I've read older stuff of hers (like 15-20 years?). She has some nice run of the mill type sci-fi & fantasy. Not particularly bad, but not brilliant either. Generally I could take or leave her work and would probably only read library copies rather than spending money on one (I save my money for the brilliant authors).

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Is this self-published perchance?

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

Don't be shy, tell us what you REALLY feel. :-D

So... worse than Twilight?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

In a different way. It was the self-serving time-travel "but it all works out because the author says it does" Mary-Sueism that really drove me up the wall. We're talking decadent-era Dr. Who levels of science silliness.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

After the second book, I began to see the Mary Sue aspects. And when the time travel began -- you know perfectly well what the pros say about time travel stories.

heheheh, pokeball. Sure, why not? :)