Comments on: Rush (The Breathless Trilogy) – Maya Banks https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/02/28/rush-the-breathless-trilogy-maya-banks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rush-the-breathless-trilogy-maya-banks Erotic writing, toys, and a little bit of kink. Come and find out what we’re doing behind the drapes ... Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Jane https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/02/28/rush-the-breathless-trilogy-maya-banks/#comment-15715 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:05:17 +0000 https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/chintzcurtain/?p=4517#comment-15715 Wow. Pressure. Okay …
- Ridiculous plot: Wild Card by Lora Leigh.
- Too-stupid-to-live character: Marissa from Lover Revealed. She was like nails on a blackboard. I like the Black Dagger Brotherhood series but I hated this particular book. And I was annoyed that Butch and V didn’t end up together …
- Crazy sauce justification: I can only have anal sex with a woman because she might die and get pregnant. Yes, I’m looking at YOU Deke from Decadent. I bought this after reading the hilarious Smart Bitches review a few years back (http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/blog/decadent_by_shayla_black). I knew going in it would be completely cock-eyed and all I can remember of it is this now famous bit of dialogue: “F*cking her ass. Saving her life.”

]]> By: Genevieve https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/02/28/rush-the-breathless-trilogy-maya-banks/#comment-15711 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:05:14 +0000 https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/chintzcurtain/?p=4517#comment-15711 Ok, name one in each category! I want/need to know which ones you persevered with to the bitter end…

]]> By: Jane https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/02/28/rush-the-breathless-trilogy-maya-banks/#comment-15706 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:21:31 +0000 https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/chintzcurtain/?p=4517#comment-15706 I totally agree; if it’s bad, it never gets better. Ever!

I think I have the train-wreck mentality, i.e. can’t look away from fiction catastrophes, no matter how horrendous :-/ Having said that, though, grammar and/or punctuation issues will cause me to abandon a book immediately. Clumsy prose, continuity errors and poor editorial choices will, too.

Books that fall into my ‘dreadful but I’m still reading it bucket’ are usually well-written but have one or all of the following:
- ridiculous or hackneyed plots
- too-stupid-to-live characters
- crazy-sauce justifications for protagonists behaving like complete twits.

]]> By: Genevieve https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/02/28/rush-the-breathless-trilogy-maya-banks/#comment-15685 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:11:11 +0000 https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/chintzcurtain/?p=4517#comment-15685 Am awaiting joint reviews…no pressure.
Surely if it’s superbad it’s not going to get any better/worse overall?
What makes it bad for you – plot/character development? For me it has to be grammar/punctuation/lack of continuity and trying to work out where or what someone is doing – I hate it when you have to re-read just to work out if he is taking her from behind/inverted/69 or just plain missionary!

]]> By: Jane https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/02/28/rush-the-breathless-trilogy-maya-banks/#comment-15643 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:02:06 +0000 https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/chintzcurtain/?p=4517#comment-15643 Yeah, I’m going to speak to Michael about another joint review. We quite enjoyed doing this one.

I was actually the first to finish Rush – Michael was trying to keep me on task when he noticed how long I was taking to read it :-). Sometimes, if something is superbad, I feel compelled to keep going just to see how terrible it is overall …

]]> By: Genevieve https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/02/28/rush-the-breathless-trilogy-maya-banks/#comment-15496 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:01:17 +0000 https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/chintzcurtain/?p=4517#comment-15496 Great joint rant, so succinctly summed up.
Particularly loved the ‘are you going to finish this or what?’
Nothing quite like a bit on online nagging…
Have enjoyed Maya Banks in the past but not one for me this time

Can you do another joint read please? I enjoyed reading both view points/rants.

ps Jane, one of my life mantras is ‘life’s too short to finish a book you’re really not enjoying especially when there are so many good reads out there’ – and besides I think Michael pretty much said it all

]]> By: Madijo @ Fixing Me https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/2013/02/28/rush-the-breathless-trilogy-maya-banks/#comment-13940 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:52:59 +0000 https://behindthechintzcurtain.com/chintzcurtain/?p=4517#comment-13940 As always, both of you wrote fantastic reviews! I have been falling off the Maya Banks band wagon lately, so may pass this one up.

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