Most disappointing read of 2005

[jmc_bks]

I have a hard time naming the "worst" read of 2005, although there were a few clunkers:

Just Friends to Just Married, a series romance that was a wallbanger with a selfish, unthinking, TSTL heroine who really needed to be slapped.

House Party, a traditional regency that was just awful.

LKH's latest entry to the sex-fest that has become the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series.

But the biggest disappointment of the year in reading is easy to name: Breaking Point by Suzanne Brockmann. The Max-Gina storyline was stretched over several books, but the ending wasn't very satisfying. Both heroines pregnant at the end? How coincidental. And pregnant for more or less the same reason, also a little too coincidental. Although Brockmann has shown that she's willing to kill off known characters in order to bump up the tension (Frank O'Leary, Angelina Vinh), I knew that the M-G HEA was coming, so the suspense wasn't all that suspenseful. Plus, Jules Cassidy, who was excellent in Hot Target, was over the top campy in BP.

Comments

Breaking Point

[rosario001.livejournal.com]

I think I'm still going to be reading this one, but I'm not particularly anxious to read it NOW, NOW,NOW, which was how I felt about Gone Too Far and Hot Target. Max and Gina lost me in Gone Too Far. That was when their storyline stopped making sense to me.

Re: Breaking Point

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

Don't let my disappointing vote put you off! BP wasn't *bad*, it just didn't live up to the expectations built through several books. Gone Too Far was very much the same for me.