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SBD: Where'd they go?
KristieJ's talking comfort reads today at Reader Gab.
What do I have to SBD about today?
Yesterday as I read Seressia Glass’s No Commitment Required I hit a wall. Not because of the writing, not because of the plot, not because of anything internal. As I moved from the bottom of one page to the top of another, the transition made no sense. The paragraph ended at the bottom of the page, where did this dialogue come from? Then I checked the page numbers. I hit a wall because the freakin’ book skipped from page 146 to page 178. Now, I was cruising along, enjoying the book. It wasn’t screaming “keeper” for me, but I was liking it and wondering where the author was taking me since the book was not quite half way through. She had some work to do, since I was picking up some vibes about heroine’s mental stability that made me wonder about her as a candidate for an HEA. (Crazy People with psychological problems deserve love, too, but IMO it’s hard and I speak from family experience.)
Publishers, how do you skip 30 pages in a book and not notice? Did they just fall out? I know nothing about printing, but I think it unlikely that this happened in one book of a print run of 10,000? 100,000? How do they just disappear? (Note: I flipped through to see if it the pages were just out of order; nope, gone.) Do you care? You should, because those missing 30 pages lost a reader.
I’m probably not going to learn now where the author took the story, although presumably there’s an HEA. The vendor is sending me a new copy gratis and I’m returning my defective copy, but now that I’ve put the book down, I’m not sure when I’ll pick it up again, if ever. The new book won’t arrive for at least a week. And my attention span? Gnat-sized. Between now and whenever the new copy arrives, I’ll have read at least one more book, if not more, and I’ll have moved on to either something new or something that has been in Mt. TBR or (most likely) to one of the library books that I must read and return post haste.
Shame, 'cause NRC was a B read for me til I hit the page gap.
Post script -- loved the cover, loved it. But it seemed more suitable for an erotic romance. NCR had one or two love scenes (up to p. 146, at least) but they were not particularly hot.
What do I have to SBD about today?
Yesterday as I read Seressia Glass’s No Commitment Required I hit a wall. Not because of the writing, not because of the plot, not because of anything internal. As I moved from the bottom of one page to the top of another, the transition made no sense. The paragraph ended at the bottom of the page, where did this dialogue come from? Then I checked the page numbers. I hit a wall because the freakin’ book skipped from page 146 to page 178. Now, I was cruising along, enjoying the book. It wasn’t screaming “keeper” for me, but I was liking it and wondering where the author was taking me since the book was not quite half way through. She had some work to do, since I was picking up some vibes about heroine’s mental stability that made me wonder about her as a candidate for an HEA. (
Publishers, how do you skip 30 pages in a book and not notice? Did they just fall out? I know nothing about printing, but I think it unlikely that this happened in one book of a print run of 10,000? 100,000? How do they just disappear? (Note: I flipped through to see if it the pages were just out of order; nope, gone.) Do you care? You should, because those missing 30 pages lost a reader.
I’m probably not going to learn now where the author took the story, although presumably there’s an HEA. The vendor is sending me a new copy gratis and I’m returning my defective copy, but now that I’ve put the book down, I’m not sure when I’ll pick it up again, if ever. The new book won’t arrive for at least a week. And my attention span? Gnat-sized. Between now and whenever the new copy arrives, I’ll have read at least one more book, if not more, and I’ll have moved on to either something new or something that has been in Mt. TBR or (most likely) to one of the library books that I must read and return post haste.
Shame, 'cause NRC was a B read for me til I hit the page gap.
Post script -- loved the cover, loved it. But it seemed more suitable for an erotic romance. NCR had one or two love scenes (up to p. 146, at least) but they were not particularly hot.
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