Torchwood: Border Princes
Feb. 7th, 2007 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSo, started reading 'Border Princes'
am up to page 42
... let me get this straight:
somebody wrote Marty Stu fanfic
for money
that got published?
And it's clumsy clunky writing so far. Too impressed with verbal ingenuity - all that Captain Analogy bollocks. No individual character voice, none that shows up within Team Torchwood anyway.
People who've actually read it: Is there in fact reason to read the whole thing?
Is it some cunning plan Superstar type setup where this 'James' bloke is meant to be a WTF?
Or is he just the guy we've never heard of who is suddenly the heart of the team?
As of now I'm giving up on it and reading the other one. Odds of it staying given up on are fairly low, since I can't even seem to give up on fanfic series I hate loathe and detest. But right now this is not looking like a book I'll be glad to have spent money on.
am up to page 42
... let me get this straight:
somebody wrote Marty Stu fanfic
for money
that got published?
And it's clumsy clunky writing so far. Too impressed with verbal ingenuity - all that Captain Analogy bollocks. No individual character voice, none that shows up within Team Torchwood anyway.
People who've actually read it: Is there in fact reason to read the whole thing?
Is it some cunning plan Superstar type setup where this 'James' bloke is meant to be a WTF?
Or is he just the guy we've never heard of who is suddenly the heart of the team?
As of now I'm giving up on it and reading the other one. Odds of it staying given up on are fairly low, since I can't even seem to give up on fanfic series I hate loathe and detest. But right now this is not looking like a book I'll be glad to have spent money on.
Re: Border Princes - WTF? Indeed.
Date: 2007-02-09 10:58 pm (UTC)my thoughts after finishing it
which are basically the same
just with more detail
It read very much like they'd either read far too much fanfic (to think this was a good idea) or not enough (to be under the sad impression this was original).