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Follow up to yesterday's rant
May. 31st, 2011 10:10 pmI downloaded a sample of one of the books that was recommended to me. The writing was good enough that I was actually tempted to buy it and read it...
But when the author commits no fewer than three separate errors about the heroine's clothing in the first few pages, what's the point? If she can't be arsed to spend ten minutes looking at a copy of Francois Boucher so she'd know that a respectable 14th century woman didn't go out in public bareheaded, or that the trim on her gown would have been a detachable band, not embroidery, or that the heroine could not possibly tuck her coins in her bodice because clothing in the 1320s didn't HAVE bodices, well, I can't be arsed to read her book.
And that was the best of the four samples I downloaded based on recommendations from DKos.
Somehow I don't think I'm going to make a romance reader.
But when the author commits no fewer than three separate errors about the heroine's clothing in the first few pages, what's the point? If she can't be arsed to spend ten minutes looking at a copy of Francois Boucher so she'd know that a respectable 14th century woman didn't go out in public bareheaded, or that the trim on her gown would have been a detachable band, not embroidery, or that the heroine could not possibly tuck her coins in her bodice because clothing in the 1320s didn't HAVE bodices, well, I can't be arsed to read her book.
And that was the best of the four samples I downloaded based on recommendations from DKos.
Somehow I don't think I'm going to make a romance reader.
