{"id":265,"date":"2004-05-14T18:48:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T22:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=265"},"modified":"2004-05-14T18:48:31","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T22:48:31","slug":"brockmann_suzan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/05\/brockmann_suzan\/","title":{"rendered":"Brockmann, Suzanne: Heart Throb"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here we go with the catching-up. First, a batch of trash read at work [continued to two next posts for import into MT]:<\/p>\n

Heart Throb<\/cite> by Suzanne Brockmann<\/strong> is a genre romance that was re-issued with a special $3.99 cover price. I saw it at the grocery store one day, recalled that I’d heard the author’s name before, and said “Why not?” So, publishers, this stuff works—except you want to make sure it’s a good<\/em> book you’re trying to get people to pick up. This is not, and I will be strongly reluctant to try other Brockmann novels as a result.<\/p>\n

Heart Throb<\/cite> does have its strong points. It is a romance of the “force characters into close proximity by any means possible” type, and the proximity-forcing device sounds completely idiotic when summarized (movie producer desperately needs star for movie, must stay with star every waking moment to make sure star doesn’t relapse into addiction); however, the book does put a fair bit of effort into making the premise a teeny bit plausible, kinda-sorta. It has an actual interracial romance—as a secondary plot, granted, but still.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the central relationship—well. Bujold readers, remember when Ekaterin asks Miles if he’s trying to one-up her dead? All the central protagonists do<\/em> is one-up each other’s angst; it’s what passes for relationship development, the constant revelations of even deeper levels of angst. I might have loved it when I was younger, but it’s astonishingly tiresome now. Not recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here we go with the catching-up. First, a batch of trash read at work [continued to two next posts for import into MT]: Heart Throb by Suzanne Brockmann is a genre romance that was re-issued with a special $3.99 cover price. I saw it at the grocery store one day, recalled that I’d heard the … <\/p>\n

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