Give completism a chance

[stephbg]

I have almost all the genre works of Anne McCaffrey. It's a Thing that's cost me a lot of money and lost hours and san points over the years, but there you have it. Some of them are quite good.

I have managed to avoid a few recent works about The Twins of Petaybee, and it only took me three novels Powers That Be, Power Lines and Power Play (all co-authored with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough) to figure out that these were just not going to get any better and to quit while I was not too far behind. The one potentially interesting character became insufferably wet as soon as she got pregnant. But, needing some unchallenging reading recently I reread all three, understanding that I might be putting myself at risk of Needing To Find Out What Happens Next.

Risk averted - the books were even more dull than I'd remembered, and I have no desire to read more glacially-paced stories about cute kids, telepathic cats, unicorns, and space pirates (BTW these are a completely different set of kids/cats/unicorns/pirates from the Acorna books). I can see the attraction for a certain audience, but it's an audience of which I am not a part.

Is it just that these are kids books masquerading as adult books? Or is there something wrong with me? Being in the grip of a really nasty flare might have literally have distroyed my ability to enjoy life for a while :-(

*sigh*

Anyone out there read the Petaybee books?

Comments

[thefon.livejournal.com]

That's a dragon too far.
Her writing went terribly downhill after the last few Pern.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

The Crystal Singer is one of my very favourite books, but even its sequels were pants. Destroyed by Twu Wuv.