ARCHIVE Reader Reviews Romance: Brier Hospital Trapped

My actual notes while reading:

The cyndi hawkins baby goes from a 24 week premie to 27 weeks, either continuity or the lead character perjured himself. respiratory distress and signs of brain damage 950 grams. claims that a 24 week premie has 50% then a 27 week has the same. CP is not obvious 6-9 months after birth. Then it claims the same for a 34 week baby. The actual survival figures at 34 weeks are 90%.

Lets get all kissy face over our argument about a child's horrific disabilities and the parents inability to afford care for them. These people are horrible. The two leads deserve each other and may they live long and happily together protecting the rest of the world from their godawful neuroses.

And if the hospital failed to tell the parents that "No heroic measures" was an option or give the parents an accurate prognosis of brain damage they are liable as hell.

And the entire NICU staff leave their posts to spend fifteen minutes listening to the row and then the couple kissing. Glad they are so much more important than all those dying babies.

"Candor is an endangered species" he says right after screaming his head off at the female lead because she was candid about the fact he's an insurance whore.

but never mind, we hear all about her silks and diamonds and his sports car (brand and model), so they know what matters.

she's concerned about animal cruelty in veal making. He tells her just not to think about it. Our hero. But then she's going to first-date-fuck because she's seen his sports car and now knows he's everything she's ever wanted in a guy, so its okay. Just a shame he gets cock-blocked because his beeper reminded him of all those sick children.

These are awful, awful, people.

I just realised she was going to first-date him at his place. Then that stops her seeing her roomate who apparently intended to open the door to her and her boyfriend (remember the guy is both of their bosses) in her lingerie to try to steal her man.

The first sex scene wasn't erotic. I was laughing too hard at unfortunate word choice that revealed Mike's secret affiliction of gynomastica.

I can honestly say that one line is about as erotic as "I want to wear your skin". That would get you whalloped with a nearby heavy object. Her response is Glenn Close-worthy. Truly these two were made for each other.

The doctor who works in a sterile environment wants to endanger hundreds of lives by not washing so he can smell of her always.

chapter 25 has an entire year pass. no followup from camera man or tv, no suing after Mike hit the guy? Really?

He went from a 2 month coma onto a walker and going home in two weeks. There are no mentions of the long term physical and mental effects of brain damage, just that he has PTSD. No memory loss, no aphasia...

 

Okay, so why don't you tell us what you really think?

I can see why these aren't going on the site.

 

I can't get over the fact she swears!

What makes it worse is I've read it and the fact issues are right, and now I can't unsee them.

 

You're a hard, hard, woman...never knew you had it in you!

 

Well, you know now, and now you know why I do not review romance.

I genuinely prefer to give good reviews. Sadly some books don't make that possible.

 

I don't suppose there is any, even the slightest, most remote chance, I could interest you in a book called Twilight?

Please?

 

No.

 

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That. was. Awesome!

Can we have another one?

 

It is hardly awesome. It is a rather mean-spirited dissection of an author's work by a person who acknowledges outright that they will never be part of its target audience.

Doing another one would mean that I would have to read another romance book, and that is extremely unlikely.

 

Aww. Come on. Kick a bit harder and you can make the author cry.

 

It takes no great skill or talent to be nasty about a book. For examples, all you have to do is look at what many reviewers say about indie books, sometimes without reading them, or they fact that they simply won't review them.

Critical dissection, finding every flaw in a book with far too many, takes a lot more time and effort. Frankly I'd rather spend that time on books I enjoy.

Why don't you try writing one. Believe me, there are a lot of books asking for it.

 

Deleted by mod. That is unacceptable on this board.

 

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I apologise to the board. That was unworthy of me.

 

Shame. I like the reminder she was reviewing when he was in nappies.

 

How did I miss this the first time around...

...and when is the next one?

Hey Reader. Is it the genre you hate or just the way people act stupid in love?

 

I knew what was coming - I didn't need to read the review having been on the receiving end before now.

 

The entire club has been on the receiving end before now, for which I do not apologise. You knew what was coming when you made me read those books.

What I hate is not "people acting stupid in love", it is "stupid people in love, acting". A subtle but essential distinction.

A more recent read has the stunning attorney fall for the hunky rich suspect who is accused of murder, but she knows he didn't do it, not because of the evidence or the DNA, but because he's just that good-looking. I would have given that book every star I had spare if he had been guilty and using her. Instead he gets off because of random reasons, notably not innocence, and in real life would be headed for a retrial not Marbella with the prosecuting attorney. Oh, didn't I mention she was the prosecutor?