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Islandgirl2
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 Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:14 pm Post subject: One Hit Wonder author |
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Have you ever had a romance that you absoutely loved but then you try more from the author and they can't grab you like that one did.
Has happened to me with a few. From the top of my head Jill Barnett Wonderful. Loved it tried two others couldn't get into either.
The Rake by Mary Jo Putney. Tried others but nothing.
Innocence Undone by Kat Martin (Probably due to the secondary couple)
Any one hit wonders for you?
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Ash
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| It happened to me too with Sarah Maclean. her book "Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake" has a position on my DIK shelf but the rest of her books were just okay reads. |
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Cora
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I loved Firestorm, a paranormal romantic suspense novel by Iris Johansen. I bought a couple of other romantic suspense novels by her, but never found one I enjoyed as much as the first one.
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Nicole
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Anne Stuart. I liked Ruthless, but everything else I've read from her left me cold.
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Jane A
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| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| For me it's Christina Dodd. I love A Candle in the Window, it's a DIK for me that I reread frequently. I really don't care much for anything else she's written, they've all been pretty meh for me. |
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WandaSue
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| For me, it's The Duke by Gaelen Foley. All her others ... meh. |
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MEK
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I loved, loved, loved Catherine Anderson's Comanche Moon for its gritty tale of hatred turned to love and trust, but I could never connect with the author's other books, and I tried several. CM remains a favorite reread. I can still recite lines from the book!
Stephanie Lauren's The Devil's Bride is a great read. I could not get into the others in her series. |
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MEK
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I must have the touchiest mouse of all time....another double post!
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brwneyedbeauty
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| I loved Meredith Duran's The Duke of Shadows. It's one if the best debuts I've ever read. However, I don't like anything else by her. I really wanted to like her other books. |
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Nana
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| Other people love her, but my only Loretta Chase DIK is Mr. Impossible. Everything else was fine but not special to me. |
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PatW
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:52 am Post subject: |
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| Nana wrote: | | Other people love her, but my only Loretta Chase DIK is Mr. Impossible. Everything else was fine but not special to me. |
Now, this makes a lot of sense to me because imo Mr. Impossible is atypical of Chase, both in the setting and in the hero. So if you really like this one, the others could easily not be to your taste. To me, it was the other way around. While I enjoyed Mr. Impossible I didn't love it.
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Cora
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I just thought of another example, though it's not romance.
Several years ago I read The Anubis Gates, a time travel novel by Tim Powers, and absolutely loved it. I loved it so much that I immediately sought out everything else that Tim Powers wrote. And people whose judgment I trusted told me that his then latest novel Declare was even better than The Anubis Gates. So I read it and I hated it. I hated the characters, hated the plot, nitpicked the inaccuracies in his setting, disagreed with his politics and even hated how he mixed historical facts with fantasy and fiction (which I had loved in the earlier book), because the historical figures he was writing about had only been dead for a handful of years and still had living children, so turning them into villains for a piece of fiction seemed wrong.
As a result, I stayed away from Tim Powers books set in the 20th century, though I did check out his other novels with pre-20th century settings. But while I never disliked another book of his as vehemently as Declare, I never loved another as much as The Anubis Gates either. I haven't even bothered with the latest book of his.
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Natalie
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Suzanne Robinson, Lady Gallant
Haven't read her entire backlist, but I can attest none of the sequels are up to Lady Gallant's standard.
Elizabeth Hoyt, The Serpent Prince
Not that her other books are bad (most of them are pretty decent), they just didn't do much for compared to the Serpent Prince. I guess I just love when dangerous rogues fall hard (as opposed to not acknowledging their love untill the end of the book). |
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Natalie
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| WandaSue wrote: | | For me, it's The Duke by Gaelen Foley. All her others ... meh. |
Ditto. |
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Natalie
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| brwneyedbeauty wrote: | | I loved Meredith Duran's The Duke of Shadows. It's one if the best debuts I've ever read. However, I don't like anything else by her. I really wanted to like her other books. |
I felt the same way until I tried A Lady's Lesson in Scandal which was a solid B. And recently I've read At Your Pleasure that I absolutely love and it's now my favorite by Duran! |
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