There has to be some level of romance blogger combat pay that can be granted to Jane and Robin for reviewing Death by Ploot Ploot.
Wow. Just… wow.
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I can’t get past the title, so my admiration and sympathies are with you both.
Would a bottle of Tylenol No. 1 be appropriate? Or do we have to bust out the No. 3?
The story is so short that the excerpts they shared are probably 75% of the story.
And as much as I’m determined not to buy it after the last fiasco & the bad reviews of the book (not to mention the bad title), I still have to keep talking myself out of buying it.
Stockholm syndrome anyone?
For a long time I thought I didn’t like SF/F, because it annoyed the shit out of me that we are on another world, perhaps in another dimension, so there must be a different word for everything, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE ALL SPEAKING ENGLISH HERE! You know, water isn’t water on this planet, it’s pleee and sex isn’t sex, it’s deegari. The description of this book reminds me of those old, horrible experiences. Thank God I found better SF/F as an adult.
“I sentence you to death! Death by snu-snu!”
Nevermind the Tylenol, get them some Malox STAT!
Okay. I’m confused. Does ploot-ploot actually mean something and I am not hip enough to get it or is Dara Joy just makin’ shit up?
No, it means something. Something gross. As I read the review, I kept wonding how it fit into the story.
Forget the Tylenol—I’d need a bottle of vodka to get through that book.
From the Urban Dictionary
Ploot
Once you know you can never unlearn it though, so proceed with caution.
Meh, Dara lost me when she co-opted light sabers. I told everyone I read and loved KOATS and Rejar, because everybody just went batshit for them, but I honestly could not get past light sabers. I just felt like, “come on, lady, it’s not like you’re fooling anybody into thinking you came up with that on your own.”
Usually, I won’t publicly say boo about another author and use names, but she up and offended my Star Wars-ian sense of decency.
And as much as I’m determined not to buy it after the last fiasco & the bad reviews of the book (not to mention the bad title), I still have to keep talking myself out of buying it.
Maybe this will convince you: the PDF file is encrypted with a password—provided to you by Joy’s webmaster—that is required to open the document EVERY SINGLE TIME. I had a couple of moments where I wondered if they were actively discouraging people from actually reading the thing (let alone re-reading).
According to the eBay ad he also watermarks it with the name and email address of the person he sells it to for the sake of “security”.
I hate it when people do that. I have no desire to read the story or pirate it, but I am so tempted to buy it to see if I could take the security provisions apart.
I really find this whole Dara Joy thing interesting. Romance fans are usually so loyal and will whine and beg for an author to write ANYTHING.
I was one of the whiners wanting more from Dara Joy……….years ago. Now, not so much.
I refuse to lower myself to buy anything with “ploot ploot ” in the title. And yes, I looked at the definition and yes, I want to boil my eyeballs now.
As a reader, I don’t care about contractual problems and business matters between author and publisher. I don’t care about her side, publisher side, lawyer side,underside. I ‘m a consumer, I care about what’s on the store shelf and what I choose to put on my bookshelf.
dara joy is not my cuppa. i have a problem with almost everything about her work, from plot to character development (or lack thereof), dialogue, titles, etc. i think rejar was the book that prompted me to write my first amazon review since i found it so abhorrent.
my college roommate and i have been trading the same copy of rejar since 2000. when i visit her, she ditches it in my luggage. when i go back to visit her, i leave it in her freezer. stuff like that. it’s a fun game.
I’m with Aimee.
I remember reading Ritual of Proof and thinking that it was sort of an awkward try at role-reversal, where the female protagonist none the less learned to love taking it lying on her back.
*Not that I object to the position as such, mind ;>*
Never been a fan of “masterful” alpha heroes either.
And then, of course, there is the much mocked cover of Wildcat Arrows
P.S. There’s a problem with preview. It requests that I submit the spamfoiler word, but doesn’t provide me with the option to do so.
WHO is the guy on Wildcat Arrows? Looks like Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons come to life.
I think it’s her boyfriend, Rebecca. I’m glad he’s her hero and all, but that doesn’t mean he does it for the rest of us.
yeah, ploot ploot is a phrase I don’t want shoved into my brain, thank you for doing that.