tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9293137.post7967094260206455834..comments2023-05-08T09:56:32.373-04:00Comments on Library Hungry: Secrets and LiesLibraryHungryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01981967495068772927noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9293137.post-66916305762693150262013-06-23T10:45:52.076-04:002013-06-23T10:45:52.076-04:00People keeping secrets (or just generally not usin...People keeping secrets (or just generally not using their words) for no good reason bugs me because it is such a terribly lazy way of generating conflict. This is sitcom-level stuff. Or Romance novels sold in supermarkets in the 1980's. The heroine sees the hero kissing another girl on the cheek in the garden and, devastated by his betrayal, she dresses as a boy and runs off to sea (despite having zero experience with either boats or men), only to be taken by pirates and discovered as a woman, and when the hero comes to rescue her from certain rape she angrily refuses both to go with him and to tell him why she's so pissed. And then the other woman turns out to be cousin or something. <br /><br />The paranoid agoraphobiac refusing to call for that pesky police backup strikes me as that level of maddening. As someone once said, if you're going to have your unarmed and nightgon-clad heroine go sneaking around a haunted castle because she heard a NOISE, she better have a damn solid reason why that is her only option.Lianna Williamsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08664487011301126451noreply@blogger.com