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 Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:49 pm
Hooboy.
In case you haven't heard yet, there's a new published phic on the shelves now. A one "Deception" by Shirley Yoshinaka. Painted Black found the novel on sale on Ebay, but I found out it's for sale on Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com.
I couldn't get the official synopsis of the book, but the low-down is basically another sequal that seems based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's version (gee thanks, Webber[/sarcasm]).
After Erik leaves Paris when he lets Christine go, he runs to London where he lives in a secluded country home on the outskirts of the city. So he resigns himself to a life of living all by his onesies until two years later "fate" introduces him to a young woman who "awakens his emotions".
I'm not buying it so I can't give the ever famous Uta-Review. Maybe if it comes to a library near me I'll pick it up, but I doubt since I don't wander there much.
But all in all it seems like the typical Erik-goes-emo-until-a-marysue-loves-him kinda thing. Just an update to add to our growing list of "why are these published?" books.
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:22 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:59 pm
Why do people even bother to publish those things? They're terrible and a waste of good paper.
And anyway, what's with the emo Eriks? I'm really inclined to hit ALW for popularizing the concept.
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:57 pm
Well I've been told these sorts of authors use publishing companies they have to pay to get their book on shelves. It's a bit stupid if you ask me when you have to pay for something like that when the publishing company should do it because it's a good book.
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:14 pm
Eh, at least it's not E/C... Though the number of phangirls who think their second-rate phic needs to be published baffles me.
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:03 pm
No, it's worse than E/C.
What I'm waiting for is the one with enough balls to publish a slash!
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:03 pm
Very little is worse than a badly written E/C.
At least with E/OW only one canon character is mutilated.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:13 am
Yes but that also says something about the author when the original character, for lack of better words, "sucks it hard." It shows their lack of skills in successfully creating someone from scratch, much less keeping someone else's character entirely in-character. That and it shows their creativity is snot and thus the plot and story would be nothing but BS.
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