Re: first-person cupcakes

> I'm reading "Cupcakes, Trinkets and Magic", by Meghan Doidge. It's urban
> fantasy -- book one in the inevitable series. It's about a cupcake baker
> who is also half a witch. So far, there are vampires and werewolves, and
> it takes place in the Pacific Northwest. The vampires haven't started to
> sparkle yet, but it's early days.

A zombie showed up in the book. Of course.

I've finished this book now. It wasn't bad. There were some interesting
parts to it, and a couple good characters. The writing needs work and the
book needs editting. I'd say that the inconsistencies need to be cleared
up, but that'd completely disrupt one of the underlying plot points.

I have two big complaints about it. (Really three, but I've already whined
about the first-person.) First off, the heroine is an idiot. Time after
time after time, she kept saying and thinking and doing stupid things.
Certainly she had good reasons for not wanting to see who the Bad Guy was,
but when the reasons kept whapping her in the face with a shovel she should
have taken notice.

The second reason has two parts, but can be summed up as communications
problems. Second.1, the heroine's family kept her in the dark about a bunch
of things to "protect" her. Second.2, the non-heroine main characters kept
not communicating with the heroine, except by giving her significant looks.
And the looks were completely lost on the heroine because, as I said above,
she's an idiot.

I am really sick of fiction that only works because the characters are
idiots, don't communicate, or both.


ilana.halupovich@gmail.com said:
> Romances can be fun. If you want to read about Betsy the Vampire Queen,
> that thinks almost exclusively about shoes, try MaryJanice Davidson Undead
> series.

Ooooh, shoes! I *love* reading about shoes! That was the problem with the
cupcakes book. Shoes were only mentioned maybe 20 times. How on earth can
you have good character or plot development if shoes are mentioned so few
times?

> If you want a character that always knows who's responsible for her
> problems (clue - not her!), try Bitten by Kelley Armstrong.

I've read three of those -- Bitten, Dime Store Magic, and Stolen. They
weren't bad, but weren't great either.

Wayne

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