When I first saw this series announced, I pretty much immediately dismissed it as the authors slumming with a stab at generic paranormal romance.
Now having read it on whim I see I was right about that (at least for the the first 3-4 books). What I was not expecting however was that it’s also Kate Daniels fanfiction. Who does that? What kind of author makes fanfiction of their own successful work and then tries to pass it off as a new work that required ‘belief’ to get it off the ground? Your editor “believed in the story”? No shit they did; you already wrote it years ago!
The funniest thing about this is that’s not even the full extent of the reuse. It also splices in the setting from Kinsmen… another of the authors’ series, albeit an apparently less successful one. The audacity of the entire project is just staggering.
“The audacity of the entire project is just staggering.” As Tom Wolfe observed some time ago, Big Art killed real art. Frank Zappa and Joni Mitchell, among others, observed the same thing in the music industry. However, from what you’ve said, this project seems to have transcended simple greed and laziness and descended into a kind of in-your-face zombie auto-necrophilia. Another example of Real Life giving The Onion a run for its money. Such things used to bum me out. Now I just parrot my late graduate school advisor and say, “God is testing me.”. Look for the “Beauty of… Read more »