well behaved women

I loved the new Mercy Thompson book, but I can't count the number of times I wanted to roll my eyes like a distressed horse at Patricia Briggs' editor.

Typos shouldn't be in published work! I'm not supposed to have to grit my teeth through this like a decent-but-poorly-edited fanfic! Isn't this the stuff you're supposed to catch? If I had less respect for Patricia Briggs and the normal quality of her work, I wouldn't be so bitchy exasperated, but really.

There were flaws in the books--places where I didn't feel the suspense/danger/need came through strong enough before a drastic action. An author is often too close to their work to catch this stuff. They feel what's going on for the characters, they know the urgency, they sometimes forget they have to elaborate for their readers. Once it came into its stride, later through the book, I had no such problems, but the pace of the earlier part of the book felt choppy.

Still loved it, though.

MATH TEST NOW.

EDIT: to amend my flounce-ish remarks with a little explanation.

math test went poorly

off to commit harakiri