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A review by junkie_forthe_written_word
Carolina Moon by Nora Roberts
1.0
12/11/12 I would just like to make a small note for authors writing about the south.
On Sweet Iced Tea. <-- This is the natural state of tea below Virginia. Nobody says, "Would you care for an iced tea?" Because it's just tea, it's understood to be sweet and iced. Nobody says, "Hey let's go out for an iced tea!" Because you have it right there in your house and if you don't, it's because you've run out and you will have more in 10 minutes. When you go to a restaurant, no one orders iced tea, they order TEA and it comes to the table sweet and with ice.
I understand this is confusing because the rest of the world has a different idea of tea. The first time I traveled outside of the south I was at a restaurant and I ordered tea and they brought me a coffee cup full of hot water and a tea bag and some sweet n low, and I was all:
But please understand, here, if you want that kind of tea you're going to have to say, "Yes, I'd like a coffee cup full of hot water and a tea bag with some sugar on the side." BECAUSE THE NATURAL STATE OF TEA IS SWEET AND ICED, you don't have to specify.
12/12/12
This book was, I guess, supposed to be a murder mystery and a romance. It failed at both.
The best part of this book, for me, was that it was set in the Pee Dee area of SC and mentioned many towns I'm familiar with, even Dillon. There my thrills ended.
The romance, or lackthereof, was... mmm... unromantic. I've had more sparks fly with inanimate objects than these two characters had with each other.
The murder mystery, yeah, about that. There are rules when writing a murder mystery. You have to give clues and then follow through with them. You can't just give no clues, or give misleading clues, and then BAM on the last 3 pages reveal a murderer who was under absolutely no suspicion and no clues are given that he's a skeezehead. I mean really that's not giving your reader even the slightest chance to figure the crap out, it's cheating.
Also a psychic, really?
On Sweet Iced Tea. <-- This is the natural state of tea below Virginia. Nobody says, "Would you care for an iced tea?" Because it's just tea, it's understood to be sweet and iced. Nobody says, "Hey let's go out for an iced tea!" Because you have it right there in your house and if you don't, it's because you've run out and you will have more in 10 minutes. When you go to a restaurant, no one orders iced tea, they order TEA and it comes to the table sweet and with ice.
I understand this is confusing because the rest of the world has a different idea of tea. The first time I traveled outside of the south I was at a restaurant and I ordered tea and they brought me a coffee cup full of hot water and a tea bag and some sweet n low, and I was all:
But please understand, here, if you want that kind of tea you're going to have to say, "Yes, I'd like a coffee cup full of hot water and a tea bag with some sugar on the side." BECAUSE THE NATURAL STATE OF TEA IS SWEET AND ICED, you don't have to specify.
12/12/12
This book was, I guess, supposed to be a murder mystery and a romance. It failed at both.
The best part of this book, for me, was that it was set in the Pee Dee area of SC and mentioned many towns I'm familiar with, even Dillon. There my thrills ended.
The romance, or lackthereof, was... mmm... unromantic. I've had more sparks fly with inanimate objects than these two characters had with each other.
The murder mystery, yeah, about that. There are rules when writing a murder mystery. You have to give clues and then follow through with them. You can't just give no clues, or give misleading clues, and then BAM on the last 3 pages reveal a murderer who was under absolutely no suspicion and no clues are given that he's a skeezehead. I mean really that's not giving your reader even the slightest chance to figure the crap out, it's cheating.
Also a psychic, really?