It's hard to take some reader reviews seriously...

[lagilman]

Normally I am as easily crushed by a negative reader review as any delicate authorial hothouse flower. But when someone's complaint seems to be "OMG this book is full of made-up magical terms!" this particular flower tend to let her eyes skim over the rest of the text.

Because, um, yeah? And y'know what? Not only are the magical terms made up (or, in some cases, stolen from Edison, Tesla and Franklin?) but SO IS THE MAGIC! And also the characters. And a lot of the place names. And oh yeah, the plot...

Come on, folk. If you don't like the worldbuilding, hey, fine. If the story bored you to tears, or you didn't think something was believable, okay. If you thought one of my characters was a prat and didn't want to waste any more time with them, fair call. But dissing me because I made up magical terms that you didn't like? GMAFB* and go read the newspaper.

Sheesh.




*Give Me a Fkcuing Break.

Comments

It's hard to take some reader reviews seriously...

[egilligan.livejournal.com]

Uh ... Did the "reviewer" know she was reading genre fiction? Does she know the meaning of "genre?" Tell me this ditz was just one of those general reader reviews that can be found all over the internet making this excrable lack of understanding even somewhat excusable!

Lace aka ElizaBeth Gilligan

PS ... LJ is great, but I feel compelled to repeat some of the descriptive terms just assigned to the misguided (at best) reviewer when dealing with the spellchecker. I mean, I only wanted to verify the spelling of a single word, but this is totally screwed up!