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A review by expendablemudge
Love and Payne by Charlie Cochet
4.0
Real Rating: 3.75* of five
Five w-bombs. More later.
***LATER***
Six too many w-bombs. Really annoying.
Good tale of Austen's final descent into loving couplehood, and sets up a neat new dynamic for him vis-a-vis THIRDS daddies Sloane and Dex.
Far too little attention paid to the political subplot, so the ending was a whirlwind of telling not showing so that the set piece would work. Like every other book in the series, it's compulsively readable, and its universe (while exceedingly improbable) is the real draw. All of these books share a dynamic, one that's really telling and also really disheartening: Humans only forget old hates when new ones take their place.
At a guess, Author Cochet is a bitter romantic, a sadder-and-wiser love junkie with a passel of stories left to tell because the damn things won't be quiet. I think THIRDS, if one can shelve the analytical eyebrow-quirking inner Bill Nye criticizing the science, will appeal to veterans of the love wars. Perhaps more than the rookies.
Read on, follow Author Cochet's lead.
Five w-bombs. More later.
***LATER***
Six too many w-bombs. Really annoying.
Good tale of Austen's final descent into loving couplehood, and sets up a neat new dynamic for him vis-a-vis THIRDS daddies Sloane and Dex.
Far too little attention paid to the political subplot, so the ending was a whirlwind of telling not showing so that the set piece would work. Like every other book in the series, it's compulsively readable, and its universe (while exceedingly improbable) is the real draw. All of these books share a dynamic, one that's really telling and also really disheartening: Humans only forget old hates when new ones take their place.
At a guess, Author Cochet is a bitter romantic, a sadder-and-wiser love junkie with a passel of stories left to tell because the damn things won't be quiet. I think THIRDS, if one can shelve the analytical eyebrow-quirking inner Bill Nye criticizing the science, will appeal to veterans of the love wars. Perhaps more than the rookies.
Read on, follow Author Cochet's lead.