Oh, please
May. 30th, 2007 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helblondeI took last night to just relax and read. Yay!
I managed to read, but David Weber managed to tick me off a bit with one plot point. (Well, with more than one thing, mostly because he seems to have written the past few books without an editor and he desperately needs one to cut most of his garbage.)
The heroine gets preganat and doesn't figure it out. Not even a suspicion. I have see this too many times and I just don't buy it. No, nay, never. Any woman that I have met who has had sex and knows anything about biology (which this character does), will have the "what if?" thought periodically, combined with a reaction that is somewhere between horified and ecstatic. Especially if she is showing symptoms.
Another peeve: why do all pregnant women in books seem to have morning sickness. This is way above the statistical norm. I mean really. Do authors have to torment their characters because they don't know any other way to show that a woman is pregnant? Read a biology book, people. And add morning sickness to having had sex, and why is she surprised she's pregnant? The character isn't stupid, right? She may not want to be pregnant, but she should be able to figure it out.
I don't buy the scenario and I've seen it often enough that I have gotten really tired of it.
Bad author, bad, bad, bad.
I managed to read, but David Weber managed to tick me off a bit with one plot point. (Well, with more than one thing, mostly because he seems to have written the past few books without an editor and he desperately needs one to cut most of his garbage.)
The heroine gets preganat and doesn't figure it out. Not even a suspicion. I have see this too many times and I just don't buy it. No, nay, never. Any woman that I have met who has had sex and knows anything about biology (which this character does), will have the "what if?" thought periodically, combined with a reaction that is somewhere between horified and ecstatic. Especially if she is showing symptoms.
Another peeve: why do all pregnant women in books seem to have morning sickness. This is way above the statistical norm. I mean really. Do authors have to torment their characters because they don't know any other way to show that a woman is pregnant? Read a biology book, people. And add morning sickness to having had sex, and why is she surprised she's pregnant? The character isn't stupid, right? She may not want to be pregnant, but she should be able to figure it out.
I don't buy the scenario and I've seen it often enough that I have gotten really tired of it.
Bad author, bad, bad, bad.
