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[rachelmanija]

Since I enjoyed Patricia Gaffney's Wild at Heart so much, I BookMooched her Fortune's Lady (They were natural enemies - traitor's daughter and zealous patriot - yet the moment he saw Cassandra Merlin at her father's graveside, Riordan knew he would never be free of her. She was the key to stopping a heinous plot against the king's life, yet he sensed she had her own secret reasons for aiding his cause.

But when it arrived, I was... what's the word for "so appalled I burst out laughing?" ... by the back cover blurb:

"Like moonspun magic... One of the best historical romances I have read in a decade!"
-CASSIE EDWARDS, Bestselling Author of THE SAVAGE SERIES

Cassie Edwards, in addition to writing books about "savage" Indians, which is an offense all my itself, turned out to not even be writing her own "savages": she was plagiarizing large chunks of prose from, I kid you not, both another novel and a scholarly article about blackfooted ferrets.

Then I opened the book. This was written in giant letters on the inside front cover:

HELP

I'M KIDNAPPED

I fear that actually reading the book may be a let-down.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I assumed it was a joke, but I'll email just in case.

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

Wait! won't that just alert the book trader that the prisoner in the basement is leaving frustratingly uninformative SOS notes in old mass market paperbacks that may or may not be mailed off one day?

Also: I feel so bad for all the authors with Cassie Edwards Blurbs on their covers! Would you be MORTIFIED!

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm reasonably sure that anyone careful enough to write in big block letters would do more useful things like... put a name in.

[dhobikikutti]

Oh fine, mock me. See what happens when the Man really does get you and the Aliens actually land and force you to have sex with your mortal enemy become our evil overlords.

[dhobikikutti]

In hindsight, perhaps someone who loved a book well but none too wisely wrote it in case it was 'permanently borrowed'?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

And indeed, it WAS!

I assumed that there was a lot of kidnapping in the book.