The Hollows, Book #3 "Every Which Way but Dead"

[fembuck]

OMG, this book is taking me forever to get through.  It's going so slowly for me.  This is why I can't handle Primetime dramas.  I don't give a shit about the minutia of people's lives.  SOLVE A CRIME OR SOMETHING!  BLOW SOME SHIT UP!  STUPIDLY SNEAK IN SOMEWHERE!  Good God, I miss the idiotic breaking and entering.  TURN INTO A MINK AGAIN!

Alas, poor Plot! Remember it, Kim? It was thing of
of infinite imagination, of most excellent intrigues: it hath
borne me on many different adventures; and now, how
bored I am without it! my gorge rims at the lack of it.
Once there was action and I consumed it
oft. Where be your techniques of creating suspense now? your
pacing? your descriptions of long onyx hair instead of chest hair?
your flashes of lesbian desire, that were wont to set Ivy's couch on a roar?

Please F-list,  tell me that this was like an off year for Kim, and the next book isn't this tedious.  She's seriously killing my buzz with this shit.  It's ... it's ... believe me when I say that I DON'T want to say this ... but ... it's starting to feel like reading Twilight!  I'm just like, "Shut the fuck up Bella Rachel!" every couple of pages.  Please, please tell me the next book is better.  Please tell me that more than 2 out of every 100 pages in the next book is dedicated to plot.  Please, please tell me.  I want to finish the third book, but I need some encouragement if I'm going to shirk doing actual work to read this.

P.S.  I'm guessing that Nick does something seriously douchey at the end of this book, because every seems to hate him, but about 3/5ths of the way through Book Three he doesn't seem that bad.  Frankly, I would've left town for a while with Rachel tapping ley lines like it was her bachlorette party all the fucking time ... heating up her coffee and shit.  Daaaaamn. 

I'm actually kind of sad Nick'll turn out to be a huge asshole because so far I like him better than Kisten (fuck, what a stupid ass name ... apologies if there are any Kisten's on my f-list, I'm sure the name has a wonderful history that I'm just igorant of.)

Comments

[jaina47.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, the next one up is Fistful of Charms. You don't want to miss that one. And actually, this one sets some stuff up for Outlaw Demon Wails. So...

[bldy-destini.livejournal.com]

The next one is really good...keep going...it gets better.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

I am reassured. I will persevere!

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed.
Seriously, you don't want to miss TITV scene in a Fistful of Charms...It's like the book equivalent of...finding the holy grail or something ~sighs~

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

It's like the book equivalent of...finding the holy grail or something ~sighs~

*curses book three again ... rushes to finish it*

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

Okay, thanks for the reassurance. I think I was being a pansy yesterday, but I really just needed to be patted on the head and told that it will get better ;) *slogs through the rest of Every Which Way but Fail Dead.

[ic1pher.livejournal.com]

Well if you hate Kisten... Book 5 is a book for you, and also book 4 is my favourite when it comes to Ivy/Rachel.

But I'm not going to lie. Kim seems to try very hard to set up these hetero pairings for Rachel and they all seem to go wrong somehow. She doesn't even seemingly have to try and she writes great girl on girl.

I'm kinda pessimistic with the whole Ivy/Rachel thing, but I'm addicted so I don't have a choice but see it through, never mind the pain. Fan fiction is my salve for that.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

Well if you hate Kisten... Book 5 is a book for you

lol, I don't hate him, I don't love him but it can be alright. Sometimes. When he's not involved in 15 page sex scenes, lol. Still, I won't cry when he's gone ... maybe a sniffle.

also book 4 is my favourite when it comes to Ivy/Rachel.

Sweet!

Kim seems to try very hard to set up these hetero pairings for Rachel and they all seem to go wrong somehow. She doesn't even seemingly have to try and she writes great girl on girl.

lol! It's like, just go with the flow, gurl. Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)

Fan fiction is my salve for that.

Word. Sweet, sweet fanfic. It solves almost all ills.

No worries, but...

[(Anonymous)]

You're at the lowest point in the story, no worries. It gets better from there, but I also found it very frustrating. A bit like a sneeze that just won't come out (of the closet).

Oh, and about the name Kisten, it's supposed to be a sort of stone coffin containing money (?), or so KH claims on her site. I swear, I'm not making this up. Coming from the woman who named a vampire Ivy -> I.V. (again, she admitted it), nothing surprises me anymore. She has those very kitsch moments, it seems...

Re: No worries, but...

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

You're at the lowest point in the story, no worries. It gets better from there

Good to know!

A bit like a sneeze that just won't come out (of the closet).

Love = this comment!

Oh, and about the name Kisten, it's supposed to be a sort of stone coffin containing money (?), or so KH claims on her site.

Ugh. That doesn't make it okay, Kim. *wags finger in her general direction*


Coming from the woman who named a vampire Ivy -> I.V. (again, she admitted it)

God, I'm so slow, I didn't even pick up on that. At least, Ivy is a real name. Kisten is just awkward. It's very Harlequin romance novel (which is not a good thing).

[wishing-wounds.livejournal.com]

Books four and five are so much better, seriously.

I read through Fistful of Charms in one sitting.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

*phew* Thank you for the reassurance. It's actually given me the drive I need to just down the rest of Book 3 in one sitting so I can get onto the good stuff.

[lostingeekdom.livejournal.com]

Ah, I was waiting for your post. You know how I felt after Book 3. So by the time I started on A Fistful Of Charms, it was just so I could slog through the rest. I finished it just now. It's a complete freaking turn around and surprised me so much, in a very, very good way. Ravy finally became believable for me. Rachel is still stupid in so many ways, but she's beginning to acknowledge that. Though dang, she takes her own sweet time to get out of denial land that she likes atleast on particularly badass girl vamp in all her feminine glory. I don't know if the next two books are going to be as good for the Rachel/Ivy relationship. I'll have to wait and find out. Maybe she'll wisen up for the new book coming out in February.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

It's a complete freaking turn around and surprised me so much, in a very, very good way. Ravy finally became believable for me

THANK GOD! Book Three has been kind of killing Ravy for me. It really highlights the dysfunctionalness of Ravy without having any of the 'aw' moments that make the dysfunctionalness seem worth it. Light at the end of the tunnel, I'm a coming baby!

Rachel is still stupid in so many ways, but she's beginning to acknowledge that.

Rachel being dumb is kind of a given. I'm just glad that she won't be annoying and dumb anymore.

Maybe she'll wisen up for the new book coming out in February.

*crosses fingers*

[hypno-ninja.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Nick gets real douchey real fast.

Three is definitely the weakest of the books so far, it just kind of wallows in itself (I hardly even remember what happens in it, actually I don't remember at all).

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Nick gets real douchey real fast.

Does it happen in book three or four? I'm almost finished three now, and I haven't really seen the douchiness. I'm looking forward to it though. Douchey people make me laugh (as long as I don't have to associate with them).

it just kind of wallows in itself

OMG! This is the perfect description of book three. Everything just goes on, and on, and on, sucking forever. It's soul crushing.

[hypno-ninja.livejournal.com]

Well technically he's been a douche all along but you don't find out till book 4. Rachel actually starts sounding like the reasonable one for awhile.

[madndizzee.livejournal.com]

lol yes, book 3 is barely a blip in my memory banks. but you definitely wanna read book 4! there's this Ravy scene that eclipses all the hetero sex scenes by a mile and no shedding of clothing was involved. Nick gets a good slamming in book 4; i'm not ashamed to say i enjoyed it. :P Kisten's not that bad, if only because he rouses Ivy's "her blood is mine! she's mine!" instincts lol. blonde men don't do a thing for me though, so meh. i'm almost done with book 5. i'm eager to read the ending 'cause it will shed so much light on the spoilers in some fanfics.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

book 3 is barely a blip in my memory banks.

I can't wait until it is a distant memory for me as well. I want to remember the introduction of Skimmer and Erica, and that's it. The only enjoyable part of the book so far *sigh*

there's this Ravy scene that eclipses all the hetero sex scenes by a mile and no shedding of clothing was involved.

*expectations ... building ... cannot ... wait!*

Kisten's not that bad, if only because he rouses Ivy's "her blood is mine! she's mine!" instincts lol.

Ivy's "She's mine, I will kill you twice" reactions are priceless and hawt. Or at least it should be hawt, but because the friendship seems so one-sided right now, it's coming off as kind of sad and pathetic. And Ivy should NOT be sad and pathetic. Tortured and brooding, yes. Sad and pathetic, no.

blonde men don't do a thing for me though

LOL! Me either generally. I think I like Nick better right now because he's a brunette (and doesn't speak in a fake British accent)

[sukiluv76.livejournal.com]

Not to worry friend :)book 4 is solid gold. It left me wanting more, then I got it in book 5. Still left me with hypothetical blue balls though lol its been over a year since ive read them all so I can't remember everything from book 5 but I'm fairly certain that the best stuff is in that one. Keep on trucking if you can manage, the pay off is fantastic :)

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

book 4 is solid gold.

Good to know!

Still left me with hypothetical blue balls

Oooh, I can't wait. I don't mind being teased as long as its the good kind!

Keep on trucking if you can manage, the pay off is fantastic

I shall overcome! Book 4 here I come!

[ralphy137.livejournal.com]

Oh they DEFINATELY get better! Oh and btw you write the best fics!!!! Love them.