Right?
I really wish I could wipe the entire experience from my mind, frankly.
Without giving away the author (I'm only partly sure about it anyway) or the title (forget it, I suck at remembering titles!) the basic plot over a 2 book arc involved the woman, falling in love with the hero, leaving Ireland during the late 1800s for America. Happily Every After in book one, sweet! Grabbed book 2 and after all this time (it's been years!) I can't remember if I grabbed it without reading the blurb or I did so assuming the second book was about the hero's best friend and his romance.
Oh, it was alright! Hero from book 1 died in the first page! Yet somehow, for reasons I have forever regretted, I continued reading. To be fair, there was no Internet then, not like now, and no place to research this book before I spent money on it.
Sure, book 1 had a HEA but the author completely ruined it with book 2 and killing off the hero to have the heroine marry the BF and live Happily Ever After with him. NOT the story I signed up to read!
Have you ever been tricked like that? Read a book with what you thought was going to be a happy ending only to discover it wasn't?
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I have to admit, I haven't had this happen with a book, but I have gone into movies where I was expecting one thing and got something completely different. Not a great feeling.
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I don't think this has ever happened to me. Most books make it pretty clear if they're going to have a happy ending, so I'm rarely surprised with something terrible- like all the characters dying at the end :/
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Sometimes the covers are deceiving. I should have looked further.
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I've been tricked by covers before and blurbs. One notable instant was a one star review I wrote on it (and I will not deign to name it and give it publicity). But basically, it was supposed to be a happy m/m romance (and the blurb made it sound like it'd be a happy m/m/m romance! Even better!) And then a sister entered the picture, threw everything off and stole one of the men. And then the other two got a kind of HFN ending. WTF?! That is not what I paid for or wanted to read. I was very upset and now refuse to read any of that author's work ever again.
ReplyDeleteThe other time I was tricked, I loved the blurb and wanted to read it, but I didn't see the note that it was a Bittersweet Romance. So, no HEA for me, though that one was my fault for not paying closer attention.
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