Do you know why I love her so much?
Because, unlike so many mainstream authors who pump out book after book, I can actually see the growth in her writing.
Her older stuff is decent. More romance than her newer stuff. But her writing is just okay - a lot of head-hopping and such in her narrative, and the stories were interesting, but not gripping. Different, but not...amazing. Her prose was always though, IMO, beautifully written.
Her new stuff though - she goes out on the limb and writes about hardcore, real issues! School shootings, missing children, Aspergar's Disease. She does the research. Her characters are more developed, more real. She gets inside their heads and makes us see things from a different point of view.
I was telling this to my SO last night, and though he joins in the conversation and nods his understanding and doesn't make me feel silly in the least, he is not only not a writer, but he's not really a reader either (unless you include news articles, and the Playboy advice column lol), I wanted to share this with other readers/writers and see what you guys thought.
Know of any other author who you've seen grow through the years rather than fall into a pattern like so many seem to do?
Because, unlike so many mainstream authors who pump out book after book, I can actually see the growth in her writing.
Her older stuff is decent. More romance than her newer stuff. But her writing is just okay - a lot of head-hopping and such in her narrative, and the stories were interesting, but not gripping. Different, but not...amazing. Her prose was always though, IMO, beautifully written.
Her new stuff though - she goes out on the limb and writes about hardcore, real issues! School shootings, missing children, Aspergar's Disease. She does the research. Her characters are more developed, more real. She gets inside their heads and makes us see things from a different point of view.
I was telling this to my SO last night, and though he joins in the conversation and nods his understanding and doesn't make me feel silly in the least, he is not only not a writer, but he's not really a reader either (unless you include news articles, and the Playboy advice column lol), I wanted to share this with other readers/writers and see what you guys thought.
Know of any other author who you've seen grow through the years rather than fall into a pattern like so many seem to do?
