Is it wrong that I feel almost tempted to read the book just because of the ghost wife with strange priorities?
if you pick a rom-com at random and show it to me, I'm overwhelmingly more likely to hate it than not.
Yes, that's true - you have a huge tolerance for the faults of mid-20th C writers, but you aren't keen on letting Heyer have even one slip (or far worse, admittedly in Grand Sophy!), in a way that seems unlike your usual kind reading practices. Maybe you have a perfect rom com you need to write to get it out of your system? Although it may not help with liking everyone else's wrong ones. On the other hand, there are a lot of supposed RomComs that have very strange priorities and are neither romantic nor funny, and you should at least be one or the other if you can't manage both.*
* pot and kettles, yes. I am also very pernickity about rom coms! It has to be exactly right and, dammit, it ought to at least make me smile at regular intervals and not turn soppy the moment someone says I love you! (We shall both have to write it out of our system at some point, except you won't like mine, because they will inevitably owe a large debt to Heyer, and I won't like yours, because pernickity-ness. probably. Actually, it's hard to imagine disliking a romcom written by you.)
Anyway, it's possible I'm also projecting, so i will just go lay myself to rest for a bit and come back later.
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Date: 2017-06-07 01:52 pm (UTC)if you pick a rom-com at random and show it to me, I'm overwhelmingly more likely to hate it than not.
Yes, that's true - you have a huge tolerance for the faults of mid-20th C writers, but you aren't keen on letting Heyer have even one slip (or far worse, admittedly in Grand Sophy!), in a way that seems unlike your usual kind reading practices. Maybe you have a perfect rom com you need to write to get it out of your system? Although it may not help with liking everyone else's wrong ones. On the other hand, there are a lot of supposed RomComs that have very strange priorities and are neither romantic nor funny, and you should at least be one or the other if you can't manage both.*
* pot and kettles, yes. I am also very pernickity about rom coms! It has to be exactly right and, dammit, it ought to at least make me smile at regular intervals and not turn soppy the moment someone says I love you! (We shall both have to write it out of our system at some point, except you won't like mine, because they will inevitably owe a large debt to Heyer, and I won't like yours, because pernickity-ness. probably. Actually, it's hard to imagine disliking a romcom written by you.)
Anyway, it's possible I'm also projecting, so i will just go lay myself to rest for a bit and come back later.