I know of one author (who I will not name) who actually killed off the husband of one of the primary characters in her series… and never mentioned him again!<\/p>\n
Actually, I have to admit that the fact that the killed-off husband wasn’t mentioned even one time in the next mystery of the series was enough to turn me off of that particular author forever! <\/b>I have never read another one of her mysteries, so maybe the deceased husband is mentioned in one of the following books in her series<\/b>. But ignoring one of the secondary character’s death in the following novel of the series was enough for me to essentially "ignore" that particular author!<\/p>\n
I just don’t like it when authors take "the easy road" on pesky details. Sometimes, I wonder what the editors are doing! Don’t they actually read the mysteries and make notes like "What happened to Mrs. Primary Character’s husband? Why don’t you mention his death? Why don’t you mention that he was the killer in the previous book? Why is Mrs. Primary Character still feared as a beacon of the town when her husband turned out to have killed several people? Do you even remember that Mrs. Primary Character had a husband?"<\/p>\n
Yes, those are just some of the questions that I would have annotated in the margin of the original transcript to the following novel in the series. And, yes, (or should I say no?!)…. I am not an editor! I just don’t like inconsistencies…<\/p>\n
How about you? Are you able to overlook author’s forgetting about a character? Or just changing a character mid-series? Maybe I’m too harsh of a reader… Or maybe it brings out the "teacher-days" in me… red pen in hand… trying to note the positive…. along with the sloppy\/just-plain-wrong!<\/p>\n
PS>>>>>>> I guess I am really showing my age when I say "the margin of the original transcript" instead of saying "highlighting and adding a comment in the downloaded file" that authors probably submit these days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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