This is the dark side of blurbs: this is why authors sometimes have to say "no," even if they like another author's work. Because when I put my name on the cover of a book, I am saying "I like this, and if you like the things I like, you will like it, too." But what happens when you don't? Suddenly everything else I like is questionable. What if Diet Dr Pepper, Monster High dolls, and carnage are all waiting to betray you, too? Where is the line?

This is why ignore blurbs, and why I usually (but don't always) ignore blogs of favorite authors. Because the reverse is true: when I love something, but a favorite author doesn't, it does really weird things to skew my perceptive of what I love. I first worry that something is wrong with me for loving it in the first place, but then, inevitably, I take into account the author's nitpicks and when I read that author's work again, well, my brain isn't in such a favorable place. :)

Fortunately, that has not happened here with YOU in your blog. :) But it's happened at a few others. Once, I wanted to tell the author to put her money where her mouth was, and actually write the kind of story she'd wished some movie had been. I didn't, but I wanted to. :-/