While I was driving back to my flat this night (it takes me over an hour and I can think peacefully while I'm doing so) I suddenly remembered a book I've read years ago. It wasn't written in English. Haven't thought about it ages ago. When I read it then, it upset me terribly. So much that I couldn't sleep all night after I finished it, even started reading another one just to keep myself from screaming and kicking.
I was utterly disappointed by the end. The guy I liked so much turned out to be, a) a sucker (or so I thought) and b) the bad guy all along. The heroine ended up being all independent and cool, didn't need the guy a bit. Oh! Don't think it was a romance book! It was serious fantasy. That's probably why the romance got to understated. Thinking about it now, it was a good thing that it happened that way, but hey, I was 14 and wanted romance all the way! hehehe
So, now I suddenly thought about this book and I thought, HEY, actually this is wickedly cool! An independent woman, kicking the guy's butt and the guy's the baddy all along. Magic, dragons, suspense and crap. Cool! Gotta check it out! So I looked for it, asked people, surfed the net... no chance. Nobody knows the dude nor the book. :-( This frustrates me. As much as I love the English speaking culture, I do take a cultural pride in the language I was raised in. And to see at many examples each day that the USA and UK widely ignores foreign authors (among other things), really frustrates me... *sighs*
I really wanted to discuss the book with someone, but apparently nobody knows it or wants to know ... *sad sigh* Aw well...
I was utterly disappointed by the end. The guy I liked so much turned out to be, a) a sucker (or so I thought) and b) the bad guy all along. The heroine ended up being all independent and cool, didn't need the guy a bit. Oh! Don't think it was a romance book! It was serious fantasy. That's probably why the romance got to understated. Thinking about it now, it was a good thing that it happened that way, but hey, I was 14 and wanted romance all the way! hehehe
So, now I suddenly thought about this book and I thought, HEY, actually this is wickedly cool! An independent woman, kicking the guy's butt and the guy's the baddy all along. Magic, dragons, suspense and crap. Cool! Gotta check it out! So I looked for it, asked people, surfed the net... no chance. Nobody knows the dude nor the book. :-( This frustrates me. As much as I love the English speaking culture, I do take a cultural pride in the language I was raised in. And to see at many examples each day that the USA and UK widely ignores foreign authors (among other things), really frustrates me... *sighs*
I really wanted to discuss the book with someone, but apparently nobody knows it or wants to know ... *sad sigh* Aw well...