Title: Now I get it.
Product review: Finally, it clicks: the reason I liked Coulter's historicals but couldn't plow through even half of the last two contemporary suspense novels. (And I do mean the last.)First and foremost, it's the stilted dialogue. Nobody talks like this, people; not in this millenium and not in the previous half-century, unless we count "See Dick run. Run, Dick. Run." In period novels, it's easier to suspend disbelief. But when the setting is here and now, the same style comes across as bad writing.I wanted to like these books; I swear I did. Coulter's historicals filled many a rainy afternoon with what I thought was high-camp fun - a satirical take on the genre. Now I see that what I thought was satirical was not. The joke was on me.BTW, when you have to describe a character as witty, she probably isn't.
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