Review: I guess I'm too picky...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2013
I'm quite sure this review, like my preview of her book will get deleted, but that's perfectly fine because I'm a bit harsh in my review.When I read a book, especially a sci-fi/fantasy, I always feel that there's an implied contract between author and reader in that the author asks the reader to suspend their belief to enter the author's world.  The reader tacitly agrees with this contract in the assumption that the world building and/or characters would be believable and that the reader can become a sort of voyager in the characters lives.For the record, I do not think Joyee Flynn is a horribly bad author (I've read two of her books, the 2nd one in the hope that I was wrong about the 1st book I read).  My main problem with her book(s) is that her characters are these wildly unrealistic creatures with very little 'human' reactions that I can have a point of reference.FIRST...Her book 'Fur and Flightless' (I think it was called), as an African-American, I took GREAT exception to the demeaning and racially derogatory term of the main character having a 'ghetto booty'.  Ms. Flynn could have used any number of phrases to describe the character's behind without descending to racially demeaning phrases.Let's not forget how the 'romantic lead' verbally and emotionally denies (and somewhat abuses) his partner...yet, after what is described as some great sex, all is forgiven and it's cuddles forever.  Really?  Really?SECOND...Two Wiggles and Some Fur.  The book starts off initially as promising and I really commend Ms. Flynn on that part...then it pretty much descend into basically porn where sex is the be-all and cure-all for whatever trauma that you've gone through.Though the trauma happened offscreen, however, I would THINK if someone had been subjected to repeated instances of said trauma for years, I don't know, maybe they might have some problems?  But in Ms. Flynn's Unmated at Midnight, pfff, all that is swept away once our dear sweet boys gets a look at the hunka-hunka of burning love romantic lead.Interestingly enough, when something similar happens to the romantic lead, Ms. Flynn has him acting like some frail, little damsel which is the reaction I imagine the other two characters would have displayed (but didn't).To me, the Wiggles and the Fur's reactions were two extreme...the Wiggles didn't react at all while the Fur basically wanted to curl up and die.I just wish Ms. Flynn took the time to invest more 'human-like' reactions in her characters instead of these wildly exaggerated caricatures.I honestly believe if she invested such time, her books would fly off the shelves far quicker because now, readers have characters they can become emotionally invested in.