You know, ordinarily I would be all for this. I'd argue for Tyra's chance to take a shot at something new, to try out a different field and maybe find a new level of success. After all, back in the early 90s, who would've put money down on Will "Fresh Prince" Smith and "Marky" Mark Wahlberg being bankable box-office titans? I would've said that, while becoming "the next J.R.R. Tolkein" was a massive stretch, there was no saying that she couldn't put out something of quality.
But reading that synposis made the part of my brain that would've presented that argument slam itself against the inside of my skull until it could no longer feel the pain. It's terrible, pure and simple- self-congratulatory tripe with Mary Sue-ism up the extremely underfed wazoo. It could turn out to be a literary axe-blow to the head of the writing world compared to the Twilight series' comparatively loving baseball-bat skull massage.
What I'll do is this. I'll put Tyra's new book on one end of a table, and Yahtzee's new book on the other. Then I will leave the room for five minutes. When I come back, I expect Modelland (pronounced "Model Land") to be in shreds, and Mogworld (pronounced "vastly superior") to be exuding an unspeakable dark aura of malice.
But reading that synposis made the part of my brain that would've presented that argument slam itself against the inside of my skull until it could no longer feel the pain. It's terrible, pure and simple- self-congratulatory tripe with Mary Sue-ism up the extremely underfed wazoo. It could turn out to be a literary axe-blow to the head of the writing world compared to the Twilight series' comparatively loving baseball-bat skull massage.
What I'll do is this. I'll put Tyra's new book on one end of a table, and Yahtzee's new book on the other. Then I will leave the room for five minutes. When I come back, I expect Modelland (pronounced "Model Land") to be in shreds, and Mogworld (pronounced "vastly superior") to be exuding an unspeakable dark aura of malice.
