Luffy Sempai's Reviews > A Good Yarn

A Good Yarn is a tired and cliched book about feelings. The fact that many people want their characters to do well in poorly written books indicates that a mint can be made on anything that reassures rather than reveals. Debbie Macomber provides easy answers rather than answering the difficult questions her characters ask throughout the book.

People who cannot survive the genre transfusion that occurs often when middle aged readers dive into YA literature, turn to books like this. Comforting, familiar, repetitive, and ultimately redundant, A Good Yarn is a lazy attempt at writing. The characters here seem to impress upon readers that they will have a HEA. Regardless of the life they are leading.

The type of glandular love that passes for something more divine shows how sanitised and embracing the Romance genre has become. Romance is the only genre whose young writers, fresh out of the workshop of Creative Writing class, never innovate. It's easy money for those who are very visible or have a long career at this type of shilling. I myself have recently been wanting a book about Christmas and love. Oy Vey.