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#FF Feature & Follow Friday #13

11/9/2012

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Feature & Follow is a weekly meme hosted by, Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. Every Friday, each host will have their own Feature Blog which allows them to show off more new blogs! It is a fun way to not only gain new followers but to meet and make new blogger friends!  

Feel free to follow Shelf Addiction via NetworkedBlogs, Linky or Email subscription. If you are new to Shelf Addiction, please leave a comment below with how you're following and I will make sure to visit & follow your blog back. :-) ♥


Question: Do you mind books with similar ideas to other books? Similar concepts, backgrounds, retellings or pulled-to-publish fanfic?

Answer: This is a split answer. I do in fact mind books with similar stories when it seems like I'm reading the same book again, but with slight differences.  I hate feeling like a book is a carbon copy with different character names.  I enjoy when authors within the same genre can stretch their minds and keep coming up with new and exciting things to write about.  

With that said, I don't mind books with similar general themes. For example in Urban Fantasy or Paranormal Romance the base of the stories seem to have a similar formula and that's okay with me.

I don't mind retellings because sometimes it can be fun to read a different take on a traditional story. For example, the new books that have a different spin on classic fairy tales, like Cinderella, Snow White, etc. 

I also like fan-fiction.  Have you ever read a book or watched a TV show and when it was over you wanted more? Well, hello fan-fiction. I've read a little bit here and there and I think it's fun to read. 

What's your take on this subject?
Copycats = Bad 
Example: 50 Shades of Grey and the one too many similar story lines & parodies...
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Similar General Themes = Good
Example: J.R. Ward's series & Lara Adrian's series. Similar themes, but the stories and characters are very different.
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Retellings = Good
Example: Traditional Cinderella and the new futuristic retelling-ish Cinder.
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5 Comments
Jessica
11/9/2012 12:48:14 am

I love retellings too! But you make a good point that it seems like everyone is trying to copy Fifty Shades of Gray now...which was a fanfic of Twilight...so basically everyone is copying Twilight. Haha, what's happened to the world?? Great answer :)

Here's <a href="http://readingwithstyle.blogspot.com/2012/11/follow-my-book-blog-friday-62.html">my FF</a>!

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Tamara @ Shelf Addiction
11/9/2012 05:44:51 am

I totally forgot that 50 Shades was Twilight fanfic. How funny.

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Tanya Patrice link
11/9/2012 02:12:45 am

I don't really mind as long as each book has a unique voice.

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Renee Giraldy link
11/9/2012 05:26:34 am

What I saw with the 50 books was a mental illness, abuse, and a dark lost soul. Was it kink? yeah but I think all the people out there buying rope and handcuffs missed the fact that erotica is alive and well and that book was based on a seriously damaged man. Once the damage was cleared you saw love, but it was so far removed from what I personally thought people took away from the book.

In Bared to You it wasn't kink at all it was a powerful man who pursued a woman. There were hot parts but I dont think other than a rich man there were many similar things.

It is all a marketing ploy to get people to buy other books.
www.readingrenee.com

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Tamara @ Shelf Addiction
11/9/2012 05:43:51 am

Thanks for providing more insight on Bared to You, because I was going off of all the hype and thought it was similar story. Even the book covers seem slightly similar in style...Which in this case made me not want to read it since I didn't care for 50 Shades that much. I'm glad to hear it's not a carbon copy.

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