"The Hoarse Whisperer" was pretty tedious too...I got a sore throat from reading that one.

Romance novels are good now and then for a laugh. You can remove all the pages from 3 or 4 of them, then mix them up at random like when you shuffle a deck of cards, and then assemble 3 or 4 new books! Or combine them all into one huge romance novel...like something Dostoyevsky would have written if he'd been kicked in the head by a mule in his youth. It not only reads great, it sometimes results in a better book than the original when you employ this editing technique. I recommend it. Heaving bosoms, torn bodices, rippling biceps, and sidelong glances from granite-jawed heroes who look like Fabio on steroids... What??? He already is on steroids? Omigod, I am SO, like, devastated!!!