*laughing at this entry on Fandom Secrets*

[guardians_song]

You didn't see how full of fanfic tropes her work was BEFORE?

I enjoy Mercedes Lackey's writing, but good grief, it could not be more obvious that if she'd been born later, she would have been a Harry/Draco BNF. And it's also fairly obvious that she went through fandom during a phase before the anal-retentive "This is Sueish! This is unrealistic! This is preachy!" era, because she's not exactly subtle. 'We have telepathic magical horses, and soulmates, and angsty angst angst, and lots of very pretty gay men (and a corresponding dearth of lesbians), and lots of Camel-Case MagicalTalents, and random awesome stuff thrown in because the author felt like it, and...'

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[guardians_song]

*nods* Okay, maybe the quality wildly varies depending on if her editor was drunk that day the book. I know that I did crack up a bit at how over-the-top melodramatic The Last Herald Mage was. I don't remember infodumps being an issue, though.
I'll take care to avoid those books... o_o

[dinogrrl]

Yeah, I generally avoid Lackey's work now, which is a shame because I really do like her worlds and ideas and characters, but the writing is just not something I'm willing to put myself through.

[guardians_song]

She's basically the writer who made me realize that I'll slog through any sort of writing if the worldbuilding/ideas/characters are interesting enough, so I can't disagree. We just have different writing-quality-tolerance levels. :P