I gave up on Grafton around M or N as well. Writing them all in the same time period may have seemed a good idea at the time, but once computers and mobile phones came along, it simply looked daft. And the books became very formulaic.
Yes, I think Max was supposed to be older than Lottie. It's difficult to engage with the later books sometimes, as VI makes the same mistakes she made when she started out. And there's a limit to how many times you want to hear Mr Contreras giving her hell and chuntering about the dogs, or Lottie giving her the cold shoulder but still bailing her out. In a long-running series, you want characters to change and grow.
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Date: 2015-02-01 07:10 pm (UTC)Yes, I think Max was supposed to be older than Lottie. It's difficult to engage with the later books sometimes, as VI makes the same mistakes she made when she started out. And there's a limit to how many times you want to hear Mr Contreras giving her hell and chuntering about the dogs, or Lottie giving her the cold shoulder but still bailing her out. In a long-running series, you want characters to change and grow.