Once is Chance, Twice is Coincidence, Three Times is Enemy Action

[kerravonsen]

Yes, I know it is a coincidence, but I could be forgiven for thinking that Fishpond has a grudge against Jean Johnson -- or at least, against her latest series.

The first book, "A Soldier's Duty" took so long to arrive that I had to order it from Amazon... and even though I ordered it from Amazon well after I ordered it from Fishpond... the Amazon book arrived first. (This does not usually happen.)

The second book, "An Officer's Duty", I ordered two copies, one for me and one for my brother. They only sent me one copy.

We shall have wait and see what they do with the third book.

Currently I am reading "The Sword", the first book in her "Sons of Destiny" series. I'm not really sure that it's my cup of tea. It looks to be romance mixed with adventure, rather than adventure mixed with romance, but I can't say I didn't know that. One only has to look at the cover (man's torso, bare-chested, only showing his body from lips to waist) to see that it's marketed as a romance rather than a fantasy novel. Fortunately, unlike most Romance-Fantasies, the author does know her fantasy tropes, and the plot is holding together so far, and I trust that it will continue to hold together. And there have been some quite amusing bits. 8-)

Comments

[hawkeye7]

For some reason. I was expecting Goldfinger....

[kerravonsen]

Alas, I do not follow your train of thought.

[hawkeye7]

The Ian Fleming James Bond novel Goldfinger uses this saying (which he made up). It provides the structure of the novel, which is divided into three books. In "Chance", Bond beats Goldfinger at cards having stumbled across him in Miami on an unrelated assignment. This causes the death of Jill. In "Coincidence", Bond tracks Goldfinger for SIS and the Treasury Secret Service, and defeats him in a game of golf. Finally, in "Enemy Action", Bond thwarts Goldfinger's outrageous plan to rob Fort Knox.

[kerravonsen]

Ah, interesting. It's one of those sayings that's passed into common use without note of its origins - I've never read or seen "Goldfinger" so I didn't know that that was where it came from.