Monotony
There is a fine line between familiar characteristics of the people in a series of books and language that’s monotonous. In Sue Grafton (or is it another female author whose name escapes me at the moment) I became irritated by the expression “she snagged her bag as she headed out the door,” in every single book. Silly? Yep. Years working in law offices sensitized me to “boilerplate.” It was a big advance in document preparation when with a few keystrokes you could insert paragraphs or whole pages into one you were working on. It beat typing every single word, page after page. I get the feeling some of these authors are doing the same thing.
Finally, in CD #4, there are some new angles in Zebra but I doubt I’ll care about any others.
Candace