Yeah, I struggled through the first and DNF’ed the second.

I read Kindred a few months later and loved it. Haven’t read anything else by her yet.

Not quite the same, but I recently read Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury followed by Fairy Tale by Stephen King.

I didn’t know this before reading them, but the MC of Fairy Tale reads Something Wicked in the course of the story, and there are some other connections.