SBD -- a character's "parts"
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jmc_bksI'm posting this from a computer other than my own, and I've discovered that it doesn't like it if I use certain "bad" words...so here's my very short, censored SB rant about a heroine's, er, parts.
This past weekend, I read Waiting for It, a Romantica (TM) release by Rhyannon Byrd from Ellora's Cave. The story was a little skimpy, but there was a plot and some character development to accompany the sexual marathon. Taylor Moore is a recently divorced woman living in her hometown; she was in love with Jake Farrell as a teenager, but he despised her. Jake was secretly in love with Taylor in high school, and he returns for her. This would have been a better book with 100 more pages of plot & character development. Still, it was a fairly good read. One of the better pieces of Romantica I've read, and I'm not sorry to have shelled out for the hard copy.
The thing that drove me crazy was Jake's appreciation and contemplation of Taylor's "sex-ravaged" parts. Seriously, Byrd used that phrase at least three times...in a book that is only 215 pages, including cover pages and the pages at the end explaining why a reader may prefer ebooks to hardcopy. Couldn't she at least use a thesaurus? And if the parts in question were so ravaged, how was Taylor not screaming in pain everytime they had sex?
Romantica is about more than sex, it is also about the happy ending. But if there's that much hot monkey loving going on, shouldn't there be more than one way to describe the results of it?
Just wondering.
This past weekend, I read Waiting for It, a Romantica (TM) release by Rhyannon Byrd from Ellora's Cave. The story was a little skimpy, but there was a plot and some character development to accompany the sexual marathon. Taylor Moore is a recently divorced woman living in her hometown; she was in love with Jake Farrell as a teenager, but he despised her. Jake was secretly in love with Taylor in high school, and he returns for her. This would have been a better book with 100 more pages of plot & character development. Still, it was a fairly good read. One of the better pieces of Romantica I've read, and I'm not sorry to have shelled out for the hard copy.
The thing that drove me crazy was Jake's appreciation and contemplation of Taylor's "sex-ravaged" parts. Seriously, Byrd used that phrase at least three times...in a book that is only 215 pages, including cover pages and the pages at the end explaining why a reader may prefer ebooks to hardcopy. Couldn't she at least use a thesaurus? And if the parts in question were so ravaged, how was Taylor not screaming in pain everytime they had sex?
Romantica is about more than sex, it is also about the happy ending. But if there's that much hot monkey loving going on, shouldn't there be more than one way to describe the results of it?
Just wondering.
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eww
Date: 2006-01-10 01:38 pm (UTC)~Beth
Re: eww
Date: 2006-01-10 02:22 pm (UTC)