OMGWTFBBQ!!?!

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Being a sheep, I picked up a copy of Lover Enshrined from the library.


1. penile system =/= a criminal system. Unless one is writing about a reproductive or urological problem, the desired word is probably "penal".
2. Stop with the giggly teenaged girl language coming out of the mouths of 6.5' badasses. And with the the texting language. It ruins the badass image.
3. Mr. N's narration was painful. I kept thinking of Foghorn Leghorn as I read, which I'm pretty sure wasn't the image Ward wanted in my head. Which brings me to...
4. Nine POVs? Nine? Were that many really necessary? Phury, Cormia, John Matthew, Qhuinn, Rehvenge, Xhex, Lash, Mr. N, Scribe Virgin. I could be missing some.

Comments

Ward

[(Anonymous)]

She is an author "I don't get" and don't care to get. I know I am missing nothing. Liked your short and to the point review. LOL.

Keishon

Re: Ward

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I'm very ambivalent about Ward. Yes, the BDB is like crack and doesn't pretend to be high art, so why are people getting all into an uproar about her work? But then I think there are some things to discuss:

1. marketing and series arcs -- should a series that is tailing into Urban Fantasy be marketed as a genre romance?

2. cultural appropriation and B/W -- widely discussed already, but the use of the word "race" and "protect the race" in LEn made me very uncomfortable

3. the stereotyping of gender roles in the books, females as broodmares (more or less), and the lack of strong female characters in the series

4. homoeroticism in mainstream genre romance