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[Love so Life]

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[True Detective]

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[Black Dagger Brotherhood Series]

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[Black Dagger Brotherhood Series]

I've never heard about these books before, but man, those titles make me laugh!

Dude, the TITLES make you laugh? You should check out the main male characters' names!

Rhage, Zsadist, Phury, Rehvenge, Tohrment...those are just some of the ones I remember.

Jesus Christ. Ok yes OP it does sound like a TV show would be an improvement.

oh my god help me.

YES. The names were SO SO SO SO bad. I read the first book, but couldn't make it through the second.

With what aspect/s? I mean, you can't think every aspect is bad, or you wouldn't want a TV show of it, right? Does the author botch characterization, plot, sex scenes, neck anatomy, what?

Yes.

Um, have you seen some of the stuff on television? Yes, some show writers are awesome, some are good, some are okay, but there are absolutely bad ones out there. I could see it if you thought the story was particularly suited to the format or you just wanted to see it, but the supposition that any show writer will be better than the author is a little strange.

What passes for world-building with this author includes a super-speshul language for her vampires...based on poking an "h" into normal English words. I dare you to read a page of that--or better yet, her glossary--with a straight face.

nayrt

I don't find anything wrong with the language she's made up. So what if it's just an 'h' inserted to make them different from regular English words? I don't mind if that's how she chooses to differentiate between the vampire world she created and the regular world. I also like how she uses 'young' instead of 'children' and 'female' instead of 'woman' and so on. She writes with more skill than a lot of writers of popular vampire fiction out there. Her action scenes are descriptive and forward-driving. There's no stall in her writing, the plot moves forward all the time and spills over into successive books, there are family conflicts as well as relationship conflicts, and vampire vs. human conflicts. She's also one of only two 'romance' writers I am aware of that are not just only willing to write males in love but have given these couples their own books and plots.

I'm not saying there aren't some flaws with her writing but the pros far outweigh the cons as far as that goes.

But to each their own, I guess.

LOL whatever, I can't take characters named Rhage, Tohrture, and Aghony seriously--or the author who thought those names sounded badass. But stan away, young disciple.

"Tohrture"

Hey, I finally found a worse character name than Huegoe!

The character names are from an "old" language that humans picked up and transformed to the modern words.

Given that Ward is supposedly a big name romance writer I'm just glad the books are total crap.

That doesn't even make sense because we know the etymologies of words. For instance, "torment":

c.1300, "the inflicting of torture," also "state of great suffering, pain, distress," from Old French torment "torture, pain, anguish, suffering distress" (11c., Modern French tourment), from Latin tormentum "twisted cord, sling; clothes-press; instrument for hurling stones," also "instrument of torture, a rack," figuratively "anguish, pain, torment," from torquere "to twist" (see torque (n.)).

It's just lazy, uncreative writing.

"She writes with more skill than a lot of writers of popular vampire fiction out there."

Uh, that's not really saying much. Also, if your vampire world-building relies heavily upon inserting random h's into words, than I'm also not convinced that's skillful writing.

Maybe the author is just that bad?

IDK, I've never heard of this series, much less read it.

It's actually a pretty good series over all, sure there are some issues but what series doesn't have them?

I read and enjoy this series quite a lot - even though I feel there is zero eroticism and hotness in her sex scenes - mostly because, contrary to a lot of writers of popular vampires today, the writer kicks ass with characterization, narrative and prose. Her plots don't stall at all and I'm always interested in the next book.

What exactly do you not like about what she's doing in her books?

Adding to the list of those asking just what you find wrong with the series.

Yeah some of it's corny as hell, the names are supposed to be older language adapted by humans, the sex scenes can be hit or miss, but otherwise it's not bad. Then again, I happen to enjoy some terrible things so I may not be the best person to ask.

Personally, I'm not able to get over those shit stupid names to actually read those things. It's just... why didn't anyone ever tell her how fucking stupid those names sound? They are literally Enoby levels of ridiculously, embarassingly stupid.

I haven't read it, but it would be hard for me to get past the stupid names, too. ESPECIALLY if they're supposed to represent an older language that just happens to include a lot of names that look exactly like modern English words with an h jammed into them somewhere.

I'd be more inclined to buy it if, for example, the characters were 12 y/o metalheads who accidentally bound themselves to terrible names in what turned out to be a permanently binding naming ceremony. But I haven't read these books, so maybe it works anyway?

But names are one of the few things I'm really picky about. Like, I don't mind it when "alien" characters are just human actors with a stamp on their forehead or pointy ears, but lazy language-building is pretty hard for me to get over. If you enjoy them, great!

I don't know, maybe I should try them just to see if the author can make it work.

I'm an AVID reader/writer of vampire fiction, and I can't say this name is familiar at all. I did recently read a book by Kerrelyn Sparks where absolutely nothing happened. Seriously. GREAT Premise. (Angel falls from Heaven, falls for a vampire)

Are they that bad? Because I'm always looking for more books to read with vampires!

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