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[Free! Iwatobi Swim Club]

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[Love so Life]

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[the last leg]

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[True Detective]

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[Yume Nikki]

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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.

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