spill (for clarification)

[digitalusrex.livejournal.com]

in incubus dreams, i got about halfway through before i began unofficially counting the number of times miss laurell used the world "spill" (or "spilled," "spilling," etc). unofficially, i counted maybe 8 or 9 "spills" before i started officially counting. 32 after that.

having started re-reading danse macabre, in the first 160 pages or so: 11. [EDIT: 16 at 314 pages. EDIT EDIT: 21 at 383 pages (also, 4 times on one page!)]

i know i have favorite words that i like to use, but this goes above and beyond. now, while reading danse macabre, i've tried to decide if other words could have been substituted and stayed true to the original meaning of the passage. yep.

a LOT of things annoy me about the series, especially the last 4 books, but this "spill" nonsense is what is bugging me this week. if miss laurell had an editor with ballz, perhaps it would have made a difference?

have you all noticed this overusage of the word "spill"?

Comments

[digitalusrex.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha!

vanilla: i mean, really, does she have to rub it in our faces that he smells better than we do on any given day?
hair: she does seems obsessed with the color of her hair. darkity dark?

and yes! yes! yes! with the feeding at the mouth!!!!!!!!!!1

and the ardeur. i got incubus dreams on audio book as something fun to try and i cringed every time the reader said "ardeur."

here's another one that popped up here and there later in the series, but is in full force in DM: "i tried to put into my face what i felt for him." it makes me want to stab myself in the head.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

"i tried to put into my face what i felt for him." it makes me want to stab myself in the head.

OMGEYENOES!!!!

*stabbity stab stab*

Here, use this. Hurts less.

Ar-dooey. Oy vey. I will live long and die happy if I never hear that word again.