Facebook flog - Jan 22 2013

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Link: Jan 22 2014, 3:29
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

It's Tuesday, how about another teaser from, A Shiver of Light, the new Meredith Gentry novel, June 2014:

Doyle's hand tightened on mine, and he said, "Swear it, by the Darkness that eats all things."

Rhys looked very serious then, "Let me swear it on the love I bear Merry, our children, and the men in this room, the men and women that are waiting for news at the home we have all built. Let me swear on the first true happiness I have known in 'lo these long, dark centuries, our little Rose will not die here like this, she will grow strong and crawl fast enough to frustrate her brother."

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[dwg.livejournal.com]

I WILL DO IT! I WILL TAKE THE RING TO MORDOR!

[lliira (from livejournal.com)]

Oh barf.

[dagonista.livejournal.com]

I fucking loathe Rhys.

[dagonista.livejournal.com]

He was the one-eyed former death god who crept around Merry when she was a teenager even though he was under her aunt's sex ban and it could have got them both tortured/executed. Such a catch.

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

This just sounds dumb. I really wish I had something more in-depth to say, or justification thereof, but...it just sounds dumb to me, that's all.

[cherrypep.livejournal.com]

"she will grow strong and crawl fast enough to frustrate her brother."

Makes the kid sound like an invertebrate.

Also, can't help but think of that old joke:
Q. What do you call a virgin in [place you don't personally rate very highly]?
A. A girl who can run faster than her brothers.

[marcusthewu.livejournal.com]

Remember a while ago when she was talking about how she was going to write about all of the stages of pregnancy with Merry, and condescendingly wrote about how of course fairy princesses still had to go through the boring parts of pregnancy? I am glad that she has enough writing sense to know that was a bad idea and INCREDIBLY BORING and we are getting on with it.

[clover-elf-kin.livejournal.com]

Okay, usually I'd giggle at the sibling-rivalry stuff, but the phrasing REALLY doesn't fit with the high-fantasy style of speech he's using, and is just completely out of place with the scene in general. A good writer does NOT mix classic-literature-type dialogue with modern phrasing--unless it's for, generally, a laugh, which is probably not what LKH is going for here.

Also, I haven't been paying much attention to who's who, but Rose and her brother are Merry's "should be dead from three times too many chromosomes" twins, correct? That line arguably makes no sense about two babies the same age unless they know one will be delayed/disabled. And GODS FORBID anything like THAT should ever happen, because a disability is always OMG SO TRAGIC no matter how minor, I'm sure... -_-

[okami-no-yume.livejournal.com]

*head tilt*

Uhhhh....is Merry still pregnant? Or are the twins already born?

The "Darkness that eats all things" bit made me snicker. There's a thousand jokes that could be made from that line alone...

[deadsong.livejournal.com]

...what the shit is this?

[queenmeow.livejournal.com]

Really! Everything could be from a pop culture movie or tv show. There's no originality to her writing anymore.

[lliira (from livejournal.com)]

I can't imagine a movie or TV pilot being greenlit with writing this horrendous.