Excerpt from Crimson Death Available
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lkh_lashoutsIf you just can't wait for the 11 October release, there's a small snippet of Crimson Death online here.
Despite all the hype about Edward and Ireland and cool stuff actually happening, they've chosen to showcase a pretty generic and unsexy sex scene, but with Damian in it, along with Nate and Anita.
Based on the excerpt, she still hasn't learned anything about specific words for sex scenes ("his body" ahoy!) or the idea that images of a person being like "meat between his teeth" is NOT SEXY, especially after early books when bodies were described as just so much meat. I get that she's trying to tap into the whole shifters = animalistic deal but it's not quite working.
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Despite all the hype about Edward and Ireland and cool stuff actually happening, they've chosen to showcase a pretty generic and unsexy sex scene, but with Damian in it, along with Nate and Anita.
Based on the excerpt, she still hasn't learned anything about specific words for sex scenes ("his body" ahoy!) or the idea that images of a person being like "meat between his teeth" is NOT SEXY, especially after early books when bodies were described as just so much meat. I get that she's trying to tap into the whole shifters = animalistic deal but it's not quite working.
DV
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Date: 2016-09-22 07:38 am (UTC)"We were all naked and wet with our hair slicked to our bodies [ready for hot sexy group sex]. Some random character had accused me of making people into sex slaves using this power but I disagree. This power is what made him think that. Blah blah blah blah blah blah description of how the arudeurueruer is like needing food, like perhaps sometimes I just need a snack to top up my healthy regular dining and other times I'm really really hungry om nom nom food is fuel boilogy other beings like Jean Claude need different food so this food is just a snack but for me it's real food that I need boilogily and also to stop me becoming a monster blah blah blah..."
Any eroticism set up by the first sentence has now been extinguished.
PS I love the way this scene directly addresses certain non-troo fan complaints: "I do not make my sweeties sex slaves because I just have to have sex to stop myself becoming a monster, which I am not because I carefully feed the arudeiruer with sex."
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Date: 2016-09-22 11:55 pm (UTC)I did like this: "One minute the three of us were standing in the shower like reasonable naked adults" but yes, everything else was pretty awful.
And that is probably a reaction to people noticing (per Envy) that a woman can't shower in an LKH book without men thinking it's an invitation.