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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Some of Singh's language can feel a bit....overblown?...if you read one book after another. No one's sad about something, they're devastated! They're not angry or annoyed, they're furious or enraged!
She's one of my auto-buy authors (at least for her paranormals), but I admit I have to be careful not to do too many in a row. Especially when it comes to the books that focus on the Changelings - the over use of the phrase "predatory changeling male" can make me a little bit crazy when I'm doing mass re-read/listens.
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I think all authors have language ticks/often-repeated phrases you don't always see if you read books as they're released, but become glaringly obvious with back-to-back-to-back rereads or if you glom a new-to-you series for the first time. I think that's one of the reasons I also don't read much with audio books, as these types of things jump out more when I hear them vs. when I look at them.
As another example, I never consciously registered how much swearing there is in the In Death books until I listened to them on audio.
But I agree, by the time I get to
Tangle of Need I am usually fed up with "predatory changeling male"
