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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Hey BookCat.
"she can’t seem to stop killing men"
"she again kills a lot of men"
"when she’s done, will any men be left alive?"
Killing is a pretty high degree of violence, no? And the book is silly over-the-top violence. (She kills a guy by stuffing a basketball trophy up a guy's nose.)
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In the blurb, those phrases are thrown out in a very casual manner, leading the potential reader to expect less violence in the killing. Also, the qualifiers like "seem to" and the questioning of the last quotation leave an element of doubt: maybe the killing isn't real, but happens in her fantasies (a kind of vengeful Walter Mitty.)
I seriously didn't see much humour in that passage, just extreme violence. I don't mind swearing when it's illustrative of a subculture or used sparingly and I wouldn't dismiss a book because of it, but even I found some of the language unnecessary, contributing greatly to the sense of serious violence, rather than slapstick humour.