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Originally Posted by library addict
I can see where she is tired of the why do your characters swear/when will Eve and Roarke have a baby/you write so many books you must have a ghost writer type of comments and questions. It's the same comments/questions from 20 years ago.
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I didn't get on the "ghost writer" bandwagon until the last couple of years. In one of her more recent books, she wrote that the button Roarke carries around was from Mavis' coat that Eve borrowed, rather than Eve's suit. Since this gets mentioned at least once in every book, that seemed a pretty big error! (I've since thought it's more likely her "continuity checker" probably changed - who knows, she might get it wrong every time herself!)
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
This is something funny for me. Why do you characters swear? But no why do you have serial killer and gritty details? It's something I don't get, really.
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I lived with someone who was so against cursing that you couldn't even use the sound-alikes. She was raised in a very religious home, and saying things like "jeez" or "gosh" were just as bad as saying "Jesus" or "God" when you were angry/surprised/whatever.
She could still enjoy a good murder mystery, though, because the bad guys (mostly) get caught and are punished. Harder to have characters she otherwise liked and respected behaving "poorly".
I have to admit there are times I think "enough already!" - but like LibraryAddict, I probably didn't really notice it until I started listening to audiobooks.
In Nalini Singh's latest Psy-Changeling book,
Silver Silence, she used a couple of words I don't believe I've seen in any of her other Psy/Guild Hunter books and I wanted to wash my bluetooth speaker's mouth out with soap!
Not a comfortable listen when I'm home with the windows open and the neighbors are around.