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Originally Posted by Saya
Hahahaha, I downloaded Dark Hunter last night and got halfway through in an hour. I must have been viewing Dark Gold with nostalgia goggles because it was pretty bad XD Still entertaining though, and at least in that one she actually said "penis" instead of "shaft" and didn't refer to the vagina as a "velvety sheath".
I guess with modern romance novels there is that leeway with it because basically all it is, is erotica that is dressed up in such a way that you don't feel like a pervert for reading it on the bus or in front of your kids. The story is very secondary to the sex, I felt like she was really rushing to get to the point where they got to have sex and then pages later it was like "oh yeah! The plot!" Don't take that as me saying you have bad taste, because like I said it was entertaining. I get it, I might read another one sometime and I just like criticizing things.
Oh, Fruitbat, did you ever read anything by Laurie Halse Anderson?
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I haven't read any of Laurie's work.
I did buy a book like Dark Hunter - it was Maggie Shane's Forsaken. Hubby was wondering why i kept bursting out with laughter while reading it.
I think the use of the anatomically correct terms flicks a censorship switch, so they can say things like throbbing shaft instead of erection or penis, without it falling into r/x-rated category.