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: Black Dagger Brotherhood
October 03, 2011 | Monday | 12 Comments
First, Jennifer Crusie asked me a set of questions that were as challenging as Jane’s, and the interview that resulted is up on ArghInk. I am also over at BookPage answering questions about the genre, about EIKAL, and which type of romance I’d most like to find myself in. (HOUSE PARTY, Y’ALL. HOUSE PARTY!) And if the samples provided online aren’t enough, you can read an extended excerpt of the chapter about (ahem) sex over at Kirkus today! ETA: Linda Holmes over at NPR’s Monkey See pop culture blog also examined EIKAL and how it works, and proposes that she…
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September 23, 2009 | Wednesday | 39 Comments
Could it be? Why, yes! It’s a summary of Chapters 41 through 44 of J.R. Ward’s Dark Lover! Howdy all! It’s been a few weeks since I’ve had a chance to sit down and snark on a few more chapters of Ward’s much-vaunted vampire tome. (I blame my tenure packet, due in a little over a month to my department Chair.) I need to get back in the saddle and ride on through these last chapters, as there aren’t many left. These last few chapters are for the most part short, silly, and incredibly oy-inducing. I hope y’all enjoy. Chapter…
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August 27, 2009 | Thursday | 27 Comments
Please, sir, I’d like some more…of J.R. Ward’s skillfully crafted paranormal masterpiece, Dark Lover! Chapters 36 through 50, comin’ up! As the book goes on, the chapters become shorter (thank the Scribe Virgin!) and sillier. The next several are all some of the book’s most delightful. We get to meet a goddess, we’re treated to more stilted dialogue from Marissa and Butch, and we’re exposed to dangerously high levels of over-the-top masculinity. One note before I continue: I should say that if Ms. Ward is reading any of these reviews, she’s being a tremendously good sport about it, and she…
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August 26, 2009 | Wednesday | 86 Comments
What do you get when you take a math professor who is curious about romance, the crahkalicious Black Dagger Brotherhood, and the internet?
Why, DocTurtle’s Black Dagger Brotherhood Madlibs of course.
Thanks to DocTurtle, we have so much fun, we might end up crashing the UNC Ashville server. Oh, it’s just a beautiful thing. Enjoy!
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August 20, 2009 | Thursday | 48 Comments
Chapters 31 through 35 of J. R. Ward’s Dhark Lover, as told by DocTurtle We’re finally more than halfway through this beast of a book, and the action’s picking up. What’s in store for us yet? As I look back over these chapters (please remember that I long ago finished reading the book), I find myself worrying that I may run out of things to snark: how many times can you make fun of sentence structure, silly names, and overblown product placement? Then I realize that here and there are scattered pockets of comedic wonderfulness, hiding in the pages of…
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August 19, 2009 | Wednesday | 58 Comments
My Date with a Vampire continues as we pass directly through the dark, dark center of J.R. Ward’s Dark Lover! Chapter 26: Sex + exposition = sexposition As this first chapter of the second half of Ward’s novel begins, Beth and Wrath wrap up their first dinner date with dessert: “Whole strawberries on a gold-rimmed plate. Some chocolate on the side to dip them in. A little cookie.” And not one of them with a corporate sponsor! How sad. Wrath takes especial pleasure in feeding Beth a strawberry, even as she questions him about his whereabouts and goings-on from the…
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August 12, 2009 | Wednesday | 29 Comments
Chapters 16 through 20 of J.R. Ward’s Dark Lover, as filtered through the mind of a snarky mathematician Well, we’ve made it this far, folks! Shall we go on? Yes, indeed we shall! The next several chapters are filled with more action than the last several, and so they read very quickly. Chapter 16: Fill your glasses, ladies and gentlemen… …the drinking game recommences. There’s not a great deal of action in this chapter (Beth returns to Wayne Manor with Wrath while Butch curses himself for putting her in a position where harm can and almost certainly will come to…
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August 06, 2009 | Thursday | 105 Comments
Killing me softly with this tome: Chapters 10 through 16 of J.R. Ward’s Dark Lover Oy. Another six chapters. The action’s heating up and the plot takes a few odd turns, but the characters are pretty much stuck in place. There’s pretty much no characterization beyond “Beth is bold and sexy” and “Wrath is a total bad-ass.” These characters are flatter than a stretch of Interstate in Indiana. Let’s pick up where we left off… Chapter Ten: Mangled metaphors on aisle six Beth lies in bed near the end of her steamy Wrathful night. She looks over her partner dreamily.…
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August 05, 2009 | Wednesday | 39 Comments
On, on, deeper into J.R. Ward’s Dark Lover! In reading the comments to my first post on this bit of dreck I feel as though I’ve found several dozen kindred spirits. Now on Chapter 33, I’m having to backtrack a bit to keep up with the chapter summaries (but what fun they are! well worth the trouble), and I too am sick and tired of gratuitous references to gangsta rap artists (J.R., puhleeze: just because you know who Jay-Z is doesn’t mean you’re still wit’ it. Embrace your badass old school self!) and prominent product placements. Can somebody please tell…
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July 27, 2009 | Monday | 111 Comments
He’s back! After the splendid members of the Bitchery recommended many, many books for Dr. Turtle, aka SBiT Patrick, the choice was Dark Lover by JR Ward. Behold: Chapters 1-5. Let the mhahgic begihn! If you’re not familiar with the styling’s of DocTurtle’s romance blogging, he reviews the book chapter by chapter. Ergo: SPOILERS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ARE BELOW THE FOLD OK?!?!! Hey, all! DocTurtle…or SBiT Patrick…or whatever we decided I should be called on this blog…here, ready to say a few words about my latest reading assignment for SBTB, J.R. Ward’s Dark Lover, the first of a…
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July 04, 2009 | Saturday | 55 Comments
So you know how people picture different actors or models or even random dudes they know in the role of fictional heroes? Yeah. I would be shocked if anyone pictured any of these dudes as the heroes of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Especially fluttery Brad with his long long hair.
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May 11, 2009 | Monday | 226 Comments
ETA: 13 May: Please note, this comment thread is so amazing and interesting, but because we’re talking about series and when readers stopped reading and why (or why not), it can and does get spoiler-y. Proceed at your own risk, be ye warned, herein be spoilers, yarr. On Tuesday at the Bosoms booksigning at the Clifton Commons Barnes & Noble, I got into a thought-provoking discussion with Sydney, Marisa, Kiersten, and the other ladies who came (who told me they lurk and never comment - I didn’t want to embarrass them but hi, folks!) about what makes us break up…
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April 06, 2009 | Monday | 15 Comments
From the Unintentionally Hilarious Department: Beyond Heaving Bosoms: the Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels is #2 in “Movements & Periods” on Amazon.
No, really, take a look. While being #2 in Movements and Periods makes me giggle like a 10 year old boy, I have goals. And my goal? NUMBER ONE in Movements and Periods.
Oh, hell. Never mind. We’re screwed.
[Thanks to Hubby for obsessively checking on the status of our movements and periods.]
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June 10, 2008 | Tuesday | 53 Comments
Sharp-eyed reader Sandia alerted us to the fabulously odd differences between the US and UK editions of the Jh.Rh. Whard Bhlahck Dhaggher Bhrotherhood series. Somehow, the US readership totally lucked out in the covers for these books. The UK…? We’re really sorry.
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