J. R. Ward: Writing like a motherfucker... again.
Gotta love J. R. Ward, the self-proclaimed “best-selling paranormal romance author.” If there is ever a prize given for the creative and gratuitous use of “like a motherfucker,” my money would be on her.
Lover Mine, the 8th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, has the following usages:
Lash “fed like a motherfucker.”
Qhuinn “cursed like a motherfucker.”
Qhuinn, later, is reported to be “shaking like a motherfucker.”
A ‘lesser’ is yanked into an arch that would leave his spine “humming like a motherfucker.” Youch!
And poor Tohr... “hurt like a motherfucker” just to look at a place.
At a mating ceremony, John “was smiling like a motherfucker.” As you do.
Prior to Lover Mine, Ward’s creations typically only ever ‘smiled’ or ‘grinned’ like motherfuckers.
In the just published 9th book of the series, Lover Unleashed, Ward cuts the like-a-mofo tally to just two, including another “shakin’ like a”... but there’s also my favourite to date. The King reports that the Lessening Society is “recruiting like a motherfucker.”
Nice one, J. R.
Reminds me of good old fashioned NSW Labor branch-stacking.
Now I’m gonna listen to ‘Pretty as a Swastika’ by Marilyn Manson.
BTW, JR is pretty good with her sure as shits too.
Lover Mine, the 8th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, has the following usages:
Lash “fed like a motherfucker.”
Qhuinn “cursed like a motherfucker.”
Qhuinn, later, is reported to be “shaking like a motherfucker.”
A ‘lesser’ is yanked into an arch that would leave his spine “humming like a motherfucker.” Youch!
And poor Tohr... “hurt like a motherfucker” just to look at a place.
At a mating ceremony, John “was smiling like a motherfucker.” As you do.
Prior to Lover Mine, Ward’s creations typically only ever ‘smiled’ or ‘grinned’ like motherfuckers.
In the just published 9th book of the series, Lover Unleashed, Ward cuts the like-a-mofo tally to just two, including another “shakin’ like a”... but there’s also my favourite to date. The King reports that the Lessening Society is “recruiting like a motherfucker.”
Nice one, J. R.
Reminds me of good old fashioned NSW Labor branch-stacking.
Now I’m gonna listen to ‘Pretty as a Swastika’ by Marilyn Manson.
BTW, JR is pretty good with her sure as shits too.
Labels: Black Dagger Brotherhood, J. R. Ward
posted by Chris Boyd at 5:24 PM
5 Comments:
For a wonderful, gushing, smutty, fangrrl review of Lover Mine -- with a few necessary spoilers -- cop this.
As my friend Sylvi astutely observes... "she sells like a motherfucker" too.
Hardly fair, is it.
Just wondering, did you put this into an e-reader and do a search? or does the expression just leap off the page for you?
I like to think of it highlighted...Happy new year, too :D
I find advance copy proofs very liberating. All that pent up scribbling, highlighting and dog-earing. Oh yeah. But this was a combo of fluro and word search. :D Best to you (and yours) too. xx
That review was pretty funny. Did you not have any sqealing panties moments (or whatever it was) Chris?
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