Rereading some BDSM erotic romance

[jmc_bks]

After reading Joan/SarahF's post, Four Ways to NOT Write BDSM Romance, and the accompanying thread, I went back and reread James Buchanan's Hard Fall.  And I also gave Anah Crow's Uneven another go 'round, in part because last month I read her collaboration with Dianne Fox, Becoming Us, and enjoyed it. [Liked  the writing despite some minor flaws

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[sarahf]

I'm so glad you enjoyed the Buchanan on reread. I love Joe. I actually enjoyed his voice, grammar and all, because, well, it was his voice, authentic enough. And I love CC and IE.

And thank you for realizing "the problem is with me, not with the writing." Very few people will realize that. (Maybe I should take my own advice, right, re: Kersten?) Because Uneven can look like abuse, I guess. But it's so not.

Thanks for the narrative of your reading. Very interesting!

[jmc_bks]

Re: Joe's voice, I've been thinking about grammar and its presentation in written English versus spoken English a lot lately. If I were listening to an audio book of Hard Fall or even to a person in real life who spoke the same way, it would not have bothered me. Obviously my expectations are different, then, depending on the delivery mechanism. Is that appropriate? Should it matter? (It does to me, obviously, but do I need to re-evaluate how I approach non-standard English in fiction, especially when it comes to POV and narration?)

If you were to ask me which of the two Crow books I've now read would I likely re-read in the future, my answer would be Uneven, because it has prompted much more thinking than Becoming Us. That's not to say that BU was not a good story, but I don't think it's going to linger or make me evaluate the text and my assumptions and baggage in the same way.

Even as I read and re-read Uneven, I *knew* that what was going on between Rase and Gabriel wasn't abuse. But I couldn't disassociate the two in my

[eroticjames]

Thank you for giving Hard Fall a second chance.

*and so you know I'm not crazy stalker....I googled my own name, bedroom and livejournal looking for a photo I'd posted about an amoire I'd converted to a TV cabinet. The post came up. Of course I looked*

[jmc_bks]

It was my pleasure :)

I'm enjoying Inland Empire right now.