Comments on: Tuesday’s Child Gets Distracted

By: Melissa (My World...in words and pages)

Melissa (My World...in words and pages) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:34:29 +0000

Well, I have to agree with you and Urban Fantasy is not all about sex. At least to me. I am probably one of the few people still out there that loves the genre for everything but the sex. Oh, don’t get me wrong the relationships with the characters are part of the book, but I don’t have to have sex to make the story go. I have not read the article written yet by Palmer, but I like all they mystery and magic that goes with it.

By: KerryP

KerryP — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:43:07 +0000

oops i meant to say i had read all of the published Jill Kismet books – sorry about that

By: KerryP

KerryP — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:39:29 +0000

I have just finished reading the first Dante book (and rushing out to buy the rest) and have read all of the published to date and i have to say before i even read the review about urban fantasy being about sex i was thinking that lilith Saintcrow deals really well with the sex/love part of the books and by this i mean – they dont dominate – kick ass action does dominate but the emotional side is done more through carefully worsmithes phrases and innuendo and lets face it hotter for all of that! Laurel K hamilton turned into porn pretty much so i know a lot of authors dont seem to pay the time and attention to keeping the right balance of action and emotion and making emotion emotion not just sex. some of the most erotic scenes i have read in books have had no sex at all! sometimes it seems that writing about sex just seems like the easy way out to me….

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:58:14 +0000

Love the link to the Icelandic “Star Wars”! Priceless. Though… I find myself thinking that someone has too much time on his hands…

@ shiegra – my favorite thing about that blog post was the implication that vampires are all about sex, and werewolves are all about sex, and selkies are all about sex, therefore urban fantasy is all about sex. Hello? Since when are vampires and weres and etc the defining point of urban fantasy? But anyway… it’s too early in my day to be ranting, so I’ll stop now.

By: shiegra

shiegra — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:10:13 +0000

Nnn. I dislike the claim that a woman’s story – her triumphs and struggles against evil and her own past and for her own freedom – is all about her love life on principle. I mean, what the hell? Japh isn’t even IN one of the books, and in none of them is their relationship the main point. (A big point, yes. Not the main one.) And then he said Heathcliff was sexy and my brain stalled. The psycho puppy-hanging dude?

No wonder he thinks vampires are all about sex.

I – I don’t know. I mean, I’m as dirty minded as the next girl. But claiming that ‘it’s all about sex obviously there’s no other interpretation available!’ is painfully ridiculous.

True Blood as an example is kind of laughable; it’s filled with tawdry porn because it’s filled with tawdry porn, not because it’s the natural and inevitable metaphor for murder and/or assault.

Important distinction: because authors have used the ‘violent assault is sexy’ so long it’s been a trope does NOT mean it actually automatically is. Vampires have been, fairly recently, used as a metaphor for sex. That doesn’t mean they naturally are. They are actually kind of analogous to ASSAULT and MURDER.

And then he makes sweeping statements about how sci-fi is about epic battles and tech and urban fantasy is all about emotions that seem kind of belittling to the genre – urban fantasy is usually actually about mystery, adventure, horror, magic – and blatantly untrue, as is his assertion that you couldn’t make a detective story that had more focus on the romance than the who-dun-it. I’ve seen it. I’ve been aggravated by it. I’ve enjoyed a few.

I just – rgh. Not feeling his theory. Not in a friendly way, anyway.