Comments on: J.R. Ward’s ‘Lover Mine’: Tats vs. Electrolysis

By: May Reading Round-Up

May Reading Round-Up — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:42:11 +0000

[...] Lover Mine (2010) by J.R. Ward – Urban Fantasy – DNF (Might give it a third go but I’m in no rush) [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:54:19 +0000

Oochy ouchy! I don’t think I could get either done. I’m not very fond of needles.

I have no idea why this bothered me so much. There are so many things which I could object to in Ward’s books, but they mostly amuse me. The description of JM, for example, always makes me think of The Incredible Hulk. The names are ludicrous. The product placement is blatant, although I believe there’s less of it in Lover Mine than in the last book.

I’ll definitely go back and finish Lover Mine. I probably need to wait a bit until the hype dies down. I find I can better appreciate the BDB books if I go in with low – or no – expectations.

By: Trish

Trish — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:59:44 +0000

I should point out that my electrolysis was on the eyebrows, NOT the pubes. Neither of my tattoos involves a rainbow carp, they’re of the floral hippie dippy variety. And my brief time under the electric needle was long before laser came along.

Overuse of certain irritating phases can put me off a book. There was one detective series (not very good anyway) and the writer kept using the words ‘kitty corner’ every few pages. People sat at tables kitty corner; in all social situations they were positioned kitty corner; I’m sure a few corpses were found lying kitty corner. Drove me nuts.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:12:10 +0000

How could it be clear she was into electrolysis? I mean, did she show her entire hootchie to RIP? And he could tell the difference between that, razor or electrolysis?

And even the people I know who are into heavy ink, admit that sometimes it hurts like hell. Or being JR Ward, hhurts lhike hhell.

By: heidenkind

heidenkind — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:39:44 +0000

I would never have caught that because I honestly did not know what electrolysis was before reading this post. That being said, the fact that she wears a bikini around her parents regularly would have given me pause.

And a rainbow carp? Erm, how hip. Remember that guy I was dating last summer? One of the reasons I broke up with him was because all his tattoos were lame.

By: KC

KC — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:11:45 +0000

You crack me up! Tattoos can be painful depending on where you are getting one and how intricate. Never done electrolysis but I imagine it it like tweezing on acid, which would be far more painful.

PS Were you able to finish Lover Mine?

By: katiebabs

katiebabs — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:41:48 +0000

The first few times with an electrologist can sting, but it all depends where you are getting it done on your body. I also hear getting a tattoo is not as painful, much like electrologist. But then again I wouldn’t have a needle full of electric fun anywhere near my hoo haa line, but that’s just me.

So the name of the tattoo artist, RIP, didn’t pull you out of the story? The moment I read his name I rolled my eyes and snorted.

By: Edie

Edie — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:33:09 +0000

I am the queen of being thrown out of books for odd details. LOL

And out of my tatts the only one that actually hurt, was the first on my ankle when my best friend who was with me nearly crushed my hand while watching the tattooist do his work. LOL Though the inking in wasn’t overly pleasant, but not super painful either.

By: Magdalen

Magdalen — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:31:38 +0000

No tattoo for me (as you know) but I had a course of electrolysis. Didn’t work, possibly because it wasn’t painful enough?

But the real question is why she didn’t go for laser hair removal…

In the meantime, my question to you is this: What are you doing reading JR Ward that carefully?

By: Emily Cardinal

Emily Cardinal — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:36:21 +0000

Okay, I’ve never had a tattoo done. I want one, just haven’t gotten around to it yet, plus a friend of mine who’s a tattoo artist said that I should come back home to get it done at this place in Singapore that’s famous in tattoo-artist-land.

But I did talk to the doctor who did the electrolysis for me about ‘what if I hate the tattoo I get and want it gotten rid off?’ He told me that since I handled the pain of the electrolysis fine, then getting the tattoo and getting it removed (if it came down to it) wouldn’t be a problem.

I’ve been thrown a couple of times by authors who appear to think that Singapore is still stuck in the 1960s post-colonial period (these are books that are set in the past ten years).