There's a new reviewer over at Dear Author named Kelly and she did a review of a book series about brothers and the reviews are quite funny because the books are obviously nightmarish reads. And right there in book #1 is a brother claiming his interest in a woman by saying, in front of his brothers, "Dibs."
Oh the hate that rolled out from that. "Dibs!" we cried. As if a woman is an apple tart and a man simply picks the piece he wants first. How dare he! How dare a writer write such tripe!
Nora did it too in the Rafe MacKade book.
Just sayin'.
Well, a man (or a boy, more like) can dare all he wants--though it pretty much ensures that neither him nor whomever he says it to will get any of that.
ReplyDeleteHis/their choice, yes?
Makes you want to smack the author almost a smidge more than teh dude that says 'dibs', right?
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I never saw what all the hoopla was about. In a family of males competition is rife and I can totally see one of them saying that to warn his brothers off. Doesn't say a thing about his real thoughts.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the real difference though, is the writer. And the family created by that writer.
I'm going to put it in my book and have the heroine dump of pitcher of drinks over both their heads.
ReplyDeleteHeh.
You could be on to something Carolyn. And it could have been worse. they could have stood there with score cards as she passed.
ReplyDeleteOr worse - called shotgun!
Lori? LOL