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Absosmurfly right.
Thu, Aug. 7th, 2008 22:22I owe Laurell K. Hamilton a mental apology. Here's how that came about:
I purchased the hardcover of Blood Noir within the first week it was out, and mostly I enjoyed it every bit as much as I'd anticipated. The one really jarring item for me, avoiding spoilers as much as I can, is that at one point the main character is very upset because villain interruptions prevented her from taking her daily birth control when she'd had sex on a certain day, and she knows that she isn't suited to being a mother.
"It doesn't work like that," I thought. "If you've been taking b.c. pills for quite a while, it isn't right that day that a miss causes trouble, but the next month. ... isn't it?"
So, yesterday at my annual physical, I asked my doctor about it. I explained loosely about this scenario in a romance novel, where the main characters have the boinkies and then get, essentially, kidnapped by the bad guys and held prisoner for a few days, and since she didn't take her pill at suppertime the same day that she'd previously had sex, female lead could be pregnant now: it doesn't work that way, does it?
With great glee, she said, "Oh, yes, it does, and it's wonderful that FOR ONCE a book got it right!" If you're gonna get kidnapped and you're not on the patch, make sure your birth control pills get kidnapped along with you.
Ergo, I was totally off on that, and LKH was absosmurfly right, and I hope to get a chance to tell her so at Dragon*Con this year.
I purchased the hardcover of Blood Noir within the first week it was out, and mostly I enjoyed it every bit as much as I'd anticipated. The one really jarring item for me, avoiding spoilers as much as I can, is that at one point the main character is very upset because villain interruptions prevented her from taking her daily birth control when she'd had sex on a certain day, and she knows that she isn't suited to being a mother.
"It doesn't work like that," I thought. "If you've been taking b.c. pills for quite a while, it isn't right that day that a miss causes trouble, but the next month. ... isn't it?"
So, yesterday at my annual physical, I asked my doctor about it. I explained loosely about this scenario in a romance novel, where the main characters have the boinkies and then get, essentially, kidnapped by the bad guys and held prisoner for a few days, and since she didn't take her pill at suppertime the same day that she'd previously had sex, female lead could be pregnant now: it doesn't work that way, does it?
With great glee, she said, "Oh, yes, it does, and it's wonderful that FOR ONCE a book got it right!" If you're gonna get kidnapped and you're not on the patch, make sure your birth control pills get kidnapped along with you.
Ergo, I was totally off on that, and LKH was absosmurfly right, and I hope to get a chance to tell her so at Dragon*Con this year.