Writing I'm having a "butt" problem

Which word for the blurb?

  • curvy

    Votes: 3 10.0%
  • curvaceous

    Votes: 18 60.0%
  • enormous butt

    Votes: 9 30.0%

  • Total voters
    30

MorweMorningMorgen

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I'm having trouble developing a good blurb for my story. I am very close to finishing it, but I'm having trouble creating an eye-catching first sentence. The story is non-LitRPG, non-Isekai, and non-Wuxia.

The cover for this web novel is going to feature a lady thief who has a really big butt. The art style will be anime. She is going to be wearing a costume that she usually wears while committing robberies.

This story will center around the robberies committed by the aforementioned female MC & an ugly male MC. The romance will be slow-burn, and the blurb will mention this. It will be hundreds of thousands of words before the MCs have sex. However, the story will have, and I'm not joking, hundreds of (titillating) sex scenes after a certain point, so I think the story deserves the smut category. The story will likely have chapters in the thousands, with about more than 200 of those chapters having sex scenes. However, sex won't be the focus of the story, and the story will get super serious after a certain point, although sex scenes will still occur very frequently. There will be much more fight scenes than sex scenes.

The blurb's first sentence is going to mention her butt in some way.

I have three options (Note: Haven't decided on names yet):

"X is a curvy woman who lives a secret life as a thief."

"X is a curvaceous woman who lives a secret life as a thief."

"X is a female thief with an enormous butt."

Here's the pros and cons I thought for each first sentence:
Curvy: A word commonly used to indicate that someone has a big butt. However, it has become a synonym for someone who is overweight. My female MC is actually overweight, but not that overweight, and she's also overweight in the right places.
Curvaceous: Also an accurate word, but seems a little too complicated-looking. A lot of web novel readers don't know English as their first language, so that might scare them away.
Enormous butt: More spot-on, but may make the story seem too pornographic and light-hearted. May make readers think that the female MC's butt is going to be mentioned constantly throughout the story, and that the story will be centered around sex (although there will be A LOT of sex). In the actual story, the female MC's butt will be mentioned only once (although other attractive body parts will be mentioned often whenever she's around the male MC), and her butt will not be directly mentioned again until soon before sex scenes start happening. If I don't explicitly mention the female MC's butt in the blurb, the readers will still know she has a big one thanks to the cover and the adjectives "curvy/curvaceous". The more subtle mention will make readers know that sex will happen, but won't be the center of the story.
 

EternalSunset0

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I personally like Curvaceous the most, but that's coming from my main background which is an academic writer/ESL assistant. I think it's the most accurate one without sounding too casual/light-hearted.
 

Discount_Blade

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Voluptuous might work too, though it might not be the best word to describe a butt specifically since Voluptuous is normally used to describe a woman's entire figure altogether with everything in consideration.

But Voluptuous and Curvaceous mean the same thing.
 

MrTiemos

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Writing about a robber FMC without using the description ‘large ASSets?’
HERESY!!!

On a more serious note, is it not possible to say it like this?:
“X is a curvaceous woman with a large behind/rear which couldn’t contradict the subtle nature of thieving more.”
Granted, that sentence could be rearranged to make it easier for readers who aren’t well versed in English...
 

Joyeuse

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X is a woman with a very juicy peach, a beautiful and voluptuous peach, living a secret life, during the day she is [x thing] but during the night she sneaks in the shadows acting as a thief

Edit: Sorry I couldn't hold myself from writing this, though sincerely I feel curvy and curvaceous feel too general since they don't refer specifically to the rear area but rather to the whole body...
Edit2: Also as for why I never say butt there, well isn't it fun to look for synonyms sometimes? Peach, rearguard, bum, hindquarters, bottom...
 
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ThrillingHuman

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2nd seems to be better. Most peeps will prolly skip over the sentence anyway, so no need to bother with how rare a word it may be or whatnot
 

High-in-the-skys

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Well if I like less 'complicated' words, I would use 'bountiful and blessed bottom'.

Though I would really suggest you to use curvaceous. Sure, it's complicated but it's suited right? I remember the first time I read the word 'plethora'. Though I didn't understand what it meant, the word felt 'right' in the sentence so I didn't complain.

If you really are worried that they won't understand then I suggest you to use context clues. An example of it is, "The library has a plethora of books. Shelves filled with tomes extends as far as I can see"
 
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