User blog comment:Drgyen/Is H.T. overusing alliteration and metaphors in many of his works?/@comment-21519-20101128160224

Lists of similes from HT's writing? I really can't think of all that many. Teerts shot down a Spitfire and said it was "easy as a female in heat," which is rather out of step with what we'd later learn about Lizard sexual attitudes. In the same book, one of Jager's people gave us "Panzers are like sex, having a big one is not as important as knowing what to do with it," but I don't believe that's a simile, technically speaking. Less raunchily, someone called something "black as a sergeant's heart" one time. A fairly interesting phrase, but otherwise an eminently forgettable scene; I don't even remember the book. Obviously it was a low-ranking soldier, and I know it was within the last few years, so I'd guess either MwIH or TWTPE.