For the past month or so, I’ve been glued to the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which currently has about 16 books in the set. About halfway through the series, everything goes straight to porn.
Anita Blake is a vampire hunter, necromancer, and by the time we get to the 16th book, kind of a whore. She started out as a kick-ass female of near role-model quality. Didn’t hesitate to shoot or hurt someone if she was in danger or someone she cared about was in danger.
But all the steamy stories evaporated any trace of plot … or Anita herself. The woman that had sort of represented a better Buffy, if you will, was subjugated to sex with multiple partners of different variety–vampire, werewolf, wereleopard, etc. No problem with beastiality here.
Please, do not start reading the series. It’s just not worth it; you’ll feel like you have to keep reading with the hopes that maybe Hamilton has woken up to see the error of her ways. I don’t know what she’s watching to make her write like this. The only thing I can figure? Lots of porn.
I’ve just tried to recognize that her writing style is out of my hands and shouldn’t be in my Kindle.
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your so right I don’t know why she went from having this great series of books to complete trash.
We all have choices whether to stop, continue or skip reading the books. I’m already finished with book 17 and I managed to survive that ardeur-hole LKH did during Narcissus in CHains even up to Micah by simply—skipping the sex scenes. Its easy cause half the bookswere of those but still I enjoy the little plot there was left to it.
I like the story and the characters, though how much they were differnt now than how they used to be is solely based on how we interpret to like it. Lets face it she’s has a fake love life and can never really love anyone. Unfortunately how sad it may be, she represents a lot of wayward lost women in society which is a take on a very different protagonist personality. Maybe I like it cause I always considered her the Anti-hero, never the hero so she can ruin her life all she wants I just want more books.
I like the plot not necessarily the characters but it’s a book worth your time if you know how to skip a handful of pages or know how to skim…