I decided to give the Anita Blake books one more chance and see if maybe Laurell K Hamilton could get back to supernatural crimes and mysteries. A good deal of the opening pages of Affliction see Anita Blake telling any number of self righteous people that there’s nothing wrong with having sex with hundreds of random strangers and it’s none of their business anyway. In Anita Blake’s universe, just about any ‘normal’ person is now shown as a narrow minded bigot and often, a bible thumping narrow minded bigot. You’re married and only have sex with one person? Bah! What a fuddy…
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Kiss The Dead
Laurell K. Hamilton has banged out 21 Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books. The fact that her name is ten times larger than Anita’s is proof that the writer has become more important than the story. While this a good thing for the publisher and the author, it’s not always a good thing for the reader. The first half of Kiss The Dead really got my hopes up. We find Anita Blake acting as a US Marshall, chasing down bad guys, talking business with her Cop buddies. She even mentions in passing that she sometimes works as a Reanimator. There’s a…
Hit List:Antia Blake and Edward Ride Again
Laurell K Hamilton goes old school with Anita Blake in the 20th book in the series. Hit List is more monster hunting and vampire slaying and a lot less wicked sexual powers and Ardeur induced orgies. This is a good thing. The story opens up with Anita and Edward investigating a series of murders where weretigers are the victims. It seems that the Harlequin are following the orders of Marmee Noir and that they are still after Anita. The story takes place far from Jean Claude and Richard and the rest of the cast of thousands that make up Anita’s…
Bullet, Anita Blake Does Everyone-Again
Laurell K Hamilton likes to write porn-and judging from the format of her latest Anita Blake book, she must like watching it was well. The feel of Bullet is standard porn style, a bit of plot-sex scene-a bit of plot-sex scene-forget the plot add another sex scene-a bit of plot-sex scene. For a change up from the porn plot she ends with a bit of good old fashioned Tell, Don’t Show exposition which wraps up a number of loose ends by telling us this happened, then this happened, then that happened. The End. Laurell is kind of tired of people…