Affliction

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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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…

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