Three dollars and some change

Two of the others nailed the points that drove me away from the AB series:

First, and most obnoxious to me, is the snowballing list of powers. I figure in another 2-4 books or so, she'll form a third triumverate, then use the power of the triumverate of triumverates to stage a daring raid on the Dark Mother...and then have wild, kinky sex with her! Then they'll join forces to usher in a utopia of poor widdle misunderstood monsters having wild, kinky sex! Then the universe will be destroyed, but Anita will ascend to godhood and rebirth the universe, only with no monsters, because the monsters weren't really monsters in the first place, and it'll be *our* world, and that'll be Just. So. Awesome. Because, like, Anita will be having wild, kinky god sex!

Seriously, sometimes LKH's work reads like a bad Mary Sue as written by someone who isn't getting enough (or possibly any). Sometimes it reminds me of Rice's Lestat fetish, and it crosses the line from annoying me to creeping me out.