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[mhalachai]

Allow me to clarify my rabidness about the Anita Blake books:

They're books. I tend to focus on the positive and the things I like in them, as I dislike to the extreme the crap that comes off a lot of the AB forums on the Internet, but that doesn't mean I'm blind to the books faults. These days, all that I read goes through the "Anita Blake fanfic" filter, so it's likely I'm looking at the books in a different way than you lot.

So here it is: As opposed to the normal sunshine and cheer that goes around here, take the opportunity to nitpick, to say what you don't like about the Anita Blake books/characters/cover art etc. Thing is, if you say you don't like something, you need to say why.

Also, feel free to comment anonymously.

ETA PS: There are now spoilers for Micah and the Danse Macabre teaser in this thread. FYI KTHNX.

Comments

[penyn-1600.livejournal.com]

I started reading the AB series with NIC, when Anita was already involved with Jean Claude and Richard and was just getting involved with Micah. You would think, because of that, that I would be more comfortable with the whole multiple relationships thing. Personally, I just find it really complicated and when I read the first couple of books in the series I found it hard to reconcile the old Anita with the new Anita. Anita, no matter what, is tough and doesn't take crap from anyone. But it feels like, in the later books, the LKH has been moving Anita into a direction that I don't think is all that realistic. And its the multiple relationship thing, so much as the sex with random supernatural men that she's not even romantically attached to. That feels sort of out of character and that's make me uncomfortable because I don't like it when a character I like is made to do something that isn't realistically within their personality to do. You know what I mean? I understand her emotional connections to Jean Claude, Richard, Micah, and even Nathaniel. Her being with each of them at the same time isn't a character violation because the fact that she cares about them is within the realm of reality. But the sex with guys that she doesn't even particularly doesn't really feel like something the old Anita or the new Anita would realistically do. So, that kind of bothers me. So, I guess you could say that I don't like the ardeur and don't see the point of it, as far as Anita's character or the plot goes.


And wasn't there a whole the original Mom of the vampires storyline that all of the sudden was brought up and then dropped like a hot potato? Or did I imagine that?

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

But the sex with guys that she doesn't even
Are you talking about Requiem? All the other guys I can think of are Jason and Asher and Damian.

But I do get your point. LIke I said in my above post, I view the books through the fanfic-writer filter -- I see what fits my plot. And in my plots, I see that Anita's not dealing with this, and she really needs to. Of course, I have her doing just that. Ahem.

oh, the MoaD storyline. I hope LKH is setting that one up for later, because I *really* want to see that villan again.

[penyn-1600.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Requiem, Jason, Asher, and Damien. It seems like she's had a real problem with becoming physical with them-Requiem because she didn't really know him that well, Jason because she considered him as just a friend, Asher same as Jason, and Damien felt too much (to her) like an abuse of power.