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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.
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.
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The religious cop-out, I think, really tops my list. I am not Christian, but I once was, and I remember the rules. Anita is supposed to be devoutly Christian - flaring crosses and all that. Now there are lots of little nitpicky details of modern sexual morality that are not clearly defined in the Bible and could be easily argued, but I'm pretty damned sure that having multiple lovers and being married to none of them, is pretty much a no-no.
Now, is this a moral problem for me, personally, as a reader of the books? Not really, within the established context of everybody being okay with it, consenting, concerned with each other's feelings, etc., etc. It works, great.
But "it works, great" as a life philosophy sort of precludes sincere devotion to a faith with fairly set and fairly strict teachings about these things, so I'm kinda sick of hearing Anita think and say it. It bugs me. Is it necessarily unrealistic? No, lots of people tend to obey the rules they like, whatever their faith may be. But LKH seems to be portraying any moral qualms Anita has, as remnants of a puritanical upbringing, and of no actual validity.
And that's . . . a cop-out, as already stated. She's made choices, and I'm not saying that they were wrong choices, but there's this saying about eating cake and having it too .. and LKH seems to want to let her character do that, and that strikes me as either sloppy character development or a big old Acme anvil of an agenda on the author's part. Or a little of both.
.. and I'd like to see more plot, less porn, really. Or at least, some plot that isn't resolved by way of porn. Sex is grand, sex is powerful, but there are other things of import in anyone's life, in any relationship more than 24 hours in duration. I'd really, one of these times, like to see Anita work some problem out with one of her guys by . . having a conversation, or having a screaming fight, or both, just so long as they do it with clothes on.