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Mar. 14th, 2006 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mhalachaiAllow 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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Date: 2006-03-15 03:42 am (UTC)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.