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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

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

It forces her to have sex, whether she likes to or not. There is nothing romantic or arousing about it, at least not in my book.

You have just hit upon a plot angle I am planning to address in a fic-to-be-named-later -- Yes, Anita was having sex with JC and with Richard before the ardeur. She would probably have gotten around to Nathaniel at some point. What she would *not* have done is sleep with stranger-Micah. Or Jason. Or those guys in ID I won't name just in case you get around to reading it. Or, in my opinion, even Asher. I have no problems with the sex -- I just *wish* LKH would have Anita deal with this reversal in her life. Please? Oh well. That's why I write fanfic.

And um, if you loathe the sex, be warned on ID.

[maeglinyedi.livejournal.com]

Yes, Anita was having sex with JC and with Richard before the ardeur.

Yep, and I loved that in the earlier books, that whole love-triangle, because it was made up of Anita's choices. LKH showed us how Anita came to those choices and how she tried dealing with the consequences. And that makes for interesting material to read, methinks.

What she would *not* have done is sleep with stranger-Micah.

God, yes. That whole scene in NiC freaked me out. Micah practically raped her in the shower (and I don't mind non-con in fiction. I read and write it), but the aftermath just sucked. Here some guy she'd never met before fucked her though she'd told him no a few times, and what does Anita do? She opens her arms, her legs and her house to him, though she knows nothing about him other than that he has a big cock and claims to be mated to her or whatever.

Please. The Anita I got to know in earlier books would have blown his head off. She wouldn't have blown him. *g*

That's what I really dislike about the whole ardeur plot. Anita is forced into doing things she'd normally not do, but her responses to it just don't make any sense compared to the Anita from earlier books.