Oh, for G-d's sake....

[ysobelle]

One thing I always find myself doing when I read the latest Anita Blake novel is wondering why, exactly, I'm reading the latest Anita Blake novel. I may go into my musings at length later, but for now, let me just share this gem with you: I'm at the climactic battle of "good" vamps vs "evil" vamps. The fate of our heroine and everyone she loves-- or at least everyone with whom she's having insane, metaphysical sex-- hangs in the balance. They're all in a church packed with lesser vampires, fighting a largely unrealised and shallowly-painted "bad guy" over vast amounts of power, wielding pain and torture like psychic broadswords. And what do our little crew of vamps and werewolves and various other freaks do? They stop in the middle of the war to have The Great Relationship Talk.

Why do I do this to myself?

Comments

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

Because the first five books were readable. And then everyone got the bait and switch, when the quality plummeted faster than a Wile E. Coyote cliff scene. Since you already had started reading the series, you somehow feel obligated to continue, in the faint, but futile hope that somehow, the books will return to their former level of quality.

[laurensa.livejournal.com]

Haven't read the books, don't plan to, and think I would seriously have to throw them against the wall.

Of course, I did do that with "Outlander", after Jamie Frasier's "throbbing manhood" was mentioned just one time too many...

historical fiction my left foot!

[grinning-fox.livejournal.com]

I had a similar problem with that one. I think these things must be written by people who never get laid or something...although it's nice to have a good excuse to hurl mostly harmless things at walls, I suppose.

[irishcoyote.livejournal.com]

When else did you expect that to happen.

'swhy I'm happy reading Merry Gentry instead.

[silverstah.livejournal.com]

The same reason I spent an hour reading the latest DRAHMA on the IWG boards last night. It's like a train wreck - you want to look away, but you just CAN'T.

[deedeet06.livejournal.com]

IAWTC. Made of WIN! :)

[tempest-gypsy.livejournal.com]

I am so VERY amused by the same thing, as well as the number of suprisingly coherent conversations Laurell K. Hamilton's heroines have in the middle of all that hot, intenst, metaphysical sex. Cracks me the hell up!

Try the Merry Gentry series. I get a bigger kick out of them.

I'm not the only one who thought that?

[eidolana.livejournal.com]

I just finished the book two days ago and thought the same thing...lol I need a new book now.

[grinning-fox.livejournal.com]

That's a good question. I have a shot gun kicking around here somewhere if you need to borrow it; using books for target practice makes it wicked hard to keep tormenting yourself with them ;) Ethan and I blew up a couple of his college books that he wasn't able to sell back (due to them being out dated) a couple of years ago. A truly awesome experience, I gotta tell ya!