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

[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.