I had given up hope on this series around the time of Narcissus in Chains. The last book, Harlequin (i think that was the title), seemed to drop much of the gratuitous sex scenes and seemed much more like the early books. It piqued my interest in the series again.
Xander
04-07-08, 02:22 PM
Pretty much how I felt after reading Harlequin, miyu. Was pleasantly surprised. :) So I'll be looking forward to this one.
xmiyux
04-07-08, 02:28 PM
Yeah the Anita Blake series had gotten bad.
I don't mind erotica at all but to see the series degenerate to that bummed me out. The Merry Gentry series started out more risque and i expected that and could deal with it. I felt the Anita Blake character though was being destroyed.
Hopefully she continues with the decent writing for this new one and doesn't make Blake the shallow succubus character she was becoming.
celmendo
04-08-08, 11:48 AM
I completely agree with everything said. It went WAY too far into written porn. A little is nice and served the story but an entire book of it was boring and I almost gave up on the series too.
The last one was almost like sweeps week on TV. What I mean by that is almost all the characters from previous books made a "guest appearance". It started to get funny. Who's the next character to pop up?
And it was almost two hundred pages before the sex happened. I really enjoyed it and read the whole thing on my day off.
I have reserved high hopes for this one.
FunkDaddy J
04-08-08, 12:45 PM
I just needed to come in here and defend "gratuitous sex scenes." What the hell is with all the porn bashing? :)
xmiyux
04-08-08, 01:02 PM
I just needed to come in here and defend "gratuitous sex scenes." What the hell is with all the porn bashing? :)
Have you read the books? The series started out with a decent storyline and neat world. It had just enough sex and sexy to be titillating. After like 4 or 5 books however the illating was removed and it started to get more tawdry. I didn't even mind it so much then, but i don't mind reading some erotica. Then the series got bad. It got to the point where you would read like 300 pages and the storyline as a whole would advance maybe a day or two and very little happened. I know one of the books i simply got bored of the gratuitous sex scenes (because it was the same thing as all the other books) and would find myself flipping forward like 10-12 pages just to skip one scene. It got pretty absurd.
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