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Originally Posted by Divissima I read a few of these after you recommended them so highly, Gadget. I started with the first two in the series, then skipped forward to one of the most recent - and was a bit surprised by the sudden appearance of a lot of fairly graphic sex scenes (kind of inter-species - human/vampire/werewolf - sci-fi porn  ).... A bit like fanfic, but by the original author. |
Don't know if you gathered, but 10 books into the series, LKH introduced the "arduer" is a very blatent plot device to allow as many sex scenes as possible. LKH "runs" (in a loose sense) an official website with discussion board. It has been very entertainmening over the last year, as the "fans" have gradually voiced greater and greater disapppointment, while Laurelll has explained "when people tell me there's too much sex, that just makes me determined to put even more in the next book". It's finally reached complete meltdown - not often you see such blatant dislike between an author and her (ex-)fans. There are some interesting reviews on amazon etc. following the whole mess...
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Originally Posted by DavidJames I agree the series has gone downhill, the books just got too similar and bloated. They're still readable, but to be honest I skip over the "sex" pages ( never thought I'd say that!) |
Skipping the "sex" pages isn't a huge hardship; the problem is there's very little book left after you do so. And more frustratingly, there is no continuity anymore - there were some big developments in book 11 (Cerulean Sins) that were just completely forgotten in book 12 (Incubus Dreams). So it's hard to care what happens anymore, because it will all be ignored in the next book anyhow.
You may also find this parody of Anita Blake's
blog amusing... You'll probably need to go back a bit - it started as straight parody but has started having a half sensible plot (unlike ID...)
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Originally Posted by DavidJames I do like her Merry Gentle series though, more development and character involvement in each book. And not so much "spending 100 pages talking about having sex, then another 50 pages describing it, then another 100 pages talking about it afterwards" of the Anita Blake series |
Slightly less angsting, true. But apparently there's a pretty distasteful four-way in Book 4 (out in US)...