"Tiresome sex" and the Anita Blake series.

[modernwizard]

Apparently the Anita Blake series started off interesting and slid into porn. For example, an Amazon reviewer savages Narcissus in Chains, a midstream book in the series, as follows: "This book brings in a new character, the male Nimir-Raj of another were-leopard pack, with whom Anita immediately has sex. And there's mental sex, virtual sex, interspecies sex... it gets downright tiresome. You never knew sex could be this boring." HAH!

Maybe I should go back and read some of the earlier books in the series? I keep confusing them with Nancy Collins' Sonja Blue series, which memorably has vampire protagonist at odds with her vampirism, personified as a sleek and crazy killer that squats in her mind and talks to her under its breath. I would reread Collins again just for Sonja's internal dialogs.

Comments

[ashbet]

NiC is an AWFUL book -- I highly unrecommend it (if that's not a word, it should be!)

I enjoyed the earlier Anita Blake books, up to "Obsidian Butterfly", but after that, they turn into OMG PRETERNATURAL SEX FRENZYYY and not in a good way -- also, she REPEATS HER ADJECTIVES from book to book, which annoys the fuck out of me. I'm not buying the Anita Blake books anymore, although I still check them out of the library.

OTOH, I'm very much enjoying the Meredith Gentry books and recommend them highly.

With any of LKH's books, it's important to read them in order -- otherwise, each one contains massive spoilers for the ones before.

-- A :)