"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.

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[sailorzeo.livejournal.com]

If you're interested, I have all the books up to....oh, I don't remember, but I think I'm three behind. If you want them, they're yours. All hardbacks; the first 8 books were originally released in paperback, but I got them in three combined book-club editions.

And yeah, once they devolved into porn-fests, I lost interest. Hamilton used to have actual PLOT, and now it's just "How many people can Anita screw and then angst over?"