More bookish things

[daemonluna]

So, I just finished the Anita Blake story in Cravings, which it turns out is the first three chapters of Incubus Dreams, the latest one. It took me a couple minutes poking around online to figure that out, but it just didn't feel like a short story. I finally tracked down confirmation in this interview. (Not-so-sekrit message for channel_force: she is eventually planning another Edward-centric book.) Incubus Dreams is on hold for me at the library, so we'll see how that goes. Though I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to do some rereading first. Maybe I'll start at the very beginning. I'm planning on putting the Halloween decorations away, but spending the rest of the weekend curled up with completely gratuitous reading. Ie, nothing I'm reviewing, or even just storing away in the back of my head for later in a very tangled mental web of reader's advisory type links.

Anita Blake books would be by free association something like adult-vampires-smutty-alternate history not pseudo-medieval worldbuilding-long series-tenuous mystery/crime-horror-if you like Tanya Huff-maybesorta if you like the Kushiel books because of the BDSM content-gay characters-genre. The last book I reviewed got mentally filed under upper elementary-young ya-Canadian-romance-historical-1950s-holocaust a step removed-Jewish chars-prejudice-girl book-if you like Dear Canada etc.

Want to go home and curl up on the couch with hot chocolate and a book. Although I would undoubtedly end up with a small cat chewing on my head, as she's been doing lately. (Literally! On my head!)

Ah, well. Back to work.

Comments

[jetwolf.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just me, but I've long since stopped caring about the Anitaverse. She's a Mary Sue of the worst kind. Maybe if she'd stop having sex with absolutely every male she came across (while still touting her high morals ... I dunno how that works), I might become interested again. But at this point, I read an Anita Blake noval and I feel cheap and dirty. I can spend less for a Harlequin novel or something.

The last book that even remotely held my interest was the one with Edward ... the one man she actually hasn't had sex with, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time. And now I'm going to a scary visual place with long-barrelled guns and eep.

[alessar.livejournal.com]

I pretty much agree; I was reading them for the mystery, not the sex. I just stopped buying them... I'll borrow other people's copies though.

I still recommend Jim Butcher's Dresden files. The main character got laid one time that I can think of in the entire series. It's more of a magical action-mystery story. Kinda like Hellblazer, but without the booze and smokes. XD

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

I just stopped buying them... I'll borrow other people's copies though.

Get them from the library!!! *g*

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

I think she's written herself into a corner. Yeah, there's all the sex, and there's the fact that Anita's got omnipotent newbie syndrome and is way too powerful. It was much more interesting when she was on the edge between the human and supernatural worlds. There's way too many extraneous characters running around, too. I'll still pick 'em up from the library, because I'm still sorta interested, and they're good junk-food reading, but yeah, it's getting a bit much.