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Wow. I've been away from this guild for awhile. Got a lot of catching up to do.

Honestly, I love the Anita Blake world. The books? Well not so much anymore. Anita Blake used to be awesome, and still is in earlier books. I was fine with the sex, until it began to replace the plot. I wonder if things'll change in this new book? Maybe so. I still have to finsih the last book "The Harlequin." Although, now I'm half way tempted to skip it. Sure, Anita Blake is awesome, her world and her earlier character, but now. Well it's all sex, and she's basically a Merry Sue character now. She's on her way to becoming a Goddess of that world.

However, this next book will have Jason. I love Jason, he's such a fun character! Hopefully it won't just be about the ******** and mommy dearest, hopefully he really will have a role in this. It'll be interesting to see how he interacts with his family.

I so agree about loving the world and the earlier books. The ONLY reason I picked up the Harlequin was because I'd heard Edward was back. Usually when Edward is present there's less sex, more killing, and more plot.

I love Jason, he's a fantastic character but I'm so ******** sick and tired of the sex taking over most of the book. I remember the first several books there was her personal life story line and then the crime she was working on. There hasn't been a crime with RPIT that she's been working on for almost three books, and if the chapters I've read for Blood Noir are any gauge there's not going to be a crime that's police type in this book either. I may read the book at the library, but I'm done buying the AB books.

Laurell has taken the sex too far, and the fact that she gets all defensive when her original fan base shows it's distaste for all the sex just solidifies that she's not going to go back to crime thrillers, they're going to stay in the romance section.

Right, but my beef isn't with the characters, it's with their creator. Laurell K Hamilton has alienated her original fanbase and tries to explain it away as Anita being her camera into a world. I will admit that a character does take on a life of their own, but you can still decide what aspects of a character you'll show within the confines of a book. I have a problem with LKH deciding that sex is more important than character development, plot, tying up plot lines, or making sure her readers know who's who in the Anita Blake world.

When LKH first introduced the sex scenes I really didn't have a problem with it, it was one sex scene a book and it lasted maybe 5 pages out of several hundred. Now her books easily have a majority of their pages discussing sex, depicting sex, or explaining how something isn't a sexual look or touch though it could be.

I feel that Laurell is trying to cover the lack of plot development or the tying up of loose ends by giving Anita new powers and introducing Marmee Noir. We're three books into Marmee and we still don't really know who she is or what she wants with Anita or Jean Claude.

I'll probably continue to read the series, but I'm done giving Laurell my money when her books aren't as good now as they used to be.

But u have to take into account that LKH did refrain from writing every detail of every sex scene! (says a prayer of thanks for that one) And really there was not much actual sex in the book, just talk of, but that actually led into the plot at times.

I don't think Anita is actually going to be feeding off anger. I mean, if she is well; it wasn't written like that to me. It just seemed to me that she took back her rage from Richard, and that's the end of that.
But I really dunno, maybe you're right and i'm way off.
And I know, Richard having his own Ardeur, that was a complete shocker.
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