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Dec 7 2009 no comments Anita Blake Fiction Reading

I’m going to forego the usual life-drama that tends to crop up after posts like last time (involving the friend in the aforementioned post), and instead, go right on to talking about Anita Blake.

I’ve been reading the series for quite a while now, and within the first few books I was hooked– she had this way of making all this preternatural stuff seem simply amazing, but soon… it kind of dwindled into something else.

The last book I read that I actually found so good I couldn’t put it down was Obsidian Butterfly, but to be fair I’m kind of partial to stories that involve Edward, because he’s my favourite little sociopath ever. Regardless, the story didn’t revolve around how many people Miss Blake could ride in a single book, or around trying to justify all that by some new supernatural stuff going on in her life.

I’m onto Incubus Dreams now, and I find myself wading through sex scene after sex scene (which, in their own right, are ‘attractive’ enough, but there’s too many of them), just to get to the underlying point of the story. So far all I know is that there are serial murders going on and that’s about all they’ve touched up on for that part of the story as a whole, instead focusing on her banging new men and bringing new powers onto her Mary Sue becoming self.

What I find completely atrocious is that, within this last book, she has slept with no less than four men and I’m barely halfway through– FOUR MEN. I understand her ‘needs’ because of the ardeur and all that, but she isn’t even done with the book yet and she’s already had more sexual partners than most single women have in a month– in days. Let alone the fact that she’s dating three or four different men, which I could get past if it weren’t for the fact that the men she’s sleeping with are not all her beaus. It’s taken her sexual deviant attitude to a whole new level. The only reason I’m still wading through these books is I have it on good authority she’s stopped this in some of the newest ones. Though I believe I still have four or so to go through before that was even hinted at.

Regardless, I applaud Laurell K. Hamilton for attempting to make a powerful female character who isn’t totally a complete feminist and has some kind of ability to be flexible, but abhor the fact that the books have become nothing more than a sexual playground for her fantasies. And people give Twilight a bad rap.

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