See... I can't even watch True Blood because as much as I adore mindless trashy campy fun, watching Sookie and Bill puts me to sleep. I can only imagine how horrible it would be to be trapped for an entire book in her point of view. That must be what hell is like.
There are ELEVEN books (and a bunch of short stories). I stalled in chapter 4 of book 2.
In contrast I have read 17 Anita Blake books.
I like True Blood, but I can see why the pairing is a bit meh. I mainly watch the show for Jason (who is boring in the books), Hoyt (whos is boring in the books), Jessica (who doesn't exist in the books), Lafayette (who is killed off super quick in the books) and both the Bellfleurs (who are boring and unfunny in the books).
Holy shit. There are 17 Anita Blake books now? That's... sort of awesome. I have to hand it to Laurel Hamilton. She's a total hack writer, but she must be tapping into something to sell that much of a series.
I think I only read up through Obsidian Butterfly, mostly because even though she went to another town and didn't have the usual lame suspects around, she *still* ended up in an S&M vampire bar with some vamp lady trying to have sex with her, lol.
The last one I saw in a bookstore, I read the cover jacket which was about Anita maybe being pregnant and I couldn't stop laughing. I admit, I almost bought that one, because it sounds like one seriously awesome trainwreck of a story, lol.
I really wonder who the hell is still reading her series at this point. I mean, if you go over to Amazon and look a the user reviews of every book after Obsidian Butterfly, it's review after review of people of people who are bitter and frothing about how much this series sucks now. I'd love to see her sales numbers and see if there's a decline or if she just found a new audience who really like never ending boring sex with no plot.
Obsidian Butterfly was actually one of the better books in the series, mostly because she left St. Louis and all of her man meat behind. In the part of the book I read, there wasn't even any sex at all, plus it was about Edward, who was the only person I could stand in the series by that time so there was an actual, honest to god plot. But still, she had to go fuck it up and *force* Anita to dress up in S&M gear and go make out with some lady vampire, at which point I just couldn't take the stupid anymore and bailed.
I read the one with the pregnancy scare, it turned out to be a false positive because she has umpteen million types of super special lycanthropy in her.
How many Lyconthropes are in the series now? Like there were at least three kinds when I stopped reading (Rats, Wolves and Leopards). I have to believe that there must be more by now, and Anita is queen of all of them since she gains at least one super shiny special power just about every single book.
Nope, they are called "swanmanes" and they are different from other shapeshifters but I don't remember why exactly. I think Anita banged the swanking at one point and he changed form during.
I am laughing so hard right now, my tummy hurts. I can't decide if that's the most idiotic thing ever, or sort of gloriously awesome in it's own silly way.
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In contrast I have read 17 Anita Blake books.
I like True Blood, but I can see why the pairing is a bit meh. I mainly watch the show for Jason (who is boring in the books), Hoyt (whos is boring in the books), Jessica (who doesn't exist in the books), Lafayette (who is killed off super quick in the books) and both the Bellfleurs (who are boring and unfunny in the books).
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I think I only read up through Obsidian Butterfly, mostly because even though she went to another town and didn't have the usual lame suspects around, she *still* ended up in an S&M vampire bar with some vamp lady trying to have sex with her, lol.
The last one I saw in a bookstore, I read the cover jacket which was about Anita maybe being pregnant and I couldn't stop laughing. I admit, I almost bought that one, because it sounds like one seriously awesome trainwreck of a story, lol.
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I really wonder who the hell is still reading her series at this point. I mean, if you go over to Amazon and look a the user reviews of every book after Obsidian Butterfly, it's review after review of people of people who are bitter and frothing about how much this series sucks now. I'd love to see her sales numbers and see if there's a decline or if she just found a new audience who really like never ending boring sex with no plot.
Obsidian Butterfly was actually one of the better books in the series, mostly because she left St. Louis and all of her man meat behind. In the part of the book I read, there wasn't even any sex at all, plus it was about Edward, who was the only person I could stand in the series by that time so there was an actual, honest to god plot. But still, she had to go fuck it up and *force* Anita to dress up in S&M gear and go make out with some lady vampire, at which point I just couldn't take the stupid anymore and bailed.
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