Incubus Dreams

[vierran45]

As I said already, I really really dislike the direction Hamilton's Anita Blake series is taking. Incubus Dreams is the 12th book in the series, but it seems to be all sex and no plot :P. The "story" consists mostly of Anita stumbling from one supernatural emergency to another where the only solution that she screw someone, anyone, doesn't matter

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[dawntreader717]

Are you serious??? UGH!!! I haven't heard that about Laurell. What a stupid, moronic, as you said juvenile thing to do!!! I'm really upset about that. I might just not even bother to continue to read the series. And it was so good too. Hope she's happy :-P To spite the fans means to make them mad = less sales. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.

[vierran45]

Yeah, unfortunately I'm serious :P. Just check this interview at Amazon.com:

A quote from the interview:
Amazon.com: Besides being action-filled and entertaining, your books tend to have a large amount of sex. What's the link between the undead and eroticism?
Hamilton: In my books, the reason the eroticism is so high is that people in the publishing industry were disturbed by erotic content. Not for its own sake, but because I was a woman writing from a first-person woman's point of view. Had I been a man, they would have been okay with it. The erotic content has risen because they told me it shouldn't only because I am a woman writing about a woman. It's what my grandmother calls being contrary. (the emphases mine)

I'm just hoping she feels she made her point with this book (which was pretty bad!) and will reduce the sex to a manageable level with the next one. I'm really hoping so, because I liked the series before it turned to soft-porn!!!

[dawntreader717]

Ok this is ridiculous. I love going to this site called The Movie Spoiler. They have now started a Book Spoiler site. The new Anita book was there. I read it. I didn't really know what was going on as I haven't read the last couple books, but just look at it! Incubus Dreams
Almost every paragraph ends with...and they have sex. She slept with like 5 different guys in the book! This is getting ridiculous. I think I'm going to have to end the series with what I have. They are quite good thank you and I have no intention of paying good money to see a great character as Anita be dumbed down to having sex everywhere. Yes I do enjoy a romance novel now and again. But they are supposed to have that in there. This is taking an intelligent, ass-kicking female heroine and just ruining it. I'm so mad at Laurell right now.

[vierran45]

Unfortunately that's a pretty accurate summary of what goes on in ID. I guess you can now understand why I've been so upset about the direction the series is taking. Narcissus in Chains and Cerulean Sins were still sort of ok, though the trend started in them with the introduction of the ardeur (a vampiric power/curse which requires Anita to have regular sex), but ID was just all sex and with all these men (vamps/shifters, whatever) that hadn't ever even appeared in the series before.

I think I'll still give the next book a try when it comes out, but if this continues, I won't continue reading them.