Has anyone else read the Anita Blake series By Laurell K Hamilton? How do you feel about the turn the series has taken?
Has anyone else read the Anita Blake series By Laurell K Hamilton? How do you feel about the turn the series has taken?
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I’m tired of Anita’s constant insecurity repeated over and over. I’m ok with the relationships and all the sex, but like everyone else, I’d like it to get back to the work a little/lot more.
I was really into the books around 10 years ago. I read as far as book 16 then abandoned it. Recently I decided to reread the series and have gotten to the 10th book, but I’m a little tired of it. I’ve realized that I really dislike the character of Anita, and while there are a few characters I do like and care about (mostly Jason and Nathaniel) I don’t think I’m going to make myself continue with the series. The storylines get really repetitive and while the first few books are decent, it goes downhill pretty quickly and turns from a fun paranormal mystery into erotica, which isn’t my genre. Plus it’s annoying as heck how every person in the series is in love with the least likable character.
I loooooved the first 10 or so books. I thought Anita was such a kicksss character. Then it turned to nonstop orgies and i stopped reading them. Real shame.
I keep buying them. They’re so repetitious and formulaic at this point and quite honestly all that polyamory and sex business has gotten old and boring. And yet I still buy them. I think it’s because there are still parts of her books that suck me into her dark world. When shes writing about the magic and mayhem I still love her.
It’s funny when I bring the series up to other people I pretty much get the same reply. That they read until the 10th book and then gave up, much for the same reasons given. I had begun the series a few years back and really enjoyed it personally it was refreshing to read about a kick-ass female heroine. That is until the 10th book and I gave up for the same reason. I have no problem with a woman who is sexually independent, but when the series goes from horror/ fantasy to badly written soft core porn that was it for me.
I have read every single Anita novel published as a physical book. Now I can understand why the shift would annoy people, but it never really bothered me. I do have some issues with people making assumptions without having read all the books. Now I freely admit that the series does foray into the soft core porn arena for a few books, but not as many as people think, also Anita as a character is changing due to her ties with Jean Claude and Nathaniel in particular and the others to a lesser degree. At some level all relationships cause some change to the people involved. Another thing to keep in mind is that writers use their own experiences when writing (as I writer myself, unpublished as yet, I know this). I follow Laurell’s blog, and her life was changing.
I like the way the series is going is the upshot. Also I suggest that if you have enjoyed the series to give it some more time, it does start getting back to more mystery and less prn. 🙂
I have read all of her books, and I enjoyed them all. She had a sexual freedom tangent for a few novels but she got back on track.
I read both Anita Blake and Merry Gentry. I stopped reading both because I wanted a story not porn. But! Merry was pregnant. When A Sliver of Light came out I had to
read it to learn about the babies. There was 4 years between books and I fell back into the series easily due to the endless repetition of previous stories and repetition from the current book. Took 3/4 of the book to start the new story line. Done and done.