My 19 yr old has started reading paranormal romances (adding on to her staple reading of fantasy stuff by Mercedes Lackey, et al, and mangas), and she asked about the Anita Blake series. I told her well, the early ones are fine, I enjoyed those; but the last several books are like the worst fanfic pwps ever, it's like the all-porn, all-the-time channel and it's not even good porn. Sigh. Don't know what the heck happened to that series but someone gave me her last few books in hardback and they're still sitting on my shelf, I will read a few pages and that's all I can stomach at one go.