I don't do this thanksgiving crap, but...

[briarwood]

Thank you, Laurell K Hamilton, for confirming that my decision to quit reading Anita Blake was indeed very wise.

If you care what I'm talking about, it's her blog entry:

http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/index.php/site/Down_the_Rabbit_Hole/

And I thought I had trouble with plot!

Comments

[nerthus.livejournal.com]

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.

[morgan32.livejournal.com]

For me the problem with paranormal romance tends to be, well, the romance. I'm all for love and sex, but I don't like heroines who have that "nothing without a man" crap going. That was the appeal of Anita, initially: she was so much more than that. Now, she's even less than that. Sad.

I love Kat Richardson's Greywalker novels: I guess that's more urban fantasy than paranormal romance - the heroine is a PI with a weird talent, and she has a love life but it's very much in the background. Good stuff.

[nerthus.livejournal.com]

I'll have to check those out; that's one series I haven't gotten round to yet!