I don't read the Anita Blake series. I just... don't. I think I managed about 2 1/2 of the novels before I just stopped. Not my cup of tea. This was before Laurell K. Hamilton's series dissolved into unremitting porn, so I've always wondered what it was about the books that just turned me off. Was it the characters? The plot? The writing?
While flying somewhere,
miome picked up a book in another one of Laurell K. Hamilton's series. The book is called "A Lick of Frost" and is about, I kid you not, a fairy princess. Seriously. So far this is pretty much the entire plot of the book. "There is INTRIGUE and POLITICS. Then some people try to MURDER the fairy princess. But she ESCAPES! After she ESCAPES, she and her HOT BODYGUARDS who are sworn to PROTECT HER talk. And then they have SEX. Then there is more talking and it is DEEP AND MEANINGFUL. Then there is more SEX. ALL of her 20+ bodyguards LOVE HER because of the AWESOMENESS OF HER VAGINA."
I'm still in the middle of the part where she is having sex. It seems like she's been having sex for the last 100+ pages. It also seems that there is going to be even more sex before the damn book is over. What's even worse is that all these events? Take place in the space of one day. I feel like I'm back in the middle of Vagrant Story and am pondering when this chick has time to eat and pee between everything else shoved into her day.
I think sheer perversity is the only thing keeping me reading this. That, and Laurell K. Hamilton does not have a bad writing style. The writing itself is actually enjoyable to read. I think it's her characters and plot that are killing it for me.
After this, I'm just going to make it a point to give her stuff a miss.
EDIT: And then fucking rose petals fell wherever she tread?
Give me a break.