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[mrs-havok-.livejournal.com]

Hi, I am new here. My name is Samantha. Over the last 2 months I'd say, I read books 2 through Danse Macabre. I didn't plan it like that; a friend lent me The Laughing Corpse and that is where I started. I must say, when the sex began...in book 5, I was happy and even more happy that is was with Jean-Claude. However, like you all, I noticed the downward spiral into sexville after Obsidian Butterfly. Now, I went back and am reading the very first book that I never read. I can't believe it is the same author! I see plot! I see character development! I care about Anita again. 

Is all lost? I guess you could call me optimistic but do any of you think there is any hope for our dear LKH to start writing how she used to write..? I hope so. 

-samantha

p.s. The things you ladies and gents do with her blogs are hilarious, especially the last one with the cave men having sex. haha

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[dwg.livejournal.com]

Hate to dash your hopes, Samantha (wilkommen, btw) but LKH has taken the corpse of Hope, raped and sodomised it, then put it on a pike outside her Ivory Tower as a warning to all that the series is no longer going to be about a girl kicking butt, but rather, happy naked people (http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/08/why-sex.html).

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I'm tempted to bail on the fandom, but...well, then I'd have nowhere to vent, very little to mock and nothing to hold up as the epitome of everything I refuse to embody.

[mrs-havok-.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had never read that particular blog; it boarders on depressing. How can she not understand that sex is good...but sex and plot together is so much sweeter? I am sad now but thank you for responding and sharing.

[ladyravana.livejournal.com]

*stares, agape*

She doesn't understand that you can balance sex with plot?

That post made me cringe. Literally.

*whimpers*

I'm sorry, but after ID, I couldn't take any more. DM could leave permanent mental scars.I ain't going near it. *shudders*

Fortunately, Kim Harrison has proven to be a wonderful balm. The Rachel Morgan books comfort me. *sighs and huggles my Kim Harrison books close* Oh, that's what the Anita Blake series COULD have been! If only!

[catskin.livejournal.com]

I just finished Fistful of Charms and almost wept for joy at how good it was compared to the last LKH book I read. But now part of me is neurotically waiting for the rot to set into Rachel Morgan too...

*prays Anita is not contagious*

[cherith.livejournal.com]

I read Fistful of Charms back to back with Incubus Dreams. It was sad. Very sad. I was even more frustrated at LKH after realizing what other people can do (what she used to do!).

[ladyravana.livejournal.com]

*prays Anita is not contagious*

...I'm right there with you. I pray to whatever Diety is listening the rot doesn't set into Rachel Morgan the way it has Anita Blake...

So far. So good.

[ladyravana.livejournal.com]

Know something else? It REALLY terrifies me that the line "happy naked people" was actually IN THAT POST.

*shudders and flinches*

Somebody, lock her up and throw away the key to spare us the horror that this series has become. Please, please, PLEASE. For the love of God.

[jperceval.livejournal.com]

Nothing short of a lobotomy and a divorce will save Anita from LKH's delusions.

[dinsedaledarby.livejournal.com]

LKH has lost her mind and there is no retrieving it. :( We are doomed to be bashed over the head with teh sex-fu.

by the way I have that Amelie icon. :)

[dinsedaledarby.livejournal.com]

occasionally? :)

[allova.livejournal.com]

p.s. The things you ladies and gents do with her blogs are hilarious, especially the last one with the cave men having sex. haha

Aww, thank you ^_^


Also, welcome. We feel your pain. I recently reread Guilty Pleasures and The Laughing Corpse and was amazed - I'd completely forgotten that there was a time when the Anita Blake books had a wicked sense of humour (along with plot, character, sexual tension etc.)