Anita - Setting

[dan-lian.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking a bit about LKH lately (mostly because I'm looking fora MUX or two to play in, and ran across some Anita Blake ones). I think she had a fantastic setting--it was modern without shooting into the future, it was realistic and intelligently formed, with realistic bias and prejudice. Where did that go? When did it go away?

I think LKH got to the point that she felt people knew enough about her universe, Anita's world, to not need the constant setting material, and then flung us into Anita's sex life. By doing that, I think she forgot a lot of the things she developed and where she went with it, and it's been disappointing.

What are your thoughts on it? Do you like the world, minus Anita's sex life?

Comments

[wonderbink.livejournal.com]

I posed a question earlier in this comm about why deliberate lycanthropy infection seemed to be so rare in the AB universe, when, given what one gets with it (superpowers and your own 'pack') lots of outcast/social deviant types would practically be lining up to get furry.

She does have some interesting world-building ideas, but then she ignores all the potential aspects that could be explored and just goes for sex and angst. Which is one reason why she's simultaneously so fascinating and so disappointing to me.

[frabjously.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess the Church of Eternal Life has a bit of that going on, so I don't see why there aren't werewolf groupies.