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

[electra310.livejournal.com]

I love the setting, it's one reason I stuck with the Anita Blake books so long after they were obviously getting crappy. My friends and I started up an Anitaverse RP, but one that takes place far, far away from Saint Louis, so that it's highly unlikely that any canon characters will ever show up. It's been funny trying to puzzle out the mechanics of things that LKH never really explained, or explained once and then explained totally differently after she lost the sticky note. We basically cut off the canon after Obsidian Butterfly or so, because things got so inconsistent (and none of the mods wanted to comb the books for the world information like we did with the early ones).

It's a shame that there's such a cool world out there, and all we ever see is the view from between Anita's legs.

[wickedmommy.livejournal.com]

It's a shame that there's such a cool world out there, and all we ever see is the view from between Anita's legs.

I couldn't agree more!

Totally OT...

[catskin.livejournal.com]

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