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?

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[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

My public confession -- I've only ever read the first book, on gleeful and repeated berating recommendation from a friend, and I didn't like it very much. But yes, the setting/the world was the most imaginative and best part, for me -- it made me respect Hamilton, raised her above the "fluff" level, a bit.

(And my heart did sincerely break for Philip, when she raised him and he was all confused... but I think I might have been more into bishounen then... ^__^)

Judging from online excerpts, though, this seems to have gone completely by the wayside, and that's really a shame. The pregnancy scare in particular just bored me to tears, tears I tell you. I can flip on any given soap and see that, what's interesting about that? I wanted more of the unique politics and government and class warfare and crap!!

(Yes, yes, I know, it's not my series, I don't get to decide what it focuses on. *grumbles quietly*)