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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[zombiexbunny.livejournal.com]

I also loved the setting. My boyfriend digs it because it's set in St. Louis, which is where he is from ;)

I enjoy the concept of vampires being citizens, running businesses, voting, etc. I agree with wickedmommy about raising zombies for a living - pretty cool. Also the college degrees, police squads, different types of shapeshifters, witches, fairies, gargoyles, trolls, and other creatures.

It's very disheartening that all that has fallen to the wayside and Anita's sex life has taken over and characters are being assassinated left and right.

While waiting on other books to show up in the mail, I started reading Lunatic Cafe.

It was crazy. All story. No sex (well except for the shapeshifter porno/snuff film).u