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

[oui-je-danse.livejournal.com]

The prejudices and negative social ramifications were the best part. They're not (in most of the U.S.) actively hunted and killed for being what they. Yey neither are they accepted or acceptable. Like prostitutes who aren't coffin bait and hiring discrimination against werewolves. You don't get the cool stuff without personal and social drawbacks. That is, until everyone got Mary Sued to all hell. The setting had a good mood to it. It wasn't way overblown or super full of itself.