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

[sophonica.livejournal.com]

I was a fan of the setting, though it was more of its potential than anything else. I stopped reading at Obsidian Butterfly, because I was beginning to realise LKH had stopped exploring what she had already created and was relying on the addition of new things to keep the books alive. It's much more interesting (for me personally) when an author creates a universe, and then proves how flexible it can be without changing one iota of its groundrules.

And all this is reminding me I haven't read any good 'modern' supernatural fiction in forever.