Apologies guys!

[raging-muse.livejournal.com]

Sorry guys. Excuse my blunders for similar posts appearing twice, my internet was playing up something wicked. After I'd typed the first one up and clicked on the post icon the message disappeared but didn't show up, so I thought it had just been swallowed. So I carried on reading more messages on the board and wrote the second post, which did appear after I posted it. I then carried on reading more messages, it wasn't till I was checking my email later on that I was made aware of the first message appearing in these message boards. So I apologize for that!

I also apologize for not adding in warnings that I was giving away what was happening in books, my only excuse for that is once I started talking and the anger started, it didn't stop. I'll try to remember to put spoiler warnings in next time if I post something!

A final thing of note after seeing more comments on these message boards. Has anybody noticed Hamilton has had a change of heart or forgotten some rules she wrote in about her shifters? In the earlier books I seem to remember she treats "getting furry" as a disease like AIDS and that it's not good for anybody to know your a shifter.

I remember it being a big deal that if anybody found out Richard was a werewolf that he'd loose his job teaching kids and that Louis would have a similar problem if it was found out he was a wererat. My confusion comes later on in one of the recent books where she mentions one of here wereleopards, I believe it's Cherry is a nurse? (Correct me if I'm wrong on this guys). A practicing nurse as well, I gather in a hospital somewhere. If so, why is she allowed to be a nurse in the public eye and Richard/Louis can't be allowed to teach? When did it become okay in her books for the shifters to be in the human eye in the work force?

My other question is where did the AIDS/STI/disease based theory for becoming a shifter disappear from Anitaverse? This was an idea of Hamilton’s that was actually interesting back in the day when her books showed the promise of being interesting and failed. I just don't remember when this idea vanished.

Comments

[atypia.livejournal.com]

I think she's a nurse at the lycanthrope hospital.

I think the idea of it being a disease was dealt with quite a bit in The Harlequin, with the discussion of the vaccine.

[terratheelf.livejournal.com]

In one of the books I think it mentioned the hospital found out she was a lycanthrope and she was fired. It was a passing thing never mentioned again.

[ladymina.livejournal.com]

Cherry had lost her job at a real hospital years ago according to LKH /Anita but :
she is a nurse at the (secret) shifter hospital that is led by the wererat doctor Lilian(?)
And as it is a shifter hospital with shifters as the patients it shouldn't be a problem to have outed shifters as nurses, I don't think normal people are even supposed to know about the hospital and the only non-shifters and non-vamps in the know at some point were working for or related to the shifters and vamps

[ladymuttly1.livejournal.com]

Sounding like an idiot-wouldn't the public want to know about a shifter hospital? Then they could feel good that normals wouldn't get contaminated with the lycanthrope virus.

[ladymina.livejournal.com]

I think there was some explanation about fearing the actions hate groups aka Human First and HAV would take if they knew it exists and where it exists - they might have gone public with it after the Shifter coalition thing, and just kept the location secret, I am not sure
I just remember they were afraid of the kind of hate crime that also happen(ed) to abortion clinics ... - and therefore kept it hidden- can't remember if they kept hidden the fact of it's existence or just the location

[ravenhaley.livejournal.com]

I agree. The whole idea of the lycanthrope was like getting AIDS/STI but when Anita started to sleep with them it no longer matter. They are magical just like the vampires and Anita herself.

But than again Anita can no longer get any diseases because she is a human servant. So why did everything think Anita was going to become Furry in it seems every book and how did she get the lines for so many lycanthrope?

Oh wait, I forgot Anita has the most super-duper powers, develops more powers each subsequent book, until she’s the most powerful creature evah and everyone and their brothers want to have sex with her because she’s the prettiest and the mostest and the most brilliant game in town.

[artemis-rex.livejournal.com]

Whatever happened to HAV and Humans First. That was a great idea, for the supernatural community to be the targets of hate crime; plot-wise so much could have been done with that, as evidenced with BO, which is the best of the series, in my opinion.