Lover of Snark

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

Hello, new member here. I recently got myself roped into LKH by reading The Harlequin. I wrote a book review about on my own journal and needless to say was curious for more. That book was probably one of the most explicit mainstream porn books I have ever read. LOL! I mean I was just so fasicinated that she would spend so much time on sex.

So I started to read the books from the very beginning and I have to say that while Anita is one MAJOR bitch with mental problems and issues, the books were still good to read.

So anyway, I have to ask you follower snarkers: When was the moment the series Jumping The Shark?

BTW, was I the only one who kinda got the feeling that the author was trying to set the scene for Anita sleeping with Edward's adopted son?

Comments

[alorarose.livejournal.com]

when NiC came out...I read it twice...because I thought I read it wrong....
I still don't remember actually reading CS (I swear I did...it was just THAT forgettable) and ID I whimpered through.

But...I'm hearing that Harlequin was actually better.....I dunno...I'm skeptical.

[sharkbytes.livejournal.com]

Hee, I felt the same way about CS. I remember it being really annoying, and then I remember not really getting the stupid title (the closest I can come is that the bed sheets were blue. Srsly.)

The Harlequin is actually much, much better. To put it in perspective, it's better than Danse Macabre, Incubus Dreams, and Cerulean Sins. I put it on par with Narcissus In Chains--not as good as the early books, but a marked improvement. Since i've been snarking the recaps of it, I've come to enjoy parts of it even more.

[alorarose.livejournal.com]

do I need to know anything about DM to read it? Cause I havn't read DM.

[sharkbytes.livejournal.com]

nope..in fact, most people haven't read it, so the few times it's relevant, i pop in the little bit of necessary explanation.

[alorarose.livejournal.com]

XD awesome.

[kerame.livejournal.com]

The character assasination is actually worse than ever. Not only of Richard (that's to be expected), but of Raphael and Edward as well.

[alorarose.livejournal.com]

;___; can we vote laurell off the Anita island?

[easol.livejournal.com]

It isn't even relevant to LKH herself -- she dropped the whole BIG DEVELOPMENTS from the end of DM.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

My darling sharkbytes, please tie me down and beg me not to buy Mistral's Kiss...cause Lick of Frost comes out this week, and I need to read MK first, and...I know! I know, but...Merry was already a slut, so...and I love Frost, cause he's all angsty and stuff...help me!!!

[sharkbytes.livejournal.com]

Don't doooooo it!!!! Merry is my secret shame, lmao. I don't even buy them, I have my mother smuggle them home for me from the library (she works there) because I just can't do it, haha.

I hate (HATE HATE HATE) to admit it, but I love Frost too! I haven't read Mistral's Kiss yet, and I was actually considering reading Lick of Frost because I can't help myself, LOL. I have to rationalize it in my mind, because with Anita, I was grossly disappointed, but with Merry, I knew good and well what to expect and what I was getting into. I might skip Mistral's Kiss altogether, and go straight to Lick of Frost =) So no Mistral!!!!!

PS: I'm in a smut-slump, and I think the little pervert on my shoulder is taking a vacation. Do you still have the link for *the* Video? If you do, can you pop it in a comment on my page? Because if that doesn't work, then absolutely nothing will!! (I still silently thank you every time I watch QAF)

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

You bet, baby!!

Okay, I may skip MK and just read Lick of Frost, too. We can be stoopid together, lol

Here's the link: http://www.xhaleslowly.com/qaf/video.html

The password info is at the top of the page, and it's the 1 Rim Job, etc vid. Also, check out the Freeek!04 vid, very hot.

I have vids stored on my hard drive as well, anytime you wanna check them out, let me know, I can upload them for you!

And you know as well as I do that QAF ROCKS!!!! :D

[easol.livejournal.com]

Harlequin was better in the sense that...

PROS: Fewer sex scenes;
a potentially creepy villain;
Nathaniel finally growing vestigial backbone;
action and some semblance of a plot;
and the moment when Rafael basically says that he'd rather screw JC than Anita, if he were even a teeny bit bi.

CONS: Edward has been turned into yet another fawning enabler;
Anita ordering murder because a man turned her down;
hinted future pedophilia;
continued abuse of Richard; sexx0rs with Donovan and Rafael;
LKH's snottiness toward a "geek film";
endless rambling conversations about having sex, not having sex, and who Anita should have sex with next;
numbing powermongering;
plot threads dropped;
potentially cool villains are wasted and hurried;
and of course, Anita generally being a thick-skilled psychowhore who is too dumb to do anything but spread her legs, and start screaming, "We gotta fight them!" whenever somebody mean shows up.

So yeah, it's better... than the books preceding it.

[alorarose.livejournal.com]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. Maybe I'll just remain in the land of denial.