Into and a Rant

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Hi! I'm new (obviously), but I have to be here for a reason, right? :)

I just started reading the Anita Blake books about three weeks ago. A friend of mine has been trying to get me to read them for a few years, and I never bothered to try until after the 10th issue of the comic was released. I'm only as far as Obsidian Butterfly, I just finished that one yesterday. So, if I may, I would like to state a few gripes/annoyances/confusions I have, please and thank you for putting up with me.

1. Spellcheck...for the love of god, spellcheck. I understand LKH may be busy....but shouldn't an editor catch this?


2. Why does it seem like everyone under the sun is all drooly over Jean-Claude? There's nothing impressive there - the seductive French vamp has been done before.


3. Too many blondes.


4. Anita gets sueier and sueier as the books go on - I hate it when God Mode is turned on.


5. . Her (Anita's) religion. I don't have anything against Christians...I really don't. And that's not to say AB is all uppity about it...but she is a snot when it comes to other religions (though it's mainly just been hints towards Wiccans). As for her faith...well frankly I would have thought it to have been challenged more often/in depth than it has been. But maybe that's just the WoD gamer in me talking.

There's other things. I just can't think of them right now. Honest :)

I went in knowing that the books were fluff, and not expecting a lot out of them. Anita has gotten to be, for me anyway, an unrealistic character. So largely I read the books for the secondary characters - Edward and Zerbrowski mainly, with spatterings of Jason and the wereleopards. And to an extent, I do like the way lycanthropes are handled.

That's my rant. At least for now.