Hi peoples!

[wonderbink.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm a newbie, here via Fandom Wank. But I'm so thrilled to find a place that feels the way I do about the increasing silliness of Laurell K. Hamilton's books.

I just finished reading A Stroke of Midnight, the most recent Merry Gentry book, which I borrowed from the library because there's no way I'm paying money for that crap.

So here's my question: is there anybody here who reads her work the way I've taken to reading it--not in the hopes that it will magically get better, but for the sheer entertainment value in how ridiculous it's going to get? The way one giggles over watching, say, an Ed Wood movie? Or is it just me?

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[dwg.livejournal.com]

Eehhh...I'd be happier if Andias was shown being the big nasty bitch she's meant to be. To me, she's been something of a let down (like with most of the LKH villains) in that there's all this hype about how OMFG SO EBIL she is, and then she sort of waltzes into the scene, gets bitchy, angsts and moans, and then flits off. All the while reinforcing that Merry Is Obviously The Heroine And Everything Not Her Way Is WRONG.

Dammit, if you're going to have a sadistic bitch in charge, let her be a sadistic bitch.

[wonderbink.livejournal.com]

Well, she ends the most recent book *SPOILER ALERT* holding somebody by the intestines, so she's still pretty fucking sadistic. But she has to have some vaguely redeeming qualities so that Meredith will actually have a shot at the throne--if she were pure evil, Meredith would be dead and we wouldn't have any pr0n books in the first place.

[gilded_lady]

Oh I totally read it for the train wreck factor.

What I want to know is...(SPOILER warning, text in white) if Anita is really pregnant, who is the father, or is she going to be chicken shit and have it just be a scare or will she miscarry. But really, it's so fabulously awful that I still enjoy it, even if I skip over the (increasingly numerous) sex scenes. Plus, I'm wondering what other powers she could possibly give her heroine.

[randomsome1.livejournal.com]

Wings. Every Sue needs wings.

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

Colour-changing eyes. (Oh, wait. That was covered in Obsidian Butterfly.)

A cutesy animal sidekick.

A secretly noble/royal background.

Oh, and an evil identical twin.

Other than that...I think she's hit every Sue cliche in the book.

[gilded_lady]

I think you could almost argue the exsistance of the Pard as the cutesy animal sidekick. (Well, they can be cutesy when they do big cuddle fest)

If Anita had an evil identical twin, wouldn't she be more likely to be a perfect angel?