[identity profile] dragon-mouse.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] lkh_lashouts
Not sure if this particular review (bash? rant? ramble of what we're all thinking?) of Micah has been posted, but I hadn't read it before, so if this is a double of a prev. post, blame it on my sleep-induced double vision. :D

http://bambamentries.blogspot.com/2006/03/micah-by-laurell-k-hamilton.html

Date: 2006-03-20 06:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bleedtoblue.livejournal.com
LOL...thanks for sharing that....

Date: 2006-03-20 07:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsula.livejournal.com
"... I totally ripped off Blue Steel and I practice it in the mirror at least a hundred times a day!”

5000 points for referencing Blue Steel

Date: 2006-03-20 07:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randomsome1.livejournal.com
I'm still trying to figure out why at one point she said she kinda liked it.

Date: 2006-03-20 08:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cicipsychobunny.livejournal.com
See, I think I understand it. It was just so refreshing for there to actually be *plot*, and interaction with characters which doesn't lead straight to sex, and hell, even referencing a character from Obsidian Butterfly was nifty. So on a purely compared-to-Incubus-Dreams basis, it was ok.
Of course, it also contained the line "But I'm wet. I'm so wet. You've made me so wet", from which there is no redemption.

Date: 2006-03-20 08:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randomsome1.livejournal.com
Three cheers for redundancy, in a way?

I think I'm gonna start telling myself that she and Anne Rice are really in a secret competition to see who can act the most insane and write the most terribly, yet still sell the most books.

Date: 2006-03-20 10:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sailorcoruscant.livejournal.com
It's not much of a secret. Everyone knows it but them.

Date: 2006-03-20 11:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] troubleinchina.livejournal.com
I do remember reading an appaling little short RPS fic with the two of them as lovers.

It worked.

In a sick, twisted way.

Date: 2006-03-20 09:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] refche.livejournal.com
The “plot” is thinner than a porno where a jaded detective investigates a sex therapist who allegedly fucks her patients to death and bow-chica-bow-wow and all of that.
*loves*

And oh man, the abusive boyfriend analogy! This was a fun read. We used to have stuff like this the comm. What happened to that? *is nostalgic* ;)

Date: 2006-03-25 11:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alex-lebeau.livejournal.com
I should scrounge up....actually, I think I shall now search for it. Our local paper has an audiobook review section, and the poor woman had "Micah" to review. Imagine the horrible schtupping in audio. In your car. No jury in the world could convict me for laughing.

Bwaha, found it:

Micah. By Laurel K. Hamilton. Brilliance Audio. Unabridged fiction, four CDs, four hours, $24.95. Or one MP3-CD, $24.95, read by Rey Colette.

Hamilton has written 12 other novels about Anita Blake, vampire slayer, with the 14th, "Danse Macabre" due out this June. "Micah" is shorter than most of her audiobooks and more of a one-off, as there is little plot and a lot of characterization.

She has been brought in by the Feds to raise the dead, as they need the soon-to-be zombie's testimony for a criminal trial. But most of the story, as it were, is really about sex. Anita has some supernatural (and difficult to quite fathom) creature inside of her that she must "feed" with sex. And she does so often.

To be fair, this may not have been the best place to jump into a series, but impressed we are not.

Hamilton no doubt appeals to romance and erotica lovers, but it does not take long for the clichés and the constant droning about sex to become tiresome.

Also, you may want to roll up the car windows at toll booths and stop lights, as this is extremely explicit material. That this is heard and not read means that the naughty bits seem more real, more jarring, because you can't skim when you've had enough. Just don't bother if you blush easily.

Narrator Rey Colette has a clear, feminine voice and is expressive without overdoing it. That is important when there is a lot of sex in a novel, because it would have been easy for her to cross the line and make this campy.

Colette lowers her voice when reading male parts and has a no-nonsense approach when Blake is wearing her federal marshal badge.

Date: 2006-03-27 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] issendai.livejournal.com
LKH... audiobooks.

It's only natural that there would be, but my mind just never went there. And now that it did go there, it wants a hot bath and a cup of spiked cocoa. If Micah, which is light on porn, was embarrassing to listen to, what on earth would the hardcore books be like?

Date: 2006-04-01 06:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] firesongvx.livejournal.com
Oh, hell, this just made me nearly laugh myself sick, imagining this poor woman *listening* to that stuff! And *then* I started to contemplate what sitting through the Incubus Dreams audiobook would be like, and busted my *other* rib....

I'm not sure if I should thank or curse you for this little gem. ;P

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