Micah Review
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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
http://bambamentries.blogspot.com/2006/03/micah-by-laurell-k-hamilton.html
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Date: 2006-03-20 06:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-20 07:03 am (UTC)5000 points for referencing Blue Steel
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Date: 2006-03-20 07:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-20 08:47 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-03-20 08:49 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-03-20 10:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-20 11:03 pm (UTC)It worked.
In a sick, twisted way.
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Date: 2006-03-20 09:00 am (UTC)*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* ;)
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Date: 2006-03-25 11:41 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-03-25 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-27 10:32 pm (UTC)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?
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:54 am (UTC)I'm not sure if I should thank or curse you for this little gem. ;P