Central Park Were-Zoo, anyone?

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Anyone else ever have something along the lines of "Werewolves and were-rats and pards, oh my!" running through their head during an AB book?

A friend of mine reviewed Micah in class the other day. "This book is... um... it's porn. Just porn. I took notes. Seriously, I did not know you could do some of this stuff..."

And then we got into a discussion on what the hell is a were-leopard anyway. Which led into a discussion of the various were-flavors in this book. Were-swans were by far the most amusing. And I got to thinking...

Is anyone else just waiting for the were-penguins to show up? You know Anita will be their Empress Royal Goddess-Incarnate. You know it.

Were-swans and were-penguins are now a running theme among my friends and I'm just wondering when the idea will occur to our Mad Mrs Hamilton.

Oh, and is it just me or is Anita Blake (and to a newer-series-and-therefore-slightly-lesser-extent MG) becoming exactly like a game of pretend Superheroes with a bunch of 7-year-olds?

"I kill you with my laser spell of doom!" "Nuh-uh, cause I have my Shield of Mega Power!" "Well my Mega Doom Blaster goes through EVERY shield!" "But you can't hit me cause I am lightning-fast-person and I can dodge your blaster thing!" "NUH-UH!" "YES-HUH!" "Nuh-uh! Cause now I have my Ultra Poison Dart and it kills anything and I'm shooting you with my ubergun and it was enchanted by a voodoo priestess." "But it won't pierce my Supermegaultra Armor cause it was made by Merlin!" "Will so! My dart's made up superultrahyperiron and the gun was made by the Dragon King...." etc.


Okay, and since I've never posted here and I probably should do some form of introduction: I'm a Merry Gentry fan. I'd be a bigger MG fan if Laurell wasn't so afraid of teh lesbianism, but that's never gonna happen. I like the Unseelie Court and the world and such she made up for Faery. I don't think she's using it as well as she could, but hey, it gives someone else room to improve.

However, I loathe Anita Blake. Go figure. Not the series, I mean the character. Anita gives me a headache. Oddly, I like some of the other characters but not the main one. Merry is also beginning to wear thin as she's starting to become more of an AB v2.0.

Anyone else for banning Laurell from writing more series? She's allowed 2-4 books in each world and that is it. No more.

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And the annoying thing is, she TRIED to go to TEH LEZBIENZ place in Seduced by Moonlight when Merry and Maeve made out (hey, say that ten times quickly while drunk) and during the smoochies, orgasms a-plenty happened. And lo, it was one of the more tasteful sex scenes in the entire novel, and series to date.

But y'know, that'll never happen again because Merry's aim is to get pregnant and thus she mus have sex with MEN frequently, and often.

*headdesk*

Considering that she's set upt he court as a place where sex isn't taboo, nor is really using it to gain power...you'd think it wouldn't be frowned upon to use it against the same gender. The fye would shrug it off as one of their things and everyone gets on with their lives.

But nooooo...

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oh, rant away. It's stupid! Look, don't give your universe morals like that if you cannot bring yourself to write them! It's that simple.

Except, yes, the Merry Maeve scene was one of the coolest. Maybe we should have her write only intimate scenes that make her uncomfortable, thereby ensuring she glosses over them without the use of universally large/tight/wet/big/throbbing sex organs...

I love the way that she makes Andais's ventures into bisexuality a whole big thing as if "ooh, now she's really off her rocker, 'cause look she's bisexual!" Then again, she was kinda hitting on her neice... but hey, olden day royals were all about the marrying their cousins so, go figure.

At least Merry has a reason/motive to have sex 24/7. It's sort of like sex and pregnancy or death. Anita is just having sex because the sex monster makes her. Then again, Anita has a Catholic upbringing to blame for her no-I'm-so-not-gay-totally-strait-seriously code. Merry was brought up in free-lovin' faery. Except when she was in college, which well, being in college... Experimentation. Exploration. So... rather like free-lovin' faery. It's just never explained!

If Merry is a real speaking voice in LKH's head, then Merry is off sobbing with J-C and Asher over being repressed.

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I love the way that she makes Andais's ventures into bisexuality a whole big thing as if "ooh, now she's really off her rocker, 'cause look she's bisexual!"

That's...kinda nuts. Not only does it go against the whole free-lovin' fairy thing, but...well, IMO, after a few hundred years you'd think she'd get bored of men and at least try out girls for a while. (that kinda goes for the vampires in the ABVH world too)