I think I read the first MG book about the same time I was reading the earlier Anita books. I thought the plot was kinda interesting but the Anita books were more so. By the time I finished AB and got back to MG I'd lost my patience with them. The series take a lot of the aggravating elements of AB and makes them worse. The self-absorbed speshul speshul narrator, the flimsy excuses forcing the heroine into porn, the long drawn-out descriptions of everything Merry-related. I re-read one of the earlier paragraphs describing the three rings of Merry's irises in depth and couldn't stop rolling my own eyes.
The ideas are neat, and I probably would have been more tolerant of the annoying parts of the series if Anita hadn't done it first. 90% of my problems with the series could be fixed if LKH laid off making Merry the center of everyone's universe. MG had less far to fall than AB, but the series has still been a disappointment.
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Date: 2010-06-15 06:20 pm (UTC)The ideas are neat, and I probably would have been more tolerant of the annoying parts of the series if Anita hadn't done it first. 90% of my problems with the series could be fixed if LKH laid off making Merry the center of everyone's universe. MG had less far to fall than AB, but the series has still been a disappointment.