Funny thing. I fell in love with the Anita books in the beginning. I came across Circus Of The Damned in the library, and then hunted for others, so I read them out of order. I finally did re-read the first 7 in order, so that the events made sense. After the rape the wasn't (according to LKH) in NiC, I really lost my appetite for Anita. I hung in there for 3 more books (yes, masochist over here), then gave it up. I hated Micah, the ardeur, Micah, the emasculation of Jean Claude, the whininess of Richard, and the ho-ish, homophobic Anita. Basically, I hate that LKH took a great character and a great premise and wrecked it.
Then came Merry. I read them from the first, and loved those, too. What I loved was the Fae world. LKH took some basic Fae legnd and created this whole civil war, which was a cool idea. The Unseelie Court accepting everyone that was different, odd...ugly in the eyes of the Seelie Court. Very cool. Andais was a psycho, but that was okay, too. Uncle Whats-his-nuts, the king of the Seelie Court, cool move making him a sicko. Getting to pick guys to have sex with that haven't had any in a thousand years, SCORE!!! And then...yeah.
The premise was good, the civil war was good...but Merry remaining mortal? Dumb. And seriously, I see how that made for an interesting twist, but still...dumb. How are you gonna be Queen of a people when they live forever and you're gonna pop your clogs in about 50 years?? But okay, I dealt with that. The six daddies for two babies?? I know I flunked biology, but I would have paid more attention if we had covered this phenomena!
I think what made the Merry series better was that we knew we were getting a lot of sex from the beginning, there was an outline, and while there were still rampant typos and editing issues (y'all remember the 'insert here' fiasco?), it was still better in a lot of ways. Just like the Anita books were good right up to the chapter in NiC when Anita, JC and Richard were going upstairs to have a threesome. Once they got up there...the books turned to stir fried shit. Actually, the best thing that could have happened would have been for Anita to die when she got gored.
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Then came Merry. I read them from the first, and loved those, too. What I loved was the Fae world. LKH took some basic Fae legnd and created this whole civil war, which was a cool idea. The Unseelie Court accepting everyone that was different, odd...ugly in the eyes of the Seelie Court. Very cool. Andais was a psycho, but that was okay, too. Uncle Whats-his-nuts, the king of the Seelie Court, cool move making him a sicko. Getting to pick guys to have sex with that haven't had any in a thousand years, SCORE!!! And then...yeah.
The premise was good, the civil war was good...but Merry remaining mortal? Dumb. And seriously, I see how that made for an interesting twist, but still...dumb. How are you gonna be Queen of a people when they live forever and you're gonna pop your clogs in about 50 years?? But okay, I dealt with that. The six daddies for two babies?? I know I flunked biology, but I would have paid more attention if we had covered this phenomena!
I think what made the Merry series better was that we knew we were getting a lot of sex from the beginning, there was an outline, and while there were still rampant typos and editing issues (y'all remember the 'insert here' fiasco?), it was still better in a lot of ways. Just like the Anita books were good right up to the chapter in NiC when Anita, JC and Richard were going upstairs to have a threesome. Once they got up there...the books turned to stir fried shit. Actually, the best thing that could have happened would have been for Anita to die when she got gored.