Is this true?

[chococomilk.livejournal.com]

For those who have bravely read "Bullet" - is it true that JC and Asher have finally been allowed to sleep with each other, and that Micah and Nathaniel have suddenly become lovers out of the blue? I came across these rather astonishing claims on the Amazon forums. It seems bizarre that LKH has done a complete 180 on Anita's refusal to allow "her" men to sleep with other people and got characters getting together all of a sudden who never even had interest in each other previously. In one of the earlier books, maybe Harlequin, it was suggested that Asher had interest in Nathaniel, but Micah? I know he does whatever Anita wants, but what?

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[mitsukainokaosu.livejournal.com]

He made out with JC during the giant orgy we didn't have to see. It was all just weird.

[mitsukainokaosu.livejournal.com]

I thought it was good for Asher, in an "I'm trying to make sense of something ridiculously random" sort of way. He's been bitching about all the straight men for ages, he grabbed himself two major victories in one book by getting JC and something that doesn't seem to have any concept of sexual orientation.

I'm leaning more towards the hope that there won't be a next book so I don't have to torture myself reading it, but I know better than to hope too much for that one and figure he'll end up permanently called Dev until Asher comes to his senses, takes his hyena's (and the tiger) and goes off to murder people for his own territory. The last part's probably a long shot.

[mitsukainokaosu.livejournal.com]

I pity that poor guy when people recognize him who've read this nonsense lately. :(

[fadeinthewash.livejournal.com]

LKH is a particularly bad case, but she's far from the only serial author to include "Previously on..." statements scattered throughout the books. Drives me crazy, as I figure if you're going to read a book from the series, you should make the 5 seconds of effort to figure out which one comes first, or just suck it up that you don't know who people are or what happened.

Alternately, I guess it's good if you've been following the series in real-time so that it's been at least a year since you may have read the previous installation, but still...

And if it's a publisher-preferred thing, they could just put a little summary page in the front of the book for reference! Gyar.

/sorry, pet peeve

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

A very dear friend of mine just started reading the Blake books from the beginning, and I have warned her that "After Obsidian Butterfly, it degrades into rape, sexual manipulation,pederasty, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, prejudice, and sociopathy - all coming from Anita herself."
My friend doesn't care. She even named her new Nook ebook "Jean Claude" and thinks Anita is "the best kick-ass heroine ever." I'm not sure how she'll feel about the later books, or even if she'll notice that Anita actively rapes men. My friend is a self-described "Uber-feminine girly-girl with a damsel in distress personality who loves anything romantic and wants to be a Disney princess." I kind of hope the rape and manipulation bits in the books wakes her up.

[ad-kelley.livejournal.com]

LKH actually already did this in Bullet. Mephistopheles refers to himself as Devil (with the colloquial 'Dev' being used as well). His sister is Angel, apparently there's one named Thorn as well? This along with Cynric reducing his name to Cyn (Sin) really just made the names a bit too much for me to swallow anymore.

[h0rsewithnoname.livejournal.com]

This is why I downloaded Bullet and Flirt for free. It isn't stealing if it's garbage.

[ardeth30.livejournal.com]

Tad Williams did a 'Previously' type thing for his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy and his Otherland quartet, but then his books in hardback are thick enough they could be used to seriously hurt someone.

From what I remember Jean Auel is as bad as LKH for the 'Previously in...' statements too; Shelters of Stone was really irritating because she essentially copy & pasted the summaries of the previous books in the series over and over again. Instead of, y'know, moving the plot much.