Living with Anita?

[adam-adonai.livejournal.com]

LKH's Bullet began with promise. A contract on Jean-Claude, Anita and Richard. An attempt on Richard's life. And then the plot slid into a meandering mire. The last third of the novel bored me.

I was turning pages, thinking, "Yeah, so Anita had sex with this one, then that one, then this one." Yawn. It felt stale.

The fantasy world LKH created holds attraction. The imagination can play with its concept. Jean-Claude teases private fantasy. But Anita is increasingly annoying.

Imagine living with Anita Blake.

But I do have a katana.

Comments

[lady-fellshot.livejournal.com]

You would have to use that katana early and make sure you dispose of the resulting bodies well.

[knowthyself.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so DOES happen in Bullet anyways? I'm not curious enough to read, but I am curious enough to ask. :)

[sehkmetschild.livejournal.com]

A year after Flirt, I guess.

Synopsis of Bullet

[gatitagitanilla.livejournal.com]

It opens up with Anita going to a kid's school recital where the strippers from Guilty Pleasures were invited to do dance performances with the seniors. Richard comes back to Circcus of the damned after therapy willing to have sex with Asher. Theres some S&M, not sure if he actually has sex with Asher (i've seen it argued on here before) because it's vague sometimes, other times Anita is describing her own sex in the same room so I dont know whats going on behind her and I also rush past de sex scenes when they start to bore me. You have to understand theres about four chapters of them having sex so i get bored.
Mommie dearest comes back from de dead during sex, wants to kill them, some council members are on her side, anita and de guys save Belle Morte from mommie Dearest by having sex, and de bad council members hire assasins. Bibiana calls Anita because she felt mommie dearest and wants her to take in her rainbow colored weretigers that will give her element bending powers.
Anita fights with Haven because he wanted her to himself and finally kills him because he tried to kill Nathaniel. Richard almost gets killed by assassins but Anita saves him by sucking life out of two lycanthropes with her necromancy and then putting it back. Anita watches two crime videos on a computer and Iphone and solves the crime over the phone.
Anita proves that she is stronger than some guy at the gym. A guy from the Harlequin asks Anita to see his gold weretigers before she sees Bibiana's. Anita has sex with one of them and everyone pulls up a chair to watch then Micah and one of de guys join in (i think nathaniel but im not sure). The other weretigers show up and Anita hooks up with a few of them.

I think dat sums it up.

Re: Synopsis of Bullet

[knowthyself.livejournal.com]

That....sounds awful.

[tooimpurenangel.livejournal.com]

Beatrix Kiddo vs Anita Blake!

[poor-toms-acold.livejournal.com]

:-DD

[sehkmetschild.livejournal.com]

I do have to say the plot* did get to me after a while. I'm not much of a fan of commercial fiction because Person X does stuff for 500 pages doesn't excite me. Bullet felt a lot like it was wading into commercial territory.


*term used loosely.

[vmisery.livejournal.com]

Save the tigers! Collect the whole set!

...I dunno, I got nothin'.

I felt the same way...

[gatitagitanilla.livejournal.com]

"I was turning pages, thinking, "Yeah, so Anita had sex with this one, then that one, then this one." Yawn. It felt stale."


I read it because I heard Jean Claude was in it and I was misled by some of the fans posts on FB to believe that it went back to the action thriller crime solving days but all she did was watch some videos of people being killed on her computer and iphone, then call in her advice on dealing with de vamp.
I was thrilled with the Haven fight scene but I was disappointed because the Jean Claude descriptions weren't even new and Anita was just having sex with mad people so I didnt even get to see much of Jean Claude. When de weretigers came in it just got really boring.

Say what?

[avalonnocturne.livejournal.com]

"it opens up with Anita going to a kid's school recital where the strippers from Guilty Pleasures were invited to do dance performances with the seniors."

Blink. And nobody had a problem with that? What kind of school invites strippers to a school recital? What kind of parents lets them?

Re: Say what?

[magdalen77.livejournal.com]

It's better than that. The strippers are teachers at this school. Apparently in St. Louis the only professional dancers are strippers. It was a very odd kind of recital, they started with the youngest age groups, like 2 or 3 year olds up to seniors in high school and the strippers. Also, all of Jean-Claude's group comes dressed up as if they were either going to a nightclub or the opera. The women are wearing evening gowns with bugle beads.