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[lovedstrangely.livejournal.com]

dear laurell,

please to tell fans blood relation josh to anita has? yas, please?


ahem, laurell. please stop fucking around with time. and bloodlines. and the 180 line (film majors get this). josh and the little sister, judith's children....are they steps or halves? there is a difference...you cannot keep interchangably using these terms.

thanks,
the management

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[vanity-lost.livejournal.com]

Oh good. I thought I was hallucinating that. Hey, with these books it's difficult to tell.

Time I can live with. Time is wonky to figure out in pages anyway... but the half-step? Is it Josh is a step and the sister's a half? The little sister would have to be a half, wouldn't she? And then Josh could be either...

Maybe they're both half siblings but she doesn't want to claim them so she thinks of them as steps because they're part wicked step-monster?

[lovedstrangely.livejournal.com]

i always thought the sister was def a half, but that josh was too. there's enough time (by my calculations at least) for anita's mom to have died, for her dad to remarry and for josh to be born.

[vanity-lost.livejournal.com]

Apparently, Laurell's lack of understanding in the area of proper relationship terms is contagious. The Anita Blake Compendium has this to say:

When Anita's father remarried 8 years later (based on Christmas gift of lavender blouse Anita got from Judith not returned, while her 8 gifts given to her stepmother have been), it was to a blonde haired, blue eyed woman named Judith. She had two children with him, giving Anita stepsiblings - Andria and Josh.

So apparently either Anita's father is not her actual father. Thus, the children he had with his 2nd wife are Anita's step-siblings. Or... he is not really their father at all and Judith was having an affair.

Someone's birth certificate is lying.