Excellent point. It's ironic really. She goes to all that trouble to establish a complex web of inter-related preternatural communities with cross-pollinated protocol... and then she forgets it just in time to send Anita and Micah on a dirty weekend. The worst of it is that I don't even think this derives from the annoying tendency for Anita to be so powerful nobody crosses her, but from LKH losing track of how her world works, period. She's forgotten that it used to be more than just weres, or just vamps.
And it's so weird... for a book that's meant to revolve around Micah, from your summary it seems like there's precious little of him in there. In addition to the lack of the Master of Philly, I wanted to see what wereleopard politics might be like in another city, or see Micah meet old friends or enemies. She could've followed the old rule of 'don't tell me, show me' and let his past emerge from such an interaction, but instead it got recounted between all that padding.
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Date: 2006-04-25 07:49 pm (UTC)And it's so weird... for a book that's meant to revolve around Micah, from your summary it seems like there's precious little of him in there. In addition to the lack of the Master of Philly, I wanted to see what wereleopard politics might be like in another city, or see Micah meet old friends or enemies. She could've followed the old rule of 'don't tell me, show me' and let his past emerge from such an interaction, but instead it got recounted between all that padding.