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lkh_lashoutsHey, I'm new and I just needed to post what I thought about Micah. Cut and pasted from my writing LJ.
Recently bought and read Micah by Laurel K. Hamilton, it's a short story that takes place in her Anita Blake series. Now you'd think that with a book named after of of Anita's boyfriends/playtoys/whatever, we'd find out more about him. Well we do, for a few pages...
The book, despite the title, is really about a job in Philly, PA, that Anita takes at the last minute, to cover for Larry Kirkland. Larry's wife Tammy went into early labor (at 5 months) and he had to stay with her. Anyway, this story really deals with Anita's fucking hang ups about love, sex, relationships, basically crap she has a hard time dealing with and facing. It's the first time the two of them are alone together and Anita is forced to deal with her fears on the relationship, and the fact that everything is going fine and hasn't fallen apart yet, and won't if she lets it be.
All we really find out about Micah is how he became a were leopard and learn a little about his family. That is literally only a few pages of the book, it should of been the other way around, the job (a zombie raising) as a backdrop and us finding out more about Micah and he and Anita working on their part of the triangle she has going with her, Micah and Nathaniel, another were leopard and a part of Micah and Anita's pard.
Lately the Anita books have taken a real dive. The early books were really good, they had great plot, the right balance of monster stuff, police stuff, some sex, and very good characterization. But the last couple of books have been thin on plot and heavy on the sex. Normally, I don't mind, but I like having a good balance of things and the Anita series just isn't doing it. I'm seriously thinking of getting and reading Danse Macabre and dropping the series after that, it's just not worth it anymore.
It's nice to know I'm not the only one who feels like this. Anyone else get this book, what'd you think about it?
Recently bought and read Micah by Laurel K. Hamilton, it's a short story that takes place in her Anita Blake series. Now you'd think that with a book named after of of Anita's boyfriends/playtoys/whatever, we'd find out more about him. Well we do, for a few pages...
The book, despite the title, is really about a job in Philly, PA, that Anita takes at the last minute, to cover for Larry Kirkland. Larry's wife Tammy went into early labor (at 5 months) and he had to stay with her. Anyway, this story really deals with Anita's fucking hang ups about love, sex, relationships, basically crap she has a hard time dealing with and facing. It's the first time the two of them are alone together and Anita is forced to deal with her fears on the relationship, and the fact that everything is going fine and hasn't fallen apart yet, and won't if she lets it be.
All we really find out about Micah is how he became a were leopard and learn a little about his family. That is literally only a few pages of the book, it should of been the other way around, the job (a zombie raising) as a backdrop and us finding out more about Micah and he and Anita working on their part of the triangle she has going with her, Micah and Nathaniel, another were leopard and a part of Micah and Anita's pard.
Lately the Anita books have taken a real dive. The early books were really good, they had great plot, the right balance of monster stuff, police stuff, some sex, and very good characterization. But the last couple of books have been thin on plot and heavy on the sex. Normally, I don't mind, but I like having a good balance of things and the Anita series just isn't doing it. I'm seriously thinking of getting and reading Danse Macabre and dropping the series after that, it's just not worth it anymore.
It's nice to know I'm not the only one who feels like this. Anyone else get this book, what'd you think about it?
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Date: 2006-05-07 04:59 am (UTC)