Bloody Bones? What Bloody Bones?

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

I may as well get this started.

Out of curiousity, I was lurking about on LKH's official board, on the Ask Laurell section, and a hopeful fan asked whether or not there will ever be an Anita/Merry crossover. Apparently the official word is that no, not gonna happen, because a) two completely different alternate universes and b) according to Laurell the fae don't exist in Anita's world anyway.

Let me say that again: the Anitaverse officially has no fae.

Um, except NO. LKH wrote an ENTIRE BOOK with fae characters and a fae backstory and just generally lots and lots of fae-ness. And yes, it's an Anita Blake book! Available right at your local bookstore! Yet official word is that it never happened. Nope, whole months of Anita's life aren't canon, nothing to see, move along.

In other words, she just jossed Bloody Bones.

*headdesk*

Comments

[pith]

Gah. She should really hire a continuity protector or something. For her OWN good. She's contradicted herself so many times that I don't take anything she says seriously anymore.

But that's just an official gloss on why she won't do a Merry/Anita crossover. The real reason? The Mary Sue factor would make it explode. Not to mention she wouldn't be able to remember which character she was writing about. Anita, or Merry? Richard, or Frost? LKH, or LKH? They're all the same, mostly.

Besides, Anita would probably start ardeuring all over the Merry Men, and Merry wouldn't take kindly to that. *L*

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

She's contradicted herself so many times that I don't take anything she says seriously anymore.

Well, I believe she still writes the books all by herself, sans ghostwriter; a book a year isn't unreasonable. If she were churning out two or three like-sized books, then I'd say she's getting help. Other than that...eeeyeah.

The Mary Sue factor would make it explode.

WORD. Wordy McWord on a wordwich with a side of wordchester sauce.

They're all the same, mostly.

Ehhh...I dunno if the Frost/Richard comparison is accurate, because I actually kinda like Frost, whereas Richard I loathe to the very depths of my being, the hypocritical fuck. Although lately I've wanted to smack Frost, too.

Anita would probably start ardeuring all over the Merry Men, and Merry wouldn't take kindly to that.

Merry, no. But the Queen would sell tickets!

[pith]

When it was a book a year, it was still okay. I think doing two series which are so similar is starting to take its toll, though. There are sex scenes (what other kind are there in her books nowadays?) that are basically copy&paste from earlier books, with names and colourings changed.

I was just grasping with the Frost/Richard comparison, although I did have a great page bookmarked that made a list of convenient "comparisons" between Anita characters and Merry characters, and the creator managed to match almost every character up. (Some were more tenuous than others, but it was rather disturbing to have all the similarities so blatantly pointed out. How dumb does LKH think her readers are?)

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

I think doing two series which are so similar is starting to take its toll.

I think you're right. AB started to go downhill right after Obsidian Butterfly (and argueably before that, in Blue Moon), which was around the time that the Merry books were released.

This is probably for two reasons.

1. LKH created two such similar series (both with Mary Sues) that she started getting them confused and the overall quality went down.

2. Coincidentally, the heavier sexual content in AB began shortly before she started writing Merry. Now, my original theory (before Cerulean Sins was released) was that when she had an outlet for her pornish impulses, she could cut way back on the sex scenes in AB.

Oh, what fools these mortals be.

Of course she didn't cut back, and of course the porn content ballooned, because after all LKH doesn't write for character consistency, or an interesting plotline anymore...she writes Teh Pr0n because everyone knows Good Girls Don't Do That, and thus she is going to be deliberately contrary at the expense of the characters, plot, and everything else. Damn the unhappy and vocal readership...she's not writing for them, she's writing to Make A Point Or Something, and strikes a daring blow for gender equality whenever Anita/Merry spreads her legs.

*headdesk*

I did have a great page bookmarked...

Oooh, where, where?!