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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
This book is like Micah to me - a small book compared to a full novel. Although I enjoyed it as to me it dealt with bad guys and Anita being Anita - the length wasn't probably big enough to be sold as a full book. I did enjoy reading her thought process behind this book and the comic with it.
adventurous
dark
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is definitely in the category with Micah, and that's not a bad thing. The shorter story allows it to be very focused, and that makes for a great story.
The book where Anita rapes someone and everyone feels bad for...her? What the hell did I just read...and how is this book pulling 4 stars on goodreads. I have a feeling if you genderflipped the characters there would be a lot more negative opinion. Glad all her problems are still solved with sex, though, Anita is sooo *edgy*.
It's like Hamilton went for a quick buck with this one.
Maybe it's the spill over from Patterson in a different genre, but Hamilton tried to go the easy route here. She decided to write a very short novel, I doubt you can actually call it that, since it's more of a short story, at the most a novella. Then, you can tell that she did not feel completely comfortable with the product she delivered, so at the end she goes into this long winded explanation about where ideas come from and why she wrote the book. Basically, she was writing one of the books on the Meredith series, and this thing happened, and she could not let the idea go, so she wrote a short novel to get it out of her system and be able to finish the other book. I kind of feel like calling BS on that explanation.
Going back to what the author delivered, it is not that bad if we are talking about the basic storyline, just a little undeveloped, linear and without any complementary events taking place together with those in the main plot. Also, in a book this short, wasting a significant amount of time explaining some of the relationships among characters and things readers of the series already know by heart, makes the new elements pretty restricted. I am fine with the explanations during a normal novel, but here I feel they were unwarranted. It should have been marketed only to readers of the series and new readers should start elsewhere. Especially because if someone has not read Hamilton before, and this is the first one they get their hands on, they won't be impressed.
I truly hope that the next book has some redeeming qualities and the author at least tries to deliver at a more professional level.
Maybe it's the spill over from Patterson in a different genre, but Hamilton tried to go the easy route here. She decided to write a very short novel, I doubt you can actually call it that, since it's more of a short story, at the most a novella. Then, you can tell that she did not feel completely comfortable with the product she delivered, so at the end she goes into this long winded explanation about where ideas come from and why she wrote the book. Basically, she was writing one of the books on the Meredith series, and this thing happened, and she could not let the idea go, so she wrote a short novel to get it out of her system and be able to finish the other book. I kind of feel like calling BS on that explanation.
Going back to what the author delivered, it is not that bad if we are talking about the basic storyline, just a little undeveloped, linear and without any complementary events taking place together with those in the main plot. Also, in a book this short, wasting a significant amount of time explaining some of the relationships among characters and things readers of the series already know by heart, makes the new elements pretty restricted. I am fine with the explanations during a normal novel, but here I feel they were unwarranted. It should have been marketed only to readers of the series and new readers should start elsewhere. Especially because if someone has not read Hamilton before, and this is the first one they get their hands on, they won't be impressed.
I truly hope that the next book has some redeeming qualities and the author at least tries to deliver at a more professional level.
Where's the "Do Not Read This" rating? I'm thinking that LKH's actual novels are trying to work their way back up to semi-decent but her glorified short stories in novella form should be avoided at all costs.
Anita crosses yet another line that makes her more monster than heroine and in the hands of a more gifted writer, you might suspect this was intentional or would eventually lead to something big. Possibly epic, but we'd settle for entertaining. But because this is Anita Blake the sex years, you know it won't.
Anita chooses to bind someone to her metaphysically. But wait, you say, hasn't she done this before? No. Those were accidents! Or that's how Anita remembers it anyway, and I'll choose to believe it. This go round, despite not being in enough danger to warrant it, she chooses to erase someone's freewill for the rest of their unnatural life. And she's okay with it because it saved Micah, Nathaniel, and Jason.
Except it didn't because hello, these aren't ameutures. The moment it went radio silent on Anita's end, things happened that effectively wiped out the threat.
Long story short, Anita's the bad guy (but it's okay because Micah understands how hard it was for her even though she doesn't act like it was at all difficult for her to go against everything she previously stood for) and has bound a new werelion to herself. Huzzah!
Crap.
Anita crosses yet another line that makes her more monster than heroine and in the hands of a more gifted writer, you might suspect this was intentional or would eventually lead to something big. Possibly epic, but we'd settle for entertaining. But because this is Anita Blake the sex years, you know it won't.
Anita chooses to bind someone to her metaphysically. But wait, you say, hasn't she done this before? No. Those were accidents! Or that's how Anita remembers it anyway, and I'll choose to believe it. This go round, despite not being in enough danger to warrant it, she chooses to erase someone's freewill for the rest of their unnatural life. And she's okay with it because it saved Micah, Nathaniel, and Jason.
Except it didn't because hello, these aren't ameutures. The moment it went radio silent on Anita's end, things happened that effectively wiped out the threat.
Long story short, Anita's the bad guy (but it's okay because Micah understands how hard it was for her even though she doesn't act like it was at all difficult for her to go against everything she previously stood for) and has bound a new werelion to herself. Huzzah!
Crap.
Reviewing each of these books individually is something I am just not capable of doing. Each book intertwines with the other so completely that it is nearly impossible to separate them. The relationships are complicated and nothing is black and white.
It seems to me that after the first 4 or so books, the author developed a love of BDSM. The series takes a twist from Urban Fantasy and ends up in the Erotic Fantasy. At first, the story doesn’t suffer and the erotic moments are a part of the story rather than consuming the entire plot. That is at first though….
After about book 11 or 12, the erotic becomes the sole focus. Sure, other stuff is going on, but it is all pushed to the back burner. There are so many relationships that is gets hard to be invested in each one of them.
I had to just ignore the parts that described anyone’s clothing, it was that bad. Sure, the series started a long time ago, but even in the more recent books, there are shoulder pads… yeah, should pads. Ugh! Plus, all of the men have long hair. ALL of them!!
All of the supernatural beings stick pretty close the versions told throughout history. The vampires can’t be in the sun, the werewolves have a short temper and get protective, the demons are bad… no need to reinvent the wheel here people.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
fast-paced
Not as bad as some of the previous books but the end made me think: That's it? That's the whole story? I'd give it a very, very low 3.