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A review by ranaelizabeth
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures by Stacie Ritchie, Laurell K. Hamilton, Jessica Ruffner, Ron Lim, Brett Booth
2.0
I read all of these a long, long time ago but I recently got slammed into a pretty deep reading rut and I thought these might fit the bill for cheesy brain candy. I also, ahem, thought that they were ALL full of sexy sex. Woe is to me when I read the author's note at the end of this first one and turns out the sexy sex doesn't happen until book five. Looks like I've gotta keep reading then!
And ya know what? These books are not good. They are poorly written, poorly edited, and are not aging well at all. But jesus, they are fucking addictive. I've already made it to book five (SEX! FINALLY!) but I am not going to rate them all because they are all the same. COmpltely and utterly the same. Even the same phrases are repeated over and over again, they suffer a bit from the Sweet Valley Disease (bonus points to those who get that particular matching gold lavaliere necklace-shaped reference).
These books are fine; they are scratching an itch and that's all I needed them to do.
(PS: I did almost call the whole thing off when it was revealed that Richard got lycanthropy because of a batched vaccine. I might have actually snorted and said out loud "for fuck's sake.")
And ya know what? These books are not good. They are poorly written, poorly edited, and are not aging well at all. But jesus, they are fucking addictive. I've already made it to book five (SEX! FINALLY!) but I am not going to rate them all because they are all the same. COmpltely and utterly the same. Even the same phrases are repeated over and over again, they suffer a bit from the Sweet Valley Disease (bonus points to those who get that particular matching gold lavaliere necklace-shaped reference).
These books are fine; they are scratching an itch and that's all I needed them to do.
(PS: I did almost call the whole thing off when it was revealed that Richard got lycanthropy because of a batched vaccine. I might have actually snorted and said out loud "for fuck's sake.")