Comments on: The real appeal of Anita Blake – Vampire Hunter

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:12:50 +0000

I love the Anita Blake series. However, if you do analyze the books, you can see a drastic turn around Narcissus in Chains. I fell in love with the series because it delved not only into her life as an animater but her personal life as well. In each book we saw her morals go from stark black and white to black and white with an overlapping grey to everything truly is grey. In some ways, I agree with just about everyone, however, we all must point out that the latest books truly aren’t like the early books. That’s okay. It is true that the book is for the characters. But, I for one must admit that I loved it when “animating” was a part of her life and it didn’t take me 20mins to get through a sex scene…sex is great, but does there truly need to be twenty minutes of dialogue within it when what they wanted to say could have been said in 5?

Like I said, still an avid reader, still love the storyline. Anita never ceases to amaze me. But, sometimes, when it comes to sex, less truly is more.

By: irie

irie — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:41:00 +0000

You know, I’ve read a lot of these comments, and what’s interesting to me is how someone can put their schoolgirl/slut…bring home to mother/see after midnight morals to a story about supernatural beings. Plenty of people swooned when the ball-busting Anita who wouldn’t even let a door be opened for her by a man was seduced, supposedly against her better judgement, by Jean-Claude. Everyone was just FINE with that. She’s torn between two handsome men and still trying to keep her skirt down. Everyone is fine with that, too. Then, the woman who spends most of her time denying her female side, is given power to use her sexuality…oh, say it ain’t so!! Look, if you’ve bought into the idea that only men are allowed to explore and be sexual, fine. If you think some of the writing was repetitive, as it can sometimes be a bit, and dislike it for that reason, that’s fine also. But to call a fictional character who has gained a fictional supernatural power a slut is kinda a clue that you need to get out more. Either that, or start having some decent sex yourself, because to those of us in touch with that part of ourselves, the increase in sex is not a drawback of the series. I hear Twilight doesn’t delve so deeply into such matters; maybe that would be more your speed.

To all the high handed men…keep your obedient cows around you.
To all the holier than thou women…if you made your own living and had the looks to do continuously attract men, I can just bet your moral stance on this wouldn’t be as rigid.

By: Nikkie

Nikkie — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:46:17 +0000

So right now i’m on Cerulean Sins, and i cannot stress how amazing this series is. I love the fact that the characters change and develop as the series grows. Laurell K Hamilton grasped me into the books with the first chapter of Guilty Pleasures.

By: Kris055

Kris055 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:58:19 +0000

Too much.

Laurel started out with an awesome strong character with a unique in supernatural novels ability to talk with the dead and do it at a full time job

It ended with a super horny chick that was screwing every sort of were animal and except were-catfish. I missed several novels, she may have did were catfish, were carp and were house flies, I am not sure.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:13:46 +0000

I used to love this series. I bought the first ten books and loved them. I liked Anita as a character and was a great fan of Edward. The stories had a good storyline with only moderate sex. The sex complemented the storyline and had added value; it clarified a few things and was written nicely.

But as the books progressed there came a turning point. It no longer was a story about an adventure and surviving, it became a porn story about a very egocentric woman whining all the time. I stopped with the series as it has become a artsy porn novel with little action and the main character lost all her appeal. I have nothing against porn; In fact I love porn. But when reading an Anita Blake novel I want to read something akin to the first 5/6 books. Nor am I a prude, I really do not care about the number of people she sleeps with but I do not want to read about it every page. When I want to read such things i surf the internet for Literotica or similar sites.

Anita Blake has lost me as a reader. And that I never thought possible as I am very loyal to the many series I read; even the bad ones I read just to finish the series. It is just the big difference between the first and the last novels. Just a shame…