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dsrtao_Skin Trade_, Laurell Hamilton
As this is book 18 or so in a series, I can safely assume that you will not bother reading _Skin Trade_ unless you actually liked one or more of the preceding volumes in the saga of Anita Blake, She Who Is Destined To Have Everybody Else's Powers.
As most of my friends are reasonably sane, I can also assume that many of those who started in on these books stopped shortly after Anita started to get power-up tokens by engaging in chapter-long, (later multi-chapter) sex scenes. Perhaps you had heard that _Obsidian Butterfly_ was an exception, in that there was an actual plot, and a resolution to same. And then you would doubtless have heard that the succeeding books fell back into the abyss, indeed, tore it open wider and deeper and harder and O Yes! Anita shouted as she felt the metaphysical hugeness of her author working out her fantasies on the harsh white glare of the screen! Two vampires and a werewolf!
Ahem.
_Skin Trade_ is a mysterious throwback in terms of plot (there is one) and resolution (it does) and sex (there is relatively little, it doesn't come until the end, and it makes sense in terms of the plot).
I can't actually recommend it, though. If you like the sort of thing that Hamilton once wrote, you might like this.
As this is book 18 or so in a series, I can safely assume that you will not bother reading _Skin Trade_ unless you actually liked one or more of the preceding volumes in the saga of Anita Blake, She Who Is Destined To Have Everybody Else's Powers.
As most of my friends are reasonably sane, I can also assume that many of those who started in on these books stopped shortly after Anita started to get power-up tokens by engaging in chapter-long, (later multi-chapter) sex scenes. Perhaps you had heard that _Obsidian Butterfly_ was an exception, in that there was an actual plot, and a resolution to same. And then you would doubtless have heard that the succeeding books fell back into the abyss, indeed, tore it open wider and deeper and harder and O Yes! Anita shouted as she felt the metaphysical hugeness of her author working out her fantasies on the harsh white glare of the screen! Two vampires and a werewolf!
Ahem.
_Skin Trade_ is a mysterious throwback in terms of plot (there is one) and resolution (it does) and sex (there is relatively little, it doesn't come until the end, and it makes sense in terms of the plot).
I can't actually recommend it, though. If you like the sort of thing that Hamilton once wrote, you might like this.
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Date: 2009-07-02 12:42 pm (UTC)