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dsrtao_Kiss the Dead_, Laurell Hamilton
This is the 21st or so book in the Anita Blake series, so if you don't know what you're in for, this is not the book for you. For everyone else, the question is "is it getting any better?" and the answer is a qualified "not yet".
Minor spoilers follow.
In this episode, Anita faces her least convincing threat ever: a group of vampire and vamp-wannabe terrorists, bent on breaking the vampire master-fledgling dominance structure. Past their introduction, there is no serious worry that she will break a nail. More property is damaged by supernatural sex than bombs.
The real focus of this book is on Anita's polyamory, with special attention to primaries, secondaries, slaves, and scheduling problems that even Google Calendar is helpless to solve. The word polyamory is defined several times, and of course there are many examples presented. Anita finally admits to being "heteroflexible", which is apparently different from "bi", because, you know, she only does females who she really really wants to do. I'm not sure if this is supposed to fool anyone except Ms. Hamilton.
We also see some repetition of scenes. For example, this happens more than once:
AB: Oh, I must have sex to feed the ardeur, lest I grow weak! Of which there is no sign.
Willing But Possibly Dominated Partner: Oh yes!
[ They do, for a chapter or so. ]
AB: That was so good, I forgot to feed the ardeur. We must do it again.
WBPDP: Yes, just let me move first, I'm beginning to chafe.
[ They do, for a chapter or so. ]
Spoiler: no place or entity named "Kiss the Dead" shows up.
This is the 21st or so book in the Anita Blake series, so if you don't know what you're in for, this is not the book for you. For everyone else, the question is "is it getting any better?" and the answer is a qualified "not yet".
Minor spoilers follow.
In this episode, Anita faces her least convincing threat ever: a group of vampire and vamp-wannabe terrorists, bent on breaking the vampire master-fledgling dominance structure. Past their introduction, there is no serious worry that she will break a nail. More property is damaged by supernatural sex than bombs.
The real focus of this book is on Anita's polyamory, with special attention to primaries, secondaries, slaves, and scheduling problems that even Google Calendar is helpless to solve. The word polyamory is defined several times, and of course there are many examples presented. Anita finally admits to being "heteroflexible", which is apparently different from "bi", because, you know, she only does females who she really really wants to do. I'm not sure if this is supposed to fool anyone except Ms. Hamilton.
We also see some repetition of scenes. For example, this happens more than once:
AB: Oh, I must have sex to feed the ardeur, lest I grow weak! Of which there is no sign.
Willing But Possibly Dominated Partner: Oh yes!
[ They do, for a chapter or so. ]
AB: That was so good, I forgot to feed the ardeur. We must do it again.
WBPDP: Yes, just let me move first, I'm beginning to chafe.
[ They do, for a chapter or so. ]
Spoiler: no place or entity named "Kiss the Dead" shows up.
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Date: 2012-06-08 01:09 am (UTC)Mind if I link to this?
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Date: 2012-06-08 01:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-06-08 05:55 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs
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Date: 2012-06-08 09:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-06-08 10:48 pm (UTC)