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yakalskovich) wrote2009-07-04 01:10 am
yakalskovich) wrote2009-07-04 01:10 am
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Dark confession time
I actually like 'Micah'.
Yes.
After the ongoing train wreck that is the Anita Blake series, and the incorrigible whingy nonsense that is Laurell K. Hamilton's writing, something seems to have happened.
That book doesn't meander aimlessly, it has a plot. There is the job Anita has to do, and her relationship with Micah, and the book deals with those two in a clean and to-the-point fashion. It isn't an endless paade of one superfluous BDSM scene after the next sexual interlude, with short bursts of pointless violence, there is an actual story line. And it's not bloated to the point where you can kill gerbils by throwing it at them, it's just a nice crime novel you can put in your handbag and read over a pint of white wine spritzer, watching the world go by.
Why not always like this, Ms. Hamilton?? Is this the one time you were forced to listen to your editor?
Yes.
After the ongoing train wreck that is the Anita Blake series, and the incorrigible whingy nonsense that is Laurell K. Hamilton's writing, something seems to have happened.
That book doesn't meander aimlessly, it has a plot. There is the job Anita has to do, and her relationship with Micah, and the book deals with those two in a clean and to-the-point fashion. It isn't an endless paade of one superfluous BDSM scene after the next sexual interlude, with short bursts of pointless violence, there is an actual story line. And it's not bloated to the point where you can kill gerbils by throwing it at them, it's just a nice crime novel you can put in your handbag and read over a pint of white wine spritzer, watching the world go by.
Why not always like this, Ms. Hamilton?? Is this the one time you were forced to listen to your editor?