Flirt

Does anyone else get the feeling that if Anita, or Merry, for that matter, decided to do something as quotidian and mundane as changing her brand of toothpaste, it would provoke a long, drawn-out, tortuous discussion/debate/conversation (with all her friends, lovers and enemies, and random passersby Leggi tutto

I want to start off by saying that this wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. And it definitely wasn't as bad as it could have been. I had the lowest of hopes for this one after reading Divine Misdemeanors (★) last year so maybe that's why I liked Flirt more. Trust me though, it was nowhere near p Leggi tutto

Why did I do this to myself? Why return to Anita Blake, when all she does is annoy and frustrate me? Because I am a fool. But as foolish as I am, at least I didn't write a novel in which all the male characters tell Anita how hot and desirable and wonderful she is for an entire chapter . Is there a pl Leggi tutto

Good morning, boys and girls! Gather round Miss Michelle now. That's right. (Amelia, stop poking Mel. It's not nice.) Today, we're going to do a little lesson in writing style. I want you all to look at the following passage and tell me: What bothers you most about it? The boy came in with a book. I Leggi tutto

What a self-indulgent bit of tripe. The conceit for this book is that the plot stems from a thoroughly uninteresting and commonplace thing that actually happened (gasp!) to Hamilton and a few of her friends. The only amazing thing about it is that Hamilton and her friends seem to have blown the inci Leggi tutto

This message brought to you by the word: Flirt! Flirt! Flirt! Anita Blake meets with Tony Bennington, who wants her to bring back his exploded wife as a human-life zombie (we find this out after they argue and posture for a while). SOP: Anita says no, smoochie-smooes with her stripper boyfriends/love Leggi tutto

Yes, it's a novella. No, it's not worth $25. It's not even worth the $12 discounted price. This should have been a short story added to another book as a bonus, or posted on the website for free. It clocks in at less than 50,000 words, and about a third of those could have been taken out, if not for Leggi tutto

It's weird, after I read the free excerpt of this book a few weeks ago I actually predicted the plot somewhere on this site. So it was predictable. Oh dear. We got back to zombie raising, necromancy powers and master vampire powers as well as Anita falling back on her coping mechanism of going to the Leggi tutto

It's not to say that I hated this book, it was more along the lines of what was the point of it all? Anita has yet another adoring gorgeous man hanging off her arms and we've established yet again that her powers are awesome even without her men. What happened to the good old days of blood and gore. Leggi tutto

Flirt makes it obvious that Hamilton has paid at least some attention to the criticism of this series. But considering that it took me a whole hour to read, this novella (terribly short for the price) is too little and probably too late. Anita's long-neglected career as an animator makes another appe Leggi tutto