Suddenly the writing is so poor, so transparent! The characters are so unlikable and so unrelatable that they might as well be from another galaxy. Suddenly, you think you're going to go a little crazy if you read another freakin' sex scene. There's no longer any real edge-of-your-seat suspense. It happens so quickly that you're kind of in a headspin, looking around going, 'Am I still reading the right series? Have they printed a different book under the same name?'īecause suddenly, they're no longer mysteries. They're a little bit sexy and you find yourself wishing a little more sexy would come your way because it's kind of really hawt.īut then something happens after book 10. DAMN have they got action! Obsidian Butterfly, in my opinion, the last good book is such a thriller in so many ways. They've got great characters and really interesting storylines. The first 10 books are filled with mystery and intrigue. Maybe at the end of the series, you're going to come out, see what's left over in the stall and proudly proclaim: Maybe a brilliant struggle for life and death is happening but you just can't see it. The thing is, at first you're wary to because maybe something else is going on. Suddenly they start to struggle and you want to be encouraging, or you want to tell them to give up, take a laxative and come back later. You're sitting in the next stall with someone who, nine or so books ago you thought was really nice and normal. Well, that's what reading Anita Blake is like.

'That's right! Show that turd who's boss!' The Texan guy, thinking that Austin is taking a crap, decides to pitch in and give encouragement to someone who is obviously struggling.

He hears Austin Powers grunting as he fights the guy, saying, 'Who does Number 2 work for?' Kind of like that scene out of Austin Powers where Austin's in the bathroom stall with a bad guy and a big Texan man is in the next stall and can only see Austin's feet. It's not a finished series and usually I would reserve judgment on a series until it comes to its conclusion just in case the author was going somewhere I wasn't expecting. Okay, so some of the girls asked that I do a review of the Anita Blake series because I mentioned some things that intrigued them.

Guilty pleasures by laura lee guhrke