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... I'm almost done with Skin Trade. I'm kind of torn on how to rate it. Thus far, the sex has been essentially non-existant. [I peeked ahead, it does appear] So, you'd think this would mean the A-plot could move on with just a few bumps in the road thrown in for kicks, right?
Right. I just finished [before my nap] three pages of Anita and Wicked dancing around in circles about why Jean Claude didn't send anyone Anita would really want to feed off of. JC doesn't want anyone else added to her list of boytoys and Anita is confused as to why he'd essentially send all newbies. Whine, bitch, luckily no moaning. Wicked points out that she requested people who could handle themselves in a fight and whom she wouldn't mourn all that much if they, y'know, died. Plus, when hunting someone who likes to kill strippers? Is probably best if you don't flood the area with his victim of choice, right? LOGIC is used by a character named Wicked.
Anita cannot process this. Logic has no place in this world, man. So. Three pages of this.
I call bullshit. Even if Wicked was however many miles away, Edward was right there. The REAL Edward would have bitch slapped Anita and pointed out she got what she wanted and if she'd just, you know, stop fucking all the monsters, maybe these things wouldn't happen. Or, better still, he'd have killed her or let the cops do it. Because it's the equivalent of the badguys standing there while the magical pretty girl transforms for the better part of two to three minutes [and that's assuming she doesn't have other pretty girls backing her up, in need of their own transformations]. She was so busy whining that she wouldn't have noticed the SWAT guys turning their attention her way. Really.
Anita herself has never been my favorite part of the books. As time has gone by and the lines between Anita and her character have blurred, my like of her has shrunk even more. But then something interesting happened in ST, so I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to actually cut the series out completely. Anita has realized she's horrible at her Fed job. Conflicted in ways she wouldn't have been years ago, and she doesn't say this as a source of pride.
On the other hand, this is also the same character who assures a weretiger that she's not into rape and then, less than ten pages later, mind-fucks him just so she won't get mind-fucked herself. Realizes what she's doing and then does it anyway.
I long for the day when Laurell wakes up and realizes that her preternatural community is tired of this shit and has killed Anita a thousand different ways. And considering LKH is forever going on about how she's basically just transcribing what her characters tell her... It could so happen.
[I can dream. Let me dream.]
Over in Entertainment Weekly, we've got a vampire special that is a little less special than I hoped for. LKH brings the unintended laughter and I really, really hope they call her out on her "genre I sort of pioneered" comment next week because, yeah. Oh, the hilarity. Also, claiming that Anne Rice didn't really influence her writing/characters at all made me snort soda. Cuz, really? I'm thinking your vampires would beg to differ...
But whomever said all the genre was missing was the vampire who was a shoe whore? Needs to do more reading. Queen Betsy, man. Queen. Fucking. Betsy.
Annnnnnnnd I'm really not sure I'd include the Blue Bloods series or P.C. Cast's series, but I haven't read the latter so I can't be sure. It just seems weird to have their list of however many super fantastic vampires and have them also on the list. Oh, and Edward Cullen is not the Cullen made of awesome. That title belongs to Alice and anyone who argues on that point will be kicked in the head. [You may, however, offer up a different Cullen. But not Edward. Because as an actual vampire, he's lacking.]
Right. I just finished [before my nap] three pages of Anita and Wicked dancing around in circles about why Jean Claude didn't send anyone Anita would really want to feed off of. JC doesn't want anyone else added to her list of boytoys and Anita is confused as to why he'd essentially send all newbies. Whine, bitch, luckily no moaning. Wicked points out that she requested people who could handle themselves in a fight and whom she wouldn't mourn all that much if they, y'know, died. Plus, when hunting someone who likes to kill strippers? Is probably best if you don't flood the area with his victim of choice, right? LOGIC is used by a character named Wicked.
Anita cannot process this. Logic has no place in this world, man. So. Three pages of this.
I call bullshit. Even if Wicked was however many miles away, Edward was right there. The REAL Edward would have bitch slapped Anita and pointed out she got what she wanted and if she'd just, you know, stop fucking all the monsters, maybe these things wouldn't happen. Or, better still, he'd have killed her or let the cops do it. Because it's the equivalent of the badguys standing there while the magical pretty girl transforms for the better part of two to three minutes [and that's assuming she doesn't have other pretty girls backing her up, in need of their own transformations]. She was so busy whining that she wouldn't have noticed the SWAT guys turning their attention her way. Really.
Anita herself has never been my favorite part of the books. As time has gone by and the lines between Anita and her character have blurred, my like of her has shrunk even more. But then something interesting happened in ST, so I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to actually cut the series out completely. Anita has realized she's horrible at her Fed job. Conflicted in ways she wouldn't have been years ago, and she doesn't say this as a source of pride.
On the other hand, this is also the same character who assures a weretiger that she's not into rape and then, less than ten pages later, mind-fucks him just so she won't get mind-fucked herself. Realizes what she's doing and then does it anyway.
I long for the day when Laurell wakes up and realizes that her preternatural community is tired of this shit and has killed Anita a thousand different ways. And considering LKH is forever going on about how she's basically just transcribing what her characters tell her... It could so happen.
[I can dream. Let me dream.]
Over in Entertainment Weekly, we've got a vampire special that is a little less special than I hoped for. LKH brings the unintended laughter and I really, really hope they call her out on her "genre I sort of pioneered" comment next week because, yeah. Oh, the hilarity. Also, claiming that Anne Rice didn't really influence her writing/characters at all made me snort soda. Cuz, really? I'm thinking your vampires would beg to differ...
But whomever said all the genre was missing was the vampire who was a shoe whore? Needs to do more reading. Queen Betsy, man. Queen. Fucking. Betsy.
Annnnnnnnd I'm really not sure I'd include the Blue Bloods series or P.C. Cast's series, but I haven't read the latter so I can't be sure. It just seems weird to have their list of however many super fantastic vampires and have them also on the list. Oh, and Edward Cullen is not the Cullen made of awesome. That title belongs to Alice and anyone who argues on that point will be kicked in the head. [You may, however, offer up a different Cullen. But not Edward. Because as an actual vampire, he's lacking.]
