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impyAlrighty. Anita. I know I shouldn't read the Anita books anymore because they do nothing but make my brain ache, but I do anyway. I was going to be good and skip this one [and any other unless the general consensus of semi-intelligent folks was that someone backed up off the horrible crack] but it somehow ended up in the big stack of books Mumsy brought home. So I caved and read it. Much like OoTP in Harry Potter world, I had to keep putting the book down because, my lord, the pain. At first it wasn't so bad, if you exclude the usual suspects of agony.
These include, but are not limited to:
Her obsession with "so_, so very _so" although the "very" isn't always required in the sentence of doom. Repition in general gets very old, very fast.
Richard being made out to be the bad guy. This also includes the version wherein Richard seemingly tries to overcome his twisted ways and then immediately falls back into his old ways just so Anita can feel morally inferioir/superior/bitchy and there's never a truly good reason for all of this.
Her smut device, and any resulting smut that doesn't seem to happen for any reason even remotely tied to any plot or character development, or hell, because the scene was leading that way at all.
Yes, these things are annoying, but you also expect them after however many books. You know they'll happen. You'll hope they won't, you'll hope someone took her aside, hit her with a mallet, and fixed a couple, but you don't really expect that little scenario to happen.
The last you'd heard of my travels in the Anita-verse, I was fairly content. Richard was bitching and voicing the opinion of the disenchanted fanbase, and we were being told we suck and she's so marvelous and whatnot, but at least we had a voice. Or something. The smut overall wasn't that bad this go round. Might as well give the devil her due. Whereas the last couple were nothing but sex scenes stapled together with the angst/talking about sex stuff shoved in between, this one actually had very few sex scenes. I remember three vividly. Thing is, the second one I remember? Took the series in a whole 'nother direction, and not on the fast track to Funville. Nope.
See, Anita ends up feeding on Raf, the rat king. Which is creepy enough as is, since she doesn't really want to, and he doesn't want to, and yeah, it's explained in political reasons, but still, meh. Thing is, while she's feeding, she doesn't just feed on him, she feeds on all the rats he has control of. I don't remember if it's this feeding or the one on the swans, but she likens it to rape, since the only person who sort of consented was their king. Flat out calls it such, in fact, and it's all okay because it means she's not dead. ... o_O So, um, feeding on people who did not give you permission is okay because they're ruled by someone else and they said, hit me baby? That's cool? No. No it is not, because in the earlier books she'd have killed anyone else who did that. Hell, I think she'd still kill anyone else who did that, because it would violate all those other people's rights, minds, everything else. But because SHE did it, because her power base needed it, it's okay.
That, honey, means you're now one of the bad guys. Still sort if in shock from that, I couldn't really get over the whole Lion thing. Basically, she needed to feed on a buncha animals to keep Richard/JC/Her alive. I think. Anyway, they tapped the lions who refused because Joseph [king/Rex/dork in charge] wouldn't sleep with Anita because he's MARRIED. His wife was all, "No. You can't go anywhere near that slutbag, are you crazy?" For good reason. Anita doesn't love 'em and leave 'em, she snags them and makes them into wimpy dudes who mope around waiting to get laid again, and that's a best case scenario, ok? So no sane woman is going to say okay to that. Anita gets pissed, and this is the part where it's a little murky. I can see her point. The lions don't do shit for anyone really, and this is just one more example of that. On the other hand, they aren't exceptionally strong, and when you run with the Skank, you don't really want the brains of the operation, you want the cannon fodder muscle. She says as much. Repeatedly. So what does she want from them? Oh, just to feed. So, they won't, and Anita and Co. cut them off and out of the furry coalition which is just hilarious. This is where the murkiness ends. By doing that, she's said it's open season on their lions, and she's been told repeatedly that it would mean the slaughter of much of the pride, but because she's so pissed that he won't fuck her, she's prepared to let these people die. Sure, she tells the lamest nicknamed baddie in history to leave the college kids alone and the ones who've been working and earning money that helps support those who can't work [so, hello, they are doing things to help, or could have, if you'd made your wishes clear enough], but that can't cover all the lions. Sure, we're told later that Joseph, his wife, and his brother are all missing, but she's cool with that. Because he wouldn't sleep with her. You can look at it however you want, but her version of help involves sex, which he couldn't, and wouldn't, do. So she condemned him to death. Great girl, that Anita.
And Richard has a problem with this and her tactics in general. I wonder why? If you're going to act like the bad guys so much so that your actions mirror theirs, then maybe you aren't as good as you'd like to believe. Maybe Furface has a point.
Not so much because of spoilers, though they are there, but because I don't think anyone else gives a damn. :P Which is okay, I like to rant to myself.
Crap. I just realized that next weekend I'll be stuck with the dress shopping. G'ah. I guess it won't be so bad as I won't be getting my dress then, I don't think, so there is that. Still... And double damn. The place I want to get my dress from is giving me dates that I don't like. Should have ordered the dress before. DAMN.
I'm going to forget about this until tomorrow and sleep. Then work. Then remember and start screaming. Meh.
These include, but are not limited to:
Her obsession with "so_, so very _so" although the "very" isn't always required in the sentence of doom. Repition in general gets very old, very fast.
Richard being made out to be the bad guy. This also includes the version wherein Richard seemingly tries to overcome his twisted ways and then immediately falls back into his old ways just so Anita can feel morally inferioir/superior/bitchy and there's never a truly good reason for all of this.
Her smut device, and any resulting smut that doesn't seem to happen for any reason even remotely tied to any plot or character development, or hell, because the scene was leading that way at all.
Yes, these things are annoying, but you also expect them after however many books. You know they'll happen. You'll hope they won't, you'll hope someone took her aside, hit her with a mallet, and fixed a couple, but you don't really expect that little scenario to happen.
The last you'd heard of my travels in the Anita-verse, I was fairly content. Richard was bitching and voicing the opinion of the disenchanted fanbase, and we were being told we suck and she's so marvelous and whatnot, but at least we had a voice. Or something. The smut overall wasn't that bad this go round. Might as well give the devil her due. Whereas the last couple were nothing but sex scenes stapled together with the angst/talking about sex stuff shoved in between, this one actually had very few sex scenes. I remember three vividly. Thing is, the second one I remember? Took the series in a whole 'nother direction, and not on the fast track to Funville. Nope.
See, Anita ends up feeding on Raf, the rat king. Which is creepy enough as is, since she doesn't really want to, and he doesn't want to, and yeah, it's explained in political reasons, but still, meh. Thing is, while she's feeding, she doesn't just feed on him, she feeds on all the rats he has control of. I don't remember if it's this feeding or the one on the swans, but she likens it to rape, since the only person who sort of consented was their king. Flat out calls it such, in fact, and it's all okay because it means she's not dead. ... o_O So, um, feeding on people who did not give you permission is okay because they're ruled by someone else and they said, hit me baby? That's cool? No. No it is not, because in the earlier books she'd have killed anyone else who did that. Hell, I think she'd still kill anyone else who did that, because it would violate all those other people's rights, minds, everything else. But because SHE did it, because her power base needed it, it's okay.
That, honey, means you're now one of the bad guys. Still sort if in shock from that, I couldn't really get over the whole Lion thing. Basically, she needed to feed on a buncha animals to keep Richard/JC/Her alive. I think. Anyway, they tapped the lions who refused because Joseph [king/Rex/dork in charge] wouldn't sleep with Anita because he's MARRIED. His wife was all, "No. You can't go anywhere near that slutbag, are you crazy?" For good reason. Anita doesn't love 'em and leave 'em, she snags them and makes them into wimpy dudes who mope around waiting to get laid again, and that's a best case scenario, ok? So no sane woman is going to say okay to that. Anita gets pissed, and this is the part where it's a little murky. I can see her point. The lions don't do shit for anyone really, and this is just one more example of that. On the other hand, they aren't exceptionally strong, and when you run with the Skank, you don't really want the brains of the operation, you want the cannon fodder muscle. She says as much. Repeatedly. So what does she want from them? Oh, just to feed. So, they won't, and Anita and Co. cut them off and out of the furry coalition which is just hilarious. This is where the murkiness ends. By doing that, she's said it's open season on their lions, and she's been told repeatedly that it would mean the slaughter of much of the pride, but because she's so pissed that he won't fuck her, she's prepared to let these people die. Sure, she tells the lamest nicknamed baddie in history to leave the college kids alone and the ones who've been working and earning money that helps support those who can't work [so, hello, they are doing things to help, or could have, if you'd made your wishes clear enough], but that can't cover all the lions. Sure, we're told later that Joseph, his wife, and his brother are all missing, but she's cool with that. Because he wouldn't sleep with her. You can look at it however you want, but her version of help involves sex, which he couldn't, and wouldn't, do. So she condemned him to death. Great girl, that Anita.
And Richard has a problem with this and her tactics in general. I wonder why? If you're going to act like the bad guys so much so that your actions mirror theirs, then maybe you aren't as good as you'd like to believe. Maybe Furface has a point.
Not so much because of spoilers, though they are there, but because I don't think anyone else gives a damn. :P Which is okay, I like to rant to myself.
Crap. I just realized that next weekend I'll be stuck with the dress shopping. G'ah. I guess it won't be so bad as I won't be getting my dress then, I don't think, so there is that. Still... And double damn. The place I want to get my dress from is giving me dates that I don't like. Should have ordered the dress before. DAMN.
I'm going to forget about this until tomorrow and sleep. Then work. Then remember and start screaming. Meh.
