After OB, Anita becomes afflicted with something called "the ardeur," which means she becomes a sort of psychic vampire that must feed off sexual energy. Basically, this is a plot device to allow Anita to have loads of sex with nearly every male character in the series and then some. She becomes the female head of a wereleopard pard and becomes romantically involved with the leader of that pard. Meanwhile, she is also dating Jean-Claude and Asher. And she's sleeping with several others, including Jason. Her sleeping with Jason totally killed me. Because he's second only to Edward in my mind, and I disliked that she pretty much used him when he shows such genuine affection for her. I've heard (but not read) that Edward marries Donna and eventually begins to teach Peter (Donna's teenage son) the ropes of creature assassination. I think Edward has been greatly tamed in the later novels.
Oh, and Asher's wiener isn't scarred and is impressively large. Thank god she solved that mystery for us.
I still love the first nine (?) books. I enjoyed NIC, but did have many problems with it. CS is when I stopped enjoying the series, despite running a very active website about it. I continued with the website until after ID came out, then I passed it off to three others who had more enthusiasm than I did. I never read ID or the two (I think) that have come out since then. LKH says she has no intention of stopping, and that she will continue to write Anita books until people stop buying them. Which is good for the current fans, I guess. She's also written the Merry Gentry books. I've read three of those, I think. I don't really remember. Maybe just two. They're very similar to the ABVH books. The premise is that Merry (half fae) is forced to have sex with multiple fae men in an effort to become pregnant. Apparently, it is difficult for fae to conceive.
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Date: 2008-05-30 02:18 pm (UTC)After OB, Anita becomes afflicted with something called "the ardeur," which means she becomes a sort of psychic vampire that must feed off sexual energy. Basically, this is a plot device to allow Anita to have loads of sex with nearly every male character in the series and then some. She becomes the female head of a wereleopard pard and becomes romantically involved with the leader of that pard. Meanwhile, she is also dating Jean-Claude and Asher. And she's sleeping with several others, including Jason. Her sleeping with Jason totally killed me. Because he's second only to Edward in my mind, and I disliked that she pretty much used him when he shows such genuine affection for her. I've heard (but not read) that Edward marries Donna and eventually begins to teach Peter (Donna's teenage son) the ropes of creature assassination. I think Edward has been greatly tamed in the later novels.
Oh, and Asher's wiener isn't scarred and is impressively large. Thank god she solved that mystery for us.
I still love the first nine (?) books. I enjoyed NIC, but did have many problems with it. CS is when I stopped enjoying the series, despite running a very active website about it. I continued with the website until after ID came out, then I passed it off to three others who had more enthusiasm than I did. I never read ID or the two (I think) that have come out since then. LKH says she has no intention of stopping, and that she will continue to write Anita books until people stop buying them. Which is good for the current fans, I guess. She's also written the Merry Gentry books. I've read three of those, I think. I don't really remember. Maybe just two. They're very similar to the ABVH books. The premise is that Merry (half fae) is forced to have sex with multiple fae men in an effort to become pregnant. Apparently, it is difficult for fae to conceive.