Shannon
posts on 11/15/2009 10:20:30 PM
I never really got into the Gentry series myself. It wasn't because they were bad; they weren't. But vampires are more my flavor, and I think one of the biggest things that attacts me to Anita is her attitude, and Merry didn't have a lot of that. But I still love the Anita series after all this time, and I'm rereading ST right now. One thing that I would love to see, and some people are going to hate me and some are going to tell me all the reasons why it will never happen, is Anita and Edward do it. Just once. And I believe LKH has said she never sees them getting together, but it seems lately like she wants them to. Edward HAS gotten a lot softer around Anita, and she keeps writing little things like "my Edward" or when the topic of them having sex comes up, she always says "he was only doing it to keep Olaf away" or "I knew he didn't like me that way." Like someone who's protesting too much. Just weird how she's been phrasing things lately.
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Teresa
posts on 9/19/2009 12:25:51 AM
You'd have to read the books to get the plot of the series. It really burns me seeing comments from people that probably haven't even so much as picked up the book they're trying to slam. The Merry Gentry series is one of the best I've read and I've done a lot of reading. I guess some people don't have the imagination to read something truly creative. I think you should probably stick to reading encyclopedias.
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mandy
posts on 7/14/2009 8:43:01 PM
Well I think maybe I've chased everyone away from posting here on this site. That's okay, it's really more of a place for me to vent even if nobody reads or responds at this point. Anyway I was just on LKH's "official Site" reading here blog and I couldn't stop laughing about what she'd written on her new Merry Gentry book. Yea it was funny hearing LKH talk about plots and character development considering the Gentry series hasn't really gone anywhere since book one. I'm pretty sure that I'm done with the Gentry series after not just one but several men managed to impregnate her at once, sorta like a rat. Anyway it irritated me to no end that LKH apparently couldn't suffer the idea of one man being enough hence the rodent-like pregnancy. I myself would have chosen Doyle in the first five seconds of being forced to take on all those men in the first place but that's just me. Alas, I suggest that LKH let her Anita and Gentry series go before she makes them any worse and try creating some new worlds. A fresh start might help her drag her stories out of the smut category.
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mandy
posts on 7/2/2009 6:38:10 PM
Okay. Since nobody posted about the book when I asked, here's my run down. It was bad, it was sit down and cry for the death of the series bad because that one really did finish it off for me. Anita didn't fight in it, she missed the one scene that included violence at all which means that we as the readers didn't get to be there either. Edward has gone soft which for me might have been the worst point of all because of all the characters LKH has created Edward was always the coolest. Then there was more disconnected sex with men who I can't even remember the names of. And thought at least Anita seems to able to admit now that there's no earthly way she can juggle the love of hundreds of men she still doesn't seem to realize that juggling even three is ridiculous. For me this is trumped by the fact that JC and Anita still refer to the there line of powers as love. Whatever they've got going for them love is so not it. As for there plans of making a movie or tv show for the Blake series I'm not opposed as long as the negotiate for LKH to have very limited control over the script because she has lost that spark for writing. I don't think she really has it in her to go back through and do an adaptation of the book onto the big screen, so sad and yet so true. This new book could have been such a huge chance for her to revamp her story, instead there she was in that same old rut. Honestly and this is a first for me because I'm a pretty dedicated series reader I don't even think I'll have the stomach to read whatever she plops out next because this book wasn't even worth putting on hold at the library let alone buying :(
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mandy
posts on 6/8/2009 8:33:04 PM
okay, so the new book is out to buy and read by now i'm still waiting on a copy from the library having learned the hard way that buying her books right away are not the best idea. But just because i'm impatiently waiting it out doesn't mean that I can't get a run down on how the book went from one of you all. Good? Bad? Somewhere in the middle of that? I got the latest out on the comic book, not as good as actually reading the books because it lacks the articulation but it's still tones better than most of her last books.
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AsherFan
posts on 5/14/2009 2:21:16 PM
New LKH Boook comes out June 2nd and is called Skin Trade. First chapter is available to read on LKH website. Sounds promising so far. She gets a severed head delivered to her.
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mandy
posts on 3/12/2009 8:43:41 PM
I think twilight was worth the media, the rest of the series is debatable but it's not really important anyway, too late. Let them do what they will with it. Anyway ya'll should try reading Jeaniene Frost if you haven't already. Her Night Huntress novels are pretty cool, it's got the awesome violence combined with an actual love story. Good combination that.
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The commentator Kitty
posts on 3/1/2009 1:19:25 PM
In reply to Mandy. I never read the Twilight books for sex, i agree with you that im bored with it from LKH. I am saying that they dont deserve the amount of publicity that they are getting. I would say that they are basic level books and dont need a film about them. A film about Anita would be a lot better but as long as it would be the earlier books.
Whats the name and when is the new Anita Blake one due to come out????
Kitty
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The commentator Lx3
posts on 2/26/2009 9:25:23 PM
Hey I've just read her book Nightseer, and i was wondering if anyone knew if she ever wrote a book after that one to continue the story line. She kinda left it hanging there. lol
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mandy
posts on 2/24/2009 2:29:53 PM
I would have to disagree about the Twilight series. I like them, but they are after all written more for the young adult crowd so no sex, which squite frankly after reading all of LKH's books I can live without. And Christina Feehan, once you've read one of her books you've read every single one. It's repetitive, the characters don't seem to have much in way of personality variance. Kenyon is good although Ash's book was somewhat disappointing. I just don't see how someone who's been used as a whipping post most of his life could be so....good. Maybe it's just me speaking experience as permanently damaged goods but it is never that easy to get through to the abused, nd it was really., really easy with Ash. Ok onto LKH's books, she's got another Anita book coming out here pretty soon. I'm hoping that when I read it this time there will be a lack of the 90210 factor that was in that last book with Jason. I think she should kill one of her main characters to add some action in there. I'm thinking definitely Jean-Claude, I'm really very bored with him. Maybe Belle Morte can kill him and then Anita will finally hunt the cow down and kill her. That would have been my first priority if the skank had started messing with my head. Frankly i was disappointed when Anita didn't being forced to make out with the woman in her mind. Or maybe she should kill Asher, hes not as cool as he started out. I would say she should kill Richard, I could live with the idea, he could finally snap kill Jean-Claude and then try to kill Anita it would give LKH a clean slate to work with. I don't know, it's just disappointing that some of Anita's earlier books will never be made into movies because the new stuff is garbage. They would have made great movies. Oh well.
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The commentator Kitty
posts on 2/16/2009 11:41:33 AM
Hey. I have to agree with most of the posts. I read the first Blake books when they came into my shop and i was hooked. I loved the supence and the blood and how she believed Vampires were evil. How she was amused by the idea of a Vampire 'courting' her, but in her later books i must admit i have got rather bored with them. They really had just turned in love stories, very similier to the v. predictiable Mill's and Boon books.
Please LKH, bring back the old Anite, who dosent 'do' everything in site. Sod love and get back to what works best, the mystery and the gore!
Kitty
P.S, for those of you who read the Twilight, its really not that good. Way to much publicity for a silly little series. Read something intresting, like Sherrilyn Kenyon or Christine Feehan!!
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mandy
posts on 12/28/2008 9:10:24 PM
Well here i am again. I just read the new LKH Gentry book. I have to admit i was once again sorely disappointed. I should have known that nothing as orginal as what she'd done to frost would last. Not when it's simple enough to say love would bring him back. It was dull, and all through the book Marie blah blah's us to death about how she's going to be a queen and how she's going to take care of then and protect her child and then she cops out in the end. I think maybe it was the end of the series, with the way it ended, once again badly, but the whole happily ever after thing was rediculous if not laughable. To be honest I went stratight from reading that to reading Moning's Faefever that the details are fuzzy. Moning's book ended badly too by the way but LKH knows how to top the bad book list,but at least if her Fae series is blessedly over she can start something new. A story with plot and characters that I can read without my friends laughing at me for reading what they call trashy porn for horny women. Kay I'm gonna stop rambling now lest I really make some fans mad. Oh if you haven't seen it HBO's True Blood is awesome.
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mandy
posts on 11/11/2008 7:09:16 PM
So the new title is Skin Trade, seems like an odd title. I would have to tend to agree in hoping that it isn't in some way related to Anita humping another new character that not even I, someone who has read all the books can keep track of. I mean I lost track way back when. There's some guy that calls her ducky and another with some other nick-name which is how i identify them. Anyway, I would settle for violence or some new developments with her own inner shape shifter. I was just stewing a couple nights ago, in disappointment a few months back about the Twilight series getting a movie. Cause lets face it, if LKH hadn't gone in the direction she had she so could have a movie. I thought instead we've Twilight. That was of course until I read the book. I still have a wonderfully youthful spirit so it was easy to connect with the books. She does good characters, and yes it is a young adult book but that doesn't mean they can't be good. If you haven't read I recommend giving it a try. Note to LKH current fans Twilight is very pure, keep that in mind while, if you decide to, give it a chance.
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AsherFan
posts on 10/22/2008 1:00:30 PM
LKH just realeased the date for her new Anita book. June 2009. Its going to be called "Skin Trade". I really hope that title has something to do with a monster eating people or something, and not sex. We need the old Anita back.
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mandy
posts on 9/30/2008 7:21:59 PM
It was way to soap opera for me. You've actually read it twice, i just got done reading Sherrilyn Kenyons Acheron it's around 700 pages but every minute of makes you feel so much for that character that I didn't really notice how long it was. But to reread a book that was predictable and melodramatic I cringe. I'm not sure which LKH has coming out next I've already got both on hold at the library, here's hoping she won't disappoint, again.
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The commentator Alisha
posts on 9/19/2008 5:43:51 PM
I was happy to have a little less mess in this book. The last couple of books seemed to have Anita worn thin. Although I was happy to see that Anita has embraced her role well with Nathaniel. However I had much of the plot figured out early on in the book, it was a great book that I have reread twice since buying the book.
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mandy
posts on 6/26/2008 7:02:08 PM
Well I finished Blood Noir like two or three weeks ago. The drama never ceased, keep in mind now I said 'drama' not action. It was pretty much actionless all up until the last chapter where Jason is gettin turned into hamburger meat. Strangley I was so worn down by all the previous non-sense that when it came time for me to be upset that he was dying instead I was like "YEA! Finally some action. That is not good. I was more upset about the stripper in Guilty Pleasures and you didn't even really get to know him all that well. I think that back then LKH's charcater development was much better than it is now. But then her books are all about love now so maybe that's it. Anita is so busy loving everyone that I'm just to p.o.'d to notice much in my haze of bordom. Oh and what happened to Richard is not cool. I mean i knew eventually that the sicko dementia was going to spread to last normal character but I had hope for him. I was really disappointed but I did laugh a lot when he was trying to make her love just him. Tables turned, Anita has been messing with other peoples minds so much without a care that all I thought when it happened was 'she had it coming.' That's pretty much it, Blood Noir was a flop, I think they aught to switch LKH to the romance area since its hardly a mystery/thriller anymore.
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mandy
posts on 6/10/2008 5:03:08 PM
Wow that's an old post up there at the top. Strange Candy is like old news. However I have gotten my hands on the new Anita Blake novel Blood Noir and so far after reading only 50 pages I would change the title to 90210 or The O.C. I'm not seeing any plot in it other then a giant drama queen tale of Jason going home to see his dying father. This is just me personally but why make peace with someone who hates you. I'm probably just a hater, if anyone who posts has actually finished the book, please by all means ruin the end for me. Tell me something interesting happens. After fifty pages of drama so far I'm really doubting it. I'm mostly disappointed with the new book because it leaves the previous goings on in the dark. I mean Antia said that she's still occasionally having relations with Richard but in the last book that seemed like it. Richard was finally free. Which is a good thing because whether or not LKH sees it these million way relationships won't last. How do I know this because they don't last in real life. You can't have it both ways, and boy is that saying true. Juggling peoples emotions can't last forever because in Anita's situation the feelings don't go away. So I'm waiting for LKH to either really get on with the story or have this whole thing finally blow up in Anita's face. Because so far the only person displaying any real human rational was Richard. Oh well, not real life anyway so I'll leave that alone. I read this book called the Gray Fang or something like that, really short and really bad. It was like this big offal mix of LKH, Blade, Interview with the Vampire, and there was another but I can't think of it. The point is it was bad, worse then LKH's by a very long shot, well sort of. I'm rambling so I'm going to go away now. Post people, how's Blood Noir end?
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alice
posts on 4/25/2008 2:06:44 PM
i have been a laurell fan for some time and have been totally captivated by the anita blake stories, however i feel that after obsidian butterfly the whole feel of the books changed dramaticaly, please can we have more edward, what happened to olaf?????
why have they turned richard identity into one which is not very nice there was no need for that he just comes across as a pratt he should be treated with respec!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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mandy
posts on 4/23/2008 6:24:54 PM
Okay then, i don't really have anything to post about an LKH book because she of yet doesn't have anything out. But until she does I know that, I think it's J.R. Ward, I could be wrong about the initials they sort of escape me at the moment, but her series is pretty cool. And another good time passer was a book called Half way to the Grave, or Half Way in the Grave, one of those two written by something Frost. I don't remember her first name but her book is pretty pre-LKH. I'm having some difficulty remembering all the authors that O'm reading lately cause I'm breezing from one to the other too quickly but last names are usually enough so a book can be find.
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