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[cryptaknight]

So today I picked up the first volume of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter graphic novel, mostly because I found myself unable to resist the gorgeous artwork, but also because I like the idea of a graphic novel geared towards a female audience, and because it's Guilty Pleasures, so it's vintage Anita at her zombie-raising, vampire-slaying best. It's been forever since I read GP, but it's come back to me now. Phillip and his tragic self, crazy ass Valentine and Nikolaos, vulnerable and only sort of powerful Jean Claude, and Edward as cold and calculating Death. It really made me miss the early books in the series, and made me want to re-read... up to Obsidian Butterfly, anyway. I was like, Bert! What happened to Bert? And Dolph is sort of pleasant. Oh, and the wererats, realized with ink and paper, are pretty intimidating. I could never quite picture them before. Anyway, it was kinda pricey at $20, before my discount, but I'm glad I snagged it. It was really a beautifully packaged volume.

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[siriologist.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, back when Anita books had plot and LKH knew how to write. Wonder what happened. Could someone else have been editing her back then, or maybe even writing, or at least feeding her ideas, instead of pron scenes?

I guess when you're submitting first books to publishers, they have to be decent to get published. By the time you've done ten in the series you can write crap and still have it sell well. I really think it's the editors who are not doing their jobs with LKH. Could her last two books ever get picked up by a publisher if they were first books rather than 11 or 12th books?

[cryptaknight.livejournal.com]

I don't think they would be classified fantasy; they'd get shelved under romance, at the very least, and likely as erotica. The most recent one was okay- not on par with early Anita, but at least it had plot, and Edward, and Animators Inc. LKH brags about not needing an editor, but I honestly don't think I'd mind if she had one.

It's funny, on the day The Harlequin was released, I had some rabid LKH fans in, and they felt the opposite way, that the early books were boring, and the new ones were awesome. So I guess it just really depends what you're looking for in a book. Myself, I don't mind smut, but I'd take plot over pr0n any day.

Oh, btw, I got advance reader copies of the two Lord John books that are coming out in Sept/Nov this year. I'll post when I finish reading them.