the advantage of occasionally reading stuff you know you are going to hate

[fpb]

I hate the whole Anita Blake concept, from beginning to end. But it has given me the missing bit for my abandoned Buffy project, "...if all the heroes lose?" - just give Anita a change of sex and she will make a perfect villain. In fact, you don't even need the change of sex, but it was established that the villain of ...IATHL? is male.

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[arhyalon.livejournal.com]

I was a fan of Anita Blake back when she was a Catholic virgin. I even got to write an essay for a book of Anita Blake essays, where I wrote about why Vamires and Werewolves are the romantic heroes nowadays. The author did not like my essay because she objects to romance...but the essay got a lot of notice.

You are right, though, that she really could be a villain now.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

"A Catholic virgin"? Takes some effort to imagine that from what little I've read.

[arhyalon.livejournal.com]

Yes. In the first seven books, she is a Catholic virgin who will not sleep around. The books had good mystery plots and the romance seemed realistic.

Then the author split from her husband, who Richard the Werewolf was based on, left her church, and started a different lifestyle and the books lost their plot and became, basically, porn.