…So I finished Danse Macabre, the 1,123rd* book in Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series.

Well, kinda.

I finished it in the sense that I got about halfway done and said to myself “I’m so finished with this series.”

If you aren’t familiar with the series (which is now actually on the 16th book) it follows reluctant heroine Anita Blake as she tries to save the world, or whatever. She does this by raising the dead, killing rogue vampires and having sex. Lots and lots of sex. Don’t get me wrong, the first couple of books are great, they would have to be for me to even get to Danse Macabre (which was the 14th in the series) in the first place.

Before I got to Danse Macabre I had read all of these user and critical reviews of the books and sort of rolled my eyes as they lamented about how horrible the once-great series had become. Everyone talked about how tedious and unsexy the constant sex in the story was and I thought, hey, I’m totally all for non-stop sex in books. In fact, that is one of the main things that drew me to the series in the first place.

I could not have been more wrong. Read More »