emfiliane reviewed The Harlequin (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 15) by Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (15))
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2 stars
I don't need to make a full review because Crystal Starr Light wrote such a fantastic one. Seriously, if you enjoy these then don't read it; it's so thorough that it deconstructs the less obvious problems with the book to make it impossible to even read the series anymore.
Instead, I'll just complain about the pacing. Every time you get those five pages of action and wonderful plot you get... ten pages of angsty whining, ten pages of sex more phoned in than hot, ten pages of committee meetings so dull it makes you wish you were at a real meeting at work, all interspersed with twenty pages of Anita musing about her confusion and which man she wants to sex up next.
You live for those five pages, and you suffer and try to skim the rest of the book to lessen the pain. Trust me, it's not worth …
I don't need to make a full review because Crystal Starr Light wrote such a fantastic one. Seriously, if you enjoy these then don't read it; it's so thorough that it deconstructs the less obvious problems with the book to make it impossible to even read the series anymore.
Instead, I'll just complain about the pacing. Every time you get those five pages of action and wonderful plot you get... ten pages of angsty whining, ten pages of sex more phoned in than hot, ten pages of committee meetings so dull it makes you wish you were at a real meeting at work, all interspersed with twenty pages of Anita musing about her confusion and which man she wants to sex up next.
You live for those five pages, and you suffer and try to skim the rest of the book to lessen the pain. Trust me, it's not worth it. The half a novel hacked out here has been done so much better in series like the Walker Papers, or even the early Anita Blake novels. Best read for riffing.
