Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton

Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I'm beginning to realize the reason I still read this series, is because it's still fun to criticize how a wonderful series and SO BAD.

About 12 books ago, it was a superb series. This time I picked it up keeping in mind I was in for some porn.

I was wrong.

Yes, Anita is still a slut.

Yes, the ardeur (book destroyer) is still around.

But this was more like the old books. A little bit anyway.

In this book there was ONE sex scene. Would you believe it? For Anita Blake? AND it was a very tame one too. Of course if Laurell is writing only one sex scene to go in this book, she wouldn't make it all the same, so she picked a new guy to add to Anita's man collection.

It has more of Edward in it. I think she was aiming for something similar to Obsidian Butterfly but failed miserably.

Edward in this book goes only by reputation. Everyone is scared of him. Though he is present in the whole book, only once he shows up with a kickass weapon. The credit goes to the weapon, not the person using it.

What I didn't like about this book:

* To make Anita sound so smart, other characters get really dumb down. I'm sick of reading lines like: "But that's not what we learned in the lectures."

* Why the f*** doesn't somebody kill Olaf? He is an awful person, and everyone has been told that if he really kills Anita, Edward will kill everyone else. So why wouldn't they all just kill him and save them some a lot of hassle?

* The long conversations between foreplay and the sex. Get on with, for god's sake. You can't even skip the sex scene because Laurell might drop something important in the middle of it.

* The bad guys have a change of heart right when she is captured? I didn't get that.

* And last but not least, Anita has got all these mad powers, and she never develops them. She is a necromancer, and she can control vampires, heals them. But Ash is still scarred. Stops there. She has all the lycanthrope DNA. What does she do with it? She pictures tigers inside her head. What more do you ask? Once in a while it will heal her. Once in while it will give her a sense of smell. But only when the plot calls for it.


Why 3 stars?

I don't know. I guess if you have kept on going with this series this far this book is much better compared to the last books.


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