I also found that my review of the most recent (and nigh-unreadable) Anita Blake book has been mentioned in a blog over here. However, I can’t read the blog, nor can I get Babelfish to do anything good to it. Anyone know what they’re saying about me?
Anonymous of guest comments of zo disabled, en not an e-mail address in sight (can’t say I blame him), dus vandaar:
I don’t mind bad books, I really don’t. That I’m re-reading the entire Wheel Of Time mess should make that more than clear. That, the fact that my formula to choose which books to buy used to be
price
x length of series
#pages I think I reached my nadir with the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. It’s so bad I didn’t realise I’d already read it until I re-read the fifth book in the series.
Well, now there’s an eleventh Anita Blake. Adam Lipkin over at Bookslut is not impressed:
The eleventh book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series confirms that the series, never much more than a guilty pleasure to begin with, has long since degenerated into a muddled series of sex scenes interspersed with a nonsensical plot. This is The Color of Her Panties for the x-rated set.
Which reminds me: I should keep my book database up to date. It’s been so long, and I’ve bought so many books since my last update that the Wheel of Time is missing the last three installments!
That Color of her Panties-thing is a reference in to Xanth, by the way. I’ve got twelve Xanth novels. Not that that’s something to be proud of.