# A thread for Anita Blake fans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-anita-blake-fans/87367 "2001-10-14T16:12:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-anita-blake-fans/87367/21 "2002-06-17T20:21:07Z")
I agree about Narcissus - bought it, read it - chucked it. I still have the rest of the books (except Burnt Offerings - which I also chucked)- but will be reading the rest of the Anita books through the library - not worth my money. I do like Merry though - just read Caress of Twilight - but then maybe it’s because she came in as a character with power who focuses on sex, so it’s not like she totally changed. I don’t know… Susan ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-anita-blake-fans/87367/22 "2002-06-18T00:12:59Z")
I’ve got to agree with you, Andros. I bought all of the paperback books of Anita Blake and liked them all except for Narcissus in Chains ( I bought that one in hardback) because it deteriorated in to one whiny sex scene after another. I’m hardly a prude, but I wanted a believable detective story and this really let me down. I guess I’ll wait until more of her books hit the library. Like Susan\_ Foster, I do like Merry. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-anita-blake-fans/87367/23 "2002-06-18T01:42:50Z")
Color me stupid, but who is Merry? ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-anita-blake-fans/87367/24 "2002-06-18T04:36:06Z")
[Courtesy of Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345423399/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-9125931-0924626) > [@](#): > > Laurell K. Hamilton revitalized vampires, werewolves, and zombies in the popular Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books. In this new series, she updates faeries. A Kiss of Shadows introduces Merry Gentry, a.k.a. Meredith NicEssus, a faerie princess of the Unseelie Court, where politics is a blood sport. I tried reading that book and couldn’t really get into it, but, hey, it gives Ms. Hamilton something to do when she’s not writing about Anita Blake. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-anita-blake-fans/87367/25 "2002-06-29T22:47:07Z")
I just finished \*\* Guilty Pleasures\*\* \ Why doesn’t she end up withEdward? I _like_ Edward! Oh well, I’m only 10 pages into the next one, I suppose I’ll find out he’s dead or something eventually. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2002, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-anita-blake-fans/87367/26 "2002-06-30T01:16:17Z")
Spoiler for NiC (not that it matters. The plot is just there to give Anita more men.) When Anita pulls out the leech-life trick she learned in OB, , did it work because Chimera was part wereleopard? Or can Anita now just lifedrain anyone who gets in her way? I have to admit, this could make for some funny scenes. Random female vampire: Fear, me mortal! Anita: [SLURP] Yummy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-anita-blake-fans/87367.md?page=1)