Given the way the series was going when I stopped reading it, I’m just praying that the thread title isn’t literally accurate …
no weresharks as yet. i’m a bit concered about a wereoctopus.
There was the wereswan involved in porn films… that’s about as close to shark humping as I want to get.
I can’t remember at which book I stopped reading; it might have been Obsidian Butterfly, but I think I might have read Harlequin after that, I don’t know. They all started blurring together. Anita has sex with any were (I keep waiting for her to introduce a werethree-toed-sloth or a wereplatypus into the mix) that comes within 5 feet of her, Jean-Claude is in danger of losing the city, a couple of people get gruesomely mauled, Richard whines, The End.
I liked the first few books. They had neat things like plots and character development. Now it’s just porn, and who wants to pay hardcover prices for that?
Well, somebody’s gotta get fucked!
A major, unboxed spoiler in the first line of the OP, completely viewable on mouse-over.
What, that the latest Anita Blake books suck? I think you might perhaps be in the wrong thread here. 
Agree with everything that’s written. The series started out with great characters, interesting storylines, and a protagonist that actually learns and grows.
Forget paying hardcover. I won’t even get the books out of the library anymore.
I’ve moved on to Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan series.
The sentence I think you’re referring to is:
She = Laurell, not Anita. As in, the author was between husbands when the book was written (not the protagonist was between husbands when the book occurred). I haven’t verified whether that’s the case or not, any more than the OP had, but that’s how the intent of the first line reads to me.
Besides
[SPOILER]Anita has not ever been married in the series to date, so how could she be “between husbands”?
Although, to be fair, the Damien bit would be a pretty big spoiler to someone who hadn’t gotten that far in the series. But, frankly, that’s a fair ways back in the storyline by now, and it’s not viewable on mouse-over. (Even with the Firefox long-alt-text extension thingy.) I can’t imagine someone who is spoiler-sensitive reading anything about the series online until they’d gotten up to the last few books, at least, simply because people aren’t going to be sensitive to the material revealed in earlier books when there are this many out.
In other news, it’s way past my bedtime, so apologies in advance if this is snappish and/or incoherent.[/SPOILER]
OK, my bad. Thanks for clearing that up.
I stopped reading them after “The Killing Dance”. I kind of felt she had reached the apex of her writing… and started to have some worrying repetitions in her books.
So, is the consensus that the next two books are also worthwhile?
you are safe up to butterfly. don’t go on to “in chains” unless you enjoy wildly insane sex scenes.