That's so fucked up. Her having no women friends is more so...I can understand if women don't give you the arduer or whatever that bullshit is(although apparently I'm less straight than I thought) but I sense hostility. Am I on crack?

She did have a woman friend though, who got involved with the Rat King.

I can't remember why Anita has to have sex or die exactly. It's called aurder and it has something to do with getting bitten by the vampire master Jeanwhoever. Maybe Richard got bitten as well, because some how the three of them were tied together, until Other Dude showed up and turned out to be more Anita's soul mate and had some sex power over him. She has to have sex every few hours or sex overwhelms her and she dies.

Ha ha ha ha. Wow. Every few hours? That must put a damper on her crime solving.

Ok...it's not like I read a lot of that stuff. Just one or two that Buffistae loaned out. "Very interesting, but stupid."

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I love the phrase "emergency sex."

Also, it appears Anita Blake has every power imaginable while still remaining a regular human.

It's been a really long time since I've read the books. I think in the more recent ones there hasn't been really crime solving. It's more solving the supernatural mystery, which for awhile meant Anita picked up a new power. And defeated the previously undefeated monster. The sex thing is tied into some kind of power or strength she has sex to help her defeat the bad thing.

I think. I may be making the books sound worse than they are.

Yes, Anita is the UberMarySue.

Not only is she so beautiful that men can't help but lust after her (this is before she gest the sex powers), but she has a tragic past. Her mother was killed. When her father found out, he fell apart and she had to comfort him as he had emotionally abandoned her.

Her mother was Mexican (I think), and her father was WASP who married an icy blonde, and her step mother was always ashamed of Anita and so Anita barely knew love. And grew up feeling unloved. She got engaged at one point, to a nice WASPy boy, who only let her meet his family once (or maybe not at all), but he freaked out over her necromancer skills (at the time all she had) and her being not WASP and dumped her.

Tragic, tragic past.

It's funny because the supernatural aspects of the series sound pretty cool.

I may be making the books sound worse than they are.

I'm not sure that's possible.

I haven't read the past couple of books, because the Powers of the Month Club got so lame.

Has she slept with Edward the Hitman yet? Or is theirs still a Our Love of Killing Monsters is So Pure thing?

I'd suggest reading the first several books. Those are okay. I wouldn't read any further than 5 or 6.

Although Obsidian Butterfly is interesting because it focuses more on the secondary character Edward.

But I wouldn't suggest reading anything after that. Unless you fortify yourself with Fernet.