It's a marvelously-written, rather elegiac/melancholy novel. Written in the omniscient, which I think is very neat and unusual (more so now than in the past, of course). Definitely worth reading.

Word. Kind of old-fashioned and stilted (but I like that sort of thing). Really important in the genre, so well worth it.

Guys, talk me down.

WHY did I buy Incubus Dreams? Why?

I'm three chapters in. So far, Anita has had sex at least three times, always in multiples. Then she talks about how guilty she feels about sex, and how she isn't really ready to have sex, and maybe her relationships are better without sex. Then she has angsty conflicted sex.

Oh, and they found a corpse. Then back to the sex.

It would probably help if I liked any of her new harem at all.

Oh, and they found a corpse. Then back to the sex.

Ok, that's disturbing.

It was a naked corpse. In Lucite high heels.

Usually finding a corpse is one of least disturbing things that can happen in an Anita Blake book. I think the fact that they left off the sex long enough to find a corpse is a good sign.

Usually finding a corpse is one of least disturbing things that can happen in an Anita Blake book.

I will continue to argue that "We found a corpse! Time for sex!" remains troublesome.

I really think the worst mistake Hamilton made in the series was the ardeur. If Anita's going to be polyamorous, she should just be polyamorous. The whole "I must have sex, it's an uncontrollable urge" thing is like the '80s bodice-ripper trope of Good Girls Don't Have Sex -- They Enjoy Getting Raped.

"That's the trouble with her job. It's got nothing to do with unlife."

Actually, the corpse was a (merciful) pause in the sex.

I know it's been said before, but I liked the Anita Blake books so much more when the focus was on her skill at raising the dead, and by that I mean dead people.