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K. Piet is on page 375 of 468

The mini-faeries were kinda cool, and I'm glad there was a little action w/thorn bush o' doom, but I'm unsure where any of this is going now. What happened to the initial plot?

— Jan 12, 2011 07:38AM

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K. Piet is finished

Overall, I'm personally not impressed with these and actually prefer the early Anita Blake books. While the urban fantasy world with all magical creatures had potential, I feel it was wasted on a weak plot of Merry simply coming back to court and dealing with assassination attempts. All baddies were defeated too easily and she already has a harem of men.

— Jan 23, 2011 12:08PM

K. Piet is finished

The sexual tension in the Anita Blake books made them more appealing to me. This one is nothing but instant gratification, and because of that, it's actually less than gratifying. The male characters far outshine the female protagonist. I wish LKH would just give up her personal cookie-cutter for female protagonists & just write gay erotica.

— Jan 23, 2011 12:03PM

K. Piet is finished

More showing of powers Merry wasn't supposed to have, 2 people turned inside out, & Griffin betrays & goes on the run. Utterly anti-climactic for me. Book 1 Merry = 7 devoted men (Doyle, Frost, Galen, Barinthus, Rhys, Kitto, and newbie Nicca). It took 6 books for Anita Blake to finally give in to one of the TWO men pursuing her.

— Jan 23, 2011 12:02PM

K. Piet is on page 445 of 468

The kissing and smexing with Frost was nice, and I love the way his character opened up just a little, but I feel cheated that all the build up with the goblin was glossed over. The drama with Griffin seemed pointless, and gave the impression yet again that everyone's in love with Merry. How this will actually end with any sort of plot climax, I have no clue.

— Jan 22, 2011 05:16PM

K. Piet is on page 320 of 468

It's pretty annoying how Meredith can't go ten pages without someone else being attracted to her and wanting in her pants. -__-;

— Dec 18, 2010 06:58PM

K. Piet is on page 200 of 468

Been reading this for 20 days. Certain things don't make sense (e.g. Merry being so deeply injured and needing medical care to suddenly being all right enough to chat up other characters and never go to the hospital), but once again LKH intrigues me with the minor characters. Merry's voice is scarily similar to Anita Blake's, which I don't particularly care for, but it's different enough to be interesting thus far.

— Nov 24, 2010 01:27AM