Totally awesome vampire writer.
Discuss your favorite book(s) by her, how you found out about her, what you liked about particular books, what you didn't like, etc etc.

I found her through the book BITE, a gathering of several vampire writers. I found it because I was checking out vampire books at the libary and it came up. I turned it in and wanted to check it back out later on. Since the book was listed under her name, I looked her up and a gazillion other books came up. I have her first three sitting across the room from me right now...(I really should get those back to the library soon...) I've read the first two and plan on reading the third...soon....

Really love her writing...I think I've read all of the books written by her, with the exception of some really old dnd or some other series...was it star trek? book that she wrote. XB

Really? :o I'm gonna have to look that up later, aren't I?
*makes mental note to self that will get lost in five minutes and not show up again for five months*

Originally Posted by blu_sour_skittle

Really? :o I'm gonna have to look that up later, aren't I?
*makes mental note to self that will get lost in five minutes and not show up again for five months*

haha, actually, I heard that that book wasn't as polished as her writing is now, since i believe it was written in the late 80's?

Still, I think I'll look it up anyhow, even if only to know what it is. it's just one of those things...

Originally Posted by blu_sour_skittle

Still, I think I'll look it up anyhow, even if only to know what it is. it's just one of those things...

sure, lol

Laurell K. Hamilton is one of my favorite Author's. Her writing style is off the wall and keeps your attention easily and she includes many of the character's thoughts. particularly the Anita Blake series.


Though its gotten a little...ahh..less about story and more about corrupting her morals perhaps? Either way, its a wonderful series that brings a lot of different type sof characters into a cohessive group of amusing characters. Some are smartasses, some are elegant, some are simply there for Anita's back up or "protection" as placed by other characters.

Without a doubt, jean-claude is my personal favorite of the chars. Witty, elegant, strong, a bit of a smartass, calculating,showy and even overdramatic. Heh, my idol.

What about anyone eles's favorite characters and why they are your favorites?

I'd have to go with Rhys, from the Gentry series... He is kinda the same, but a total sweetheart to boot. If I had to pick someone from the Anita Blake line... it would totaly be Jason. He has managed to progress wonderfully throughout the series, and it has all been *IMHO* for the better.

And the oddball book of hers that you guys were talking about... It is possibly Nightseer? I have read every book that has her name even mentioned in it...and I have never seen a startreck one...

**is the biggest Anitaverse fan, owns sites/groups/etc along with all the books and smart ass mugs**

Rhys is definitely an interesting character. I'v read the first two books of the Gentry series but I just couldn't completely get into it. It seems that right from the beginning, that series is doing exactly what anita waited 6 or 7 books to get to. Other then that, I like world its set in. The Unseelie court is definitely my favorites of legends about Fae.

Ya. It's pretty much hardcore. What I liked the most, is all the politics with the supernaturals and stuff, so the last 2 books in the gentry series have been just crap... all smut. I mean ALL. As in, only 2 hours pass in the entire 400 pages, and the entire time it is sex, they NEVER leave the bedroom...and there is not any dialouge. Even the Anita books have started heading downhill somewhat... they are still doing vampire politics, but she hasn't been on a case sense the penthouse serial killer kiss. That was good. But these last ones... *sigh*

Love all her books! Finished/own all of the Anita Blake that are out. And I just purchased all of the Meridith Gentry novels. Which are all good so far! I have my fingers crossed that Mistrals kiss will be just as good! -waits for that one to come in the mail.. >> -

Jean-Claude is my favorite too XD

To be blunt and I will be, but for the rest of you who dont want to see it, its posted in white.

Anita Blake
The series has gone downhill.
I am disappointed in Hamilton for smutting up the last few books
Instead of furthering the storyline. There is minimal advance and it
Makes me think that she has given up on all of our favorite characters.

In the Merry Gentry Series, it is teetering on the edge of the same line.
It is as if she has lost her urge to create anything that will REALLY pull you in as the first books did.

I love Laurell K. Hamilton's work to death, but I sincerly hope she gets her muse back and soon.

*for future reference, you should state that you are making negative comments on the series/author and it is posted in white, not that you are going to be blunt. IE: I am going to be blunt and make a statement that should not be read by prudes or those 13 and under:

Reading a good sex story now and then is beneficial to my relationship with my boyfriend. I learn new things, things that make both of us very happy. To me, it is better than watching p0rn, 'cause it explains everything, and if you need to, you can dog-ear the page, and go back to it to memorize for future use. See? Blunt.

I hate her and love her, Ms. Hamilton.... Love hate relationship. I loved her Anita Blakes series till Blue Moon. That ruined it. Everything after that went downhill and was just Anita god-moding and being a whore.

Her Meredith Gentry series seems to be so so right now. Meh. It might go downhill, I dunno. I don't like how already, Meredith is too powerful. Frost and Doyle have become almost nothing and it is only the third book I've read up to. I hate how Hamilton has a bad habbit of creating these really "awesome" male characters and then they just turn out to be useless. Frost is like an emo-angst version of Asher+Richard. Doyle is a bit like Jean-Claude...dark and threatening but only that--not actually that badass. I wish that Hamilton would not let her female characters cast such a shadow over the male characters so entirely. I miss the Jean-Claude of old, and the Doyle from the beginning. Already, Doyle is failing. Galen is a lot like Nathaniel...weak, pretty, but useless. I am frustrated that Queen Nic. is just like BelleMorte. Nothing compared to the main character. Meredith is too much like a pixie version of Anita Blake. All of it is about sex and blood and Meredith just trumps everything, period. That bugs me.

I prefer when the story requires cooperation of many people, rather than one person pulling it by sheer god-like abilities. I'm annoyed at how weak the other characters are in comparison to the main heroine. Yes, yes, I know, I know...she IS the princess, and Anita IS the necromancer blah blah...but I'm irked by how sex solves everything, and how if sex doesn't solve it, Anita and Meredith's godly-powers solve it, no questions.

I don't mind sex in the stories, but it should be used in a way to forward the plot, not replace the plot. I hate god-moding when people RP and I sure as hell hate it in stories.

Laurell K. Hamilton is one of my favorite authors. I love the Anita Blake series, specifically the first few before it turned into smut. Even though I don't like the later books as well, I will still buy and read them just because I've read the others and I want the set.

For some reason, I never really got into the Meredith Gentry books. I read the first two I think, but they just never held my interest. I may try to read them again sometime. I also have an older book by Laurell K. Hamilton, called Nightseer (I think it is... or something like that) but I haven't read it. I started to read it once, and it just seemed uninteresting to me and I never finished it.

Guilty Pleasures is where it all started for me. I have them all, have read them all more than once and pre-ordered the two that are not yet out in print XP

I have in fact just recently seen a commercial for a new TV series that looks suspiciously like the Anita Blake series! They changed all the names but they were advertising a plot where the girl had clients being eaten by zombies, and her looking into Voodoo for answers, and they showed two hunky guys fighting over the girl and both of them advertising the fact that they were not human

T_T unfortunately it was really late and I was not paying enough attention to find out the name of the series... and it was on some network that I have never heard of before ^_^'

0_0 Your joking! It has been going around the fan-forums for YEARS that they should make a movie per book, or a series, or something... to the extent that fan's have even voted for actors to fill the roles! But to think that someone has actually taken the concept and may be doing something with it... *sigh* I would imagine that it would not follow the storylines or plots of the books, but even having a series with the same type of concepts, with zombies, and such, would be well worth upgrading the cable!!!

Mm...i'm still out on tihs one. IF it is going off the books, I hope it does it jsutice. The Comic does well but they're still on Guilty Pleasures. I havent decided which is my favorite book yet...mm..I think Obsidion Butterfly. The teamwork between Anita and Edgar was good and without all the hoopla of the politics. Just straight up action and, with a blissful lack of sex.

lol, I've only managed to read Obsidian once, so I don't remember it as much as some of the others... My favorite is Narcissus, simply because one of my favorites is Micah, and it was the first book I ever read by Hamilton.

OH, so excieted, got a call from Atomic Comic an hour ago, and my anita blake #5 just came in... yayayayayaaaaaa!!!

I am a disappointed reader of her's. I love love loved the Anita books until Narcissus in Chains. Quite honestly, if it weren't for the character of Narcissus, I would've sold the book. And in my opinion, the series has continued to go downhill ever since, because of the badly-done sex.

Between that and the author having gone a liiiiiitle (ok, a lot) loco, I've lost all interest in the new books. Which is a shame, because they were so good! :cry:

Originally Posted by Krowhop

0_0 Your joking! It has been going around the fan-forums for YEARS that they should make a movie per book, or a series, or something... to the extent that fan's have even voted for actors to fill the roles! But to think that someone has actually taken the concept and may be doing something with it... *sigh* I would imagine that it would not follow the storylines or plots of the books, but even having a series with the same type of concepts, with zombies, and such, would be well worth upgrading the cable!!!

*shrugs* it was close enough to the plot line that from a simple commercial I was able to identify a scene that was a hell of a lot like the Laughing Corpse, only with Richard already in Anita's life ^_^'

I liked her fantasy short stories in the Sword and Sorceress Anthologies but the Anita Blake stories just don't do it for me. Sorry to say it but I've seen better written porn on the Internet. For Vampires, I prefer L.A.Banks' Vampire series, it's more consistent. *sweatdrop*

Originally Posted by silrayn

I liked her fantasy short stories in the Sword and Sorceress Anthologies but the Anita Blake stories just don't do it for me. Sorry to say it but I've seen better written porn on the Internet. For Vampires, I prefer L.A.Banks' Vampire series, it's more consistent. *sweatdrop*

If I might hijack the thread a moment, what's L.A. Bank's series about (other than vampires, of course?)

Originally Posted by Ancasta

If I might hijack the thread a moment, what's L.A. Bank's series about (other than vampires, of course?)

Continuing the hijack, It's about Damali, a singer, and her band, going out to fight Vampires and assorted demons. They're actually the Vampire Huntress and her Guardians but they've got to pay the bills somehow as well as camouflage themselves. Damali's singing itself is a positive force and ties in with what she's doing. Her destined partner who was supposed to be a Guardian strayed from the path of righteousness and ended up a vampire and some of the troubles come from that. There are also lots of plots to try and produce a Daywalker which will happen if she gets pregnant with a vampire and getting turned is also serious bad mojo for a Vampire Huntress.

Sorry for the continuance of threadjack...