Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter in Guilty Pleasures #3
I've read the first three issues of this series, because I like vampires, and I like vampire slayers. But each issue has left me hoping even more for a coherency of plot in the next issue. And each issue has disappointed me more than the one previous. This is nothing more than a trashy romance novel dressed up in supernatural clothing and illustrated. The concept itself is very rich, which is why I'm so disappointed: Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies and the like having become integrated into American society and its legal system is a fascinating concept. But instead of exploring that (for those of us who've never read any of the AB books), we just get creepy, trashy monologuing about glorified mind rape and forbidden attraction in page after page, and pictures of perfect body vamps with open shirts, and gratuitous shots of our heroine having her clothes torn off and being mentally dominated. This is not a good series by any stretch of the imagination. This is not even an okay series. This series is completely and utterly ASS. Is anyone actually buying this? What is the logic behind it? Even that title is so preposterous and pretentious that it's insulting.
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