Beauty

Shame on you, Amazon, for not specifying this novella is merely erotic fiction. This is literally just an extended sex scene, and not a very good one at that.

It’s OK, but not anything special. The love scene is nice and it features my two favorite guys, but she rambles a lot. Half of the very short story was spent on wet shirts as lingerie, zombie guts, Anita not believing she’s pretty so Jean Claude has to tell her repeatedly, and a very long description of the orgy bathtub’s never-ending supply of hot water.

Wow, I am so tired of reading about how HUGE her boyfriends are,, how beautiful, etc. I actually like Micahs character because he is kind and gentle, same with Nathanial, but i am sick of the multi chapter sex scenes. I’m so unimpressed. I actually enjoyed her first books before she went nuts on the graphic sex scenes, and believe me when I say I’m no prude, but it gets old. And I think she must have several phrases set on macros because they say word for word the same thing in each book, such as the comments about her eyes, or her hair or her eight, or etc etc. I think it’s time to give up on the series. They and Beauty suck!

I love Anita as much as any fan can, but I wish I hadn’t spent money on this one. It’s simply a chapter of sex. There is no plot. I should have read some reviews on it before I bought it, but I didn’t because I thought “It’s Anita Blake, what are the odds that it’ll suck?” You can completely skip this “book” and move on to the next in the series with no harm, no foul. And yes, I know it said it was an “outtake”, but it’s really only a sex scene.

This was a complete ripoff, and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth about the author and what her current motivations are for continuing to write.

I saw her facebook post about it and clicked my way over here and bought it without reading the reviews first. I plead temporary insanity on that point, but fortunately for me I was able to ‘return’ it (use the ‘Actions’ button on the ‘Manage My Kindle’ page).

The content was far from ‘steamy’, unless you count what arises naturally from hot bathwater. One would think there should be some soul, some passion, some sensuality involved when one has 3 characters who are proven more than able to make a reader pant (back in the day). Alas, this is not the case here, and we are left with a dull, dry, cardboard-cutout version of what could have been. As has been pointed out in other reviews, the writing is juvenile and in desperate need of a thesaurus. And truly, LKH should get it through her head that flaccid bits are NOT sexy for the vast majority of women, many of whom read such things to mentally escape from flaccid bits. I’m assuming that’s who she’d like to be buying her books, so it is worth taking note of, one would think!

It’s not even porn, unless maybe you’re thinking of bad 70’s porn. At least -that- has comedic value.

It’s pretty sad when I can read an Anita sex scene and think “Oh that poor thing, she needs some GOOD seein’ to!”