SirJill wrote:I'd recommend Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, and Anne Rice, I suppose, but not Laurell K. Hamilton.
Yes, the characters are good. The writing? Awful. I read most of the earlier books (VampGrrl is right--I was so disappointed in Narcissus in Chains; I barely got through it) and the characters are wonderful, they're funny and they work well together but the writing...the style is just awful. So I'd say read them at your own risk.
Yeah, Narcissus in Chains is where it went south for me too. It was not one of my favorites and Cerulean Sins and Incubus Dreams were just a lot of sex held together by very series-inconsistent plot. Yet I keep buying them because I'm hoping she'll fix it, but I don't rush right out and get them the first day anymore.
See, I didn't mind her writing style... it was fine with me, but the editing and typos are awful- you'd think someone would read the things before they publish it. And sometimes there are glaring inconsistencies. Remember when they wrecked the car in the graveyard "something big broke underneath it" and the tow truck towed it off, Anita got a ride home from Larry... and woke up the next morning and jumped in the car and drove to a meeting?? If stuff like that and the typos turns you off to a book then you might reconsider, but if you can deal with that and move on then her books up to Narcissus in Chains are great. Anita's world really sucks you in. I think I read the first 5 or 6 on my vacation one year!
