In search of some disposable lit to read, I took a look at Kim Harrison's Dead Witch Walking.
My reaction: it's incredibly, amazingly derivative of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake stories. The protagonist is a magical detective, in a world in which supernatural beings came "out of the closet" only a few decades ago. There's a lot of blood, and in this first volume only the tempation to sex. It's also like the early Blake stories in tone and in plot.
It's still better than the later (all-sex-all-the-time) Blake books, but in the end it's just thin and not original enough to be worth my time, or (I think) yours.
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2 comments:
"My reaction: it's incredibly, amazingly derivative of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake stories."
Oddly, this was the publishing company book reader's summary that secured the novel it's release.
Have you tried Hamilton's fairie detective books? I think they have even more sex than the Blake series, assuming that's possible. Less werewolf/vampire sex, though, and more goblin/whatever sex.
Ken, the publisher's reaction was apparently right. This is the first of a series that has already hit its third book.
Yeah, I've read the Merry Gentry books. In truth, they don't have any more sex than the last couple of Blake novels. They can't. As an exercise, remove all the sex and talk about sex from Cerulean Sins. The book is now about 20 pages long.
In another forum I describe the book as "Anita sleeps with several different men each day, and the writer makes lots of excuses about how this doesn't make her a slut."
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