Archive for September, 2007

I finally read my first Laurell K. Hamilton book. I found a couple of them cheap at a yard sale and because her name is bandied about so much I thought what the hell.

Narcissus in Chains. What a painful read. And not because its based around a BDSM club. The main character Anita Blake is a Dresden who prefers her gun(s) which is fine, but she’s so full of shit that I found it difficult to care enough to read through to the end. Every time the story started to move along everyone would stop to have an exposition conversation. Where in Dresden we’d get a paragraph or two explaining about this or that power, Hamilton takes the Stephen King route and gives us pages and page of useless details. And every time someone would enter a scene, we had to have a complete description of their attire or lack thereof. We get it. I lost track of how many times we learned they all slept tangled together like puppies. And the hair! Yes, lycanthropes all have glorious hair that needs to be described every time one enters the room.

630 pages of Nathanial’s glorious hair. And she’s not even fucking that one.

And she’s supposed to be so strong and intuitive, yet we find out at the end the big bad guy has been right under her nose the whole time. Oh please.

Actually, after hearing how Hamilton’s book are all about sex, and reading the blurb that this one was about a BDSM club I had high hopes. But there were so many painfully long descriptions of metaphysical connections and her feelings that I honestly can’t remember if anyone had real sex or not.

The other book I bought was Blue Moon, which is the book just preceding this one in order so duh me. I guess I should have looked that up before. Not that it matters as I don’t think I’m going to bother slogging through another Hamilton novel.