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Chapter 25

The chapter starts with Anita leaving the bedroom to go to the bathroom. But when the last chapter ended, she was still in the bathroom. The last time she told us her location, it was to tell us that Remus was "invading our bath" (222). Between chapters 24 and 25, LKH forgot where Anita was. The best thing about this is that there's no reason for it. Anita tells us she leaves the bedroom (which she was not in) to go to the bathroom (where she already was) so she can tell us that the vampire Elinore is in the bedroom when she "returns" to the bedroom.

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I think LKH took a long break between the end of the last chapter and the beginning of this one, because they don't make sense together.

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CN: Anita Blake book (nothing really offensive this time except very bad writing)

This is around the fourth time I've tried to start this post. That's because this chapter is... wtf. What the ever loving fuck. It's actually not particularly offensive from a moral standpoint this time, unless you consider lazy writing for which people are expected to pay money to be morally bad, which I do. You know how in first drafts, lots of people write unrelated scenes with plans to link them up in the second draft? This is what LKH did here, but she never linked them up. Also, I think it's the worst chunk of writing yet, purely from a style standpoint. It's just plain bad.

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This chapter is a foreplay/beginnings of sex scene in an Anita Blake book. That means blabbering and Issues and manipulation and grossness and weirdness. This chapter isn't quite as blatant about its rapitude as the scene in which Anita and Jean-Claude raped everyone metaphysically connected to Auggie within a certain radius (how many miles does the ardeur reach, anyway?) But it is still explicitly not completely consensual. It reads to me like LKH set out to write a consensual sex scene, but she just plain could not make herself do it.

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CN: Anita Blake book, pregnancy, embarrassment squick regarding the author's romantic relationships

I am fine with, and even enjoy, an author writing her issues out in her work. But I should have to think, “hm, I think this writer has this issue, let me see if I can find evidence to support my idea,” rather than, “STOP DUMPING YOUR ISSUES ALL OVER ME FFS I AM NOT YOUR THERAPIST!” Also, they should not be incredibly petty; constant crapping all over your ex, who was apparently evil solely because he wanted monogamy, is not on. LKH barely files the serial numbers off regarding her real life here, and I think she owes everyone who reads this book $50.

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CN: Anita Blake book, pregnancy

I've been having a hard time continuing Danse Macabre because I have 18 more pages of bickering to get through until the characters start talking about something else. By the time I am through with this section, I will have read 50 straight pages of bickering. That's ten times as much bickering as sex in this book so far, and that's only counting this section, not the bullying of Ronnie or the strange arguments with Auggie and Thea. Plus it's entirely centered on how Richard is unhappy with Anita's sex life and how terrible he is for that. It is not only poor writing; like “Shutdown”, it's also embarrassing.

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This chapter makes me ill.

It consists of people sitting around talking about how they will control the lives of people who are not there. To make it even more special, it's men sitting around talking about how they're going to control the sex lives of a woman and two teenagers. A man might have to kill his wife because her sexuality is oh so dangerous, and he might have to kill one of his sons too because said wife's dangerous sexuality might drive said son crazy if she rapes him, and of course the only thing you can do with a crazy person is kill them. To wrap it all up, this whole thing is to force Anita into possibly having sex that she didn't want to have, because if she doesn't do it a man will be forced – forced I tell you! – to murder his wife and probably one of his children too.

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This chapter is contemptible. All of them have been so far, but this one – this one. Anita's experiences in the book before this have been somewhat removed from what humans can actually experience, making her heinous morality a little bit unreal, and giving LKH the cover of fantasy. But in this one... you'll see.

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So... sex scene. I guess. I swear a lot in this one.

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CN: Anita Blake book, treating people like food 

Picking up where we left off on page 62, Anita is telling Auggie that if he wants a woman of Belle's* line, he'll have to court them, as JC isn't going to make anyone have sex against their will. This no-rape policy will last for about eight pages.

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