Just read the latest Laurell K Hamilton

This one was 'Bullet'. I can't remember the last one I actually bought, but I usually get them from the library with a weird mixture of impending disappointment and annoyance to the fore. I shouldn't do it. I know I'm going to get pouty remembering how fresh and good the first two or three were and how unutterably dire the series is these days, but it's classic train-wreck syndrome and I can't help myself.

And she did it again ::sigh:: Whole book covered 24 hours or so, Anita bonked everything that moved, and the exciting bit, you know, the actual PLOT was covered in a two page epilogue where she casually tossed out lines along the lines of 'After that, we all flew out to city X and defeated Y'.

I'm not making that up. Hundreds of pages telling us what new leather outfit or tarty dress Anita's changed into or the color of the silk sheets and then an actual exciting, important battle gets ONE FRIGGING SENTENCE.

The most annoying thing though was the frankly appalling editing. At least three times, I had to go back over a chunk of dialog only to realize that Anita said something twice and no one editing noticed and punctuated accordingly. So a phone conversation looks like this:

"Hi, how are you?"

"I'm fine, Anita, how are you and your harem?"

"Just dandy, thank you."

"I just killed a man."

"Did you, Anita? I hope it didn't interfere with the orgy?"


See what happened there in the middle? The editor didn't.