Oh, it's time for another f***ing rant

[rurounihime]

Heh, so I was apparently a single chapter away from "Jean-Claude reverts back to his normal bastardy self because duh, it was much too fucking good to be true." I was also one chapter short of Anita joining up once more with the Church of Don't Take Responsibility for My Own Mistakes. Good to know nothing has changed much. *grumbles*

Fire, you might hate me for this.

Okay, before I get going, let me just say that I have already heard the arguments for "Richard gets hella whiny" and "Jean-Claude gets nicer." But as to the first, personally, I think he has a right to be acting like a jerk to Anita. If I were in his place, having loved her for quite some time, having gotten engaged to her, having committed myself to her in more ways than one, and then discovering that she up and slept with the first man she saw after running from my scary-ass werewolf self, I would be acting like a fucking jerk too! No joke. She deserves it, frankly, and the only thing standing in the way of her feeling the full amount of guilt she should feel is her willingness to ignore the fact that SHE FUCKING CHEATED ON HIM. CHEATED. "No, it's okay because Richard is a werewolf and he changed all over me and ate a guy, so naturally I shouldn't even openly acknowledge to myself that I screwed him over right after." I especially like the part where she held off on sex with Richard because of her ideal of being married before sleeping with anyone, and then had the audacity to accuse HIM of waiting too long to shag her. "Oh, you should have jumped my bones earlier like J-C did and then maybe I would have stayed with you!" Stroke of genius, Anita. Never mind the fact that you were the one always telling him you didn't want to go that far. And there he was, respecting that, all unsuspecting of your real thoughts. *rolls whole head because eyes are just not enough*

I also like how she seems to have a hypocritical view of her behavior: hmm, yes, werewolves are scary, especially when they change and eat people in front of you, but it's not as if you didn't know he was a werewolf, and it certainly is simple to berate him for eating someone two feet from you even after he has tried to explain that that's how the pack works. "Anita, the alpha eats the former alpha in a power shift. It's how things are done. Oh yeah, and didn't I tell you, vamps totally eat people for dinner every night and then go lie in their coffins being deader than a doornail. It's how things are done." So, you know, maybe some meditation is in order, Ms. Blake, in order to fully come to terms with the cultures of the men you are thinking about shagging.

And as for Monsieur Le Anne-Rice-Vampire-With-a-Suave-Accent, he's a bastard. He's many things I am biting my tongue against saying. Bar none. "Hey, here's a good idea: I am going to send Richard over to help Anita when I know they are having trouble, trouble that I am half responsible for, and while he's there, in her house, helping his injured werewolves in her bedroom and my helpless vampires down in her basement... while he's there, I am going to send hella roses and love notes to her, and have sexy aroma aphrodisiac candles all over the house just to get under his skin because the girl is mine and I am going to flaunt it like I flaunt my cute little tight 300-year-old ass in satin trousers." It makes perfect sense, doesn't it, why he kept their full powers hidden from each other after bonding. God forbid they actually make a deeper connection than he has with Anita. Well, Jean-Claude. Maybe you'll get lucky and Richard will lose control of his evil werewolf self and tear down the basement stairs to bite your head off.

I certainly wouldn't have an issue with some knock-down, drag-out Richard/J-C fighting. They need to do it. They need to. J-C has it coming.

Oh, and then, back to Anita. So sorry you are crying, love. So sorry Richard embarrassed you in front of your friends. So sorry Louie hates you, and Ronnie thinks you screwed up your life. SO sorry. And I am so LYING right now. Sorry about that instead. You fucked up royally, sweets. You can just reap what you've sown.

So if Richard gets whiny in the next few books, fine; I can see where he's coming from, and right now, I sincerely doubt I will ever truly dislike him, (yes, even IF his little TMI display in Anita's kitchen was out of line). If Jean-Claude gets nicer, he's going to have to kiss my ass fifty times while wearing g-string made of boiling tar and singing operatic apologies to both Richard and Anita before I even start to consider believing he has changed. And I really don't feel the slightest bit interested in Anita's woe-is-me plight. Too bad. You had it made. You blew it. Maybe you can pick up the pieces, but you better start right now.

Oh yeah, and Padma and that mofo SOB Fernando son of Padma's need to DIE. No one should ever be given that much power or that much immortality when they are as sick as those two.

Comments

[drowning-london.livejournal.com]

lol! So I haven't read the books in a while, and I should. I mean, I like the characters, I like that they've very human. BUT Anita, as you pointed out, is kinda stupid sometimes. And it just. Gets. Worse! I've read up to Obsidian Butterfly, I liked it okay. But when I started reading Narcicus In Chains, that was the last straw. I mean, it's like the entire story is focused around her having sex with as many OF THE MONSTERS SHE HATES as possible. And her relationship with JC just seems to get stronger and her relationship with Richard just deteriorates. Bleh.

[rurounihime.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I heard from my die-hard fan friends that the romance publishers that bought Hamilton out are slowly changing her series into a major smutfest. Which is stupid and disgusting, seeing as how cleverly the series started out.

I like Edward a whole lot, so I have been told Obsidian Butterfly is the book for me. ^_^

I have disliked Jean-Claude right from the beginning, waaaaaay back in Guilty Pleasures. Richard I liked immediately, and I think Anita is definitely stupid in Killing Dance, and then again in Burnt Offerings. And J-C is an asshole. Everything else, I've said above.

[drowning-london.livejournal.com]

I think Obsidian Butterfly was actually a pretty cool book. Plus, definate lack of super!smut content. You'll probably like it. I like Richard, he's a great guy and has all those lovely issues dealing with his problems. I completely agree that Anita acted as completely stupid as possible when it comes to that gooey TMI incident. And then fucking JC and not even considering it was messed up.... yeah. Pfft.

It's rediculous that they're wanting to change it into a smut-fest.... That's so stupid, it could be so amazing if it weren't for squeezing in graphic sex at every oppurtunity.

[rurounihime.livejournal.com]

Well, Hamilton's choice, but I think she's doing herself a major disservice.

[lauriegilbert.livejournal.com]

LKH on her blog has said the books will keep getting smuttier the more people complain about it, because "they're her stories to tell." I just consider them fanfiction now . . fun to read but leave 'em at the library afterwards.

[rurounihime.livejournal.com]

She should really listen to her public. Not a very smart business or literary move on her part. *loses even more respect for the series*

[fireelemental79.livejournal.com]

Scanning the gist of your complaints, you're right. Anita and Richard are a classic case of two people that just cannot be together. But Richard does get OHMYFREAKINGGODSOWHINYDIEALREADY! That's all I have to say. I loved him as much as anyone but he's got issues seperate from their relationship that makes him the biggest drag.

And yeah, Jean-Claude is a bastard.

Which is why, just as long as you don't (as I have mentioned before) talking shit about 1. Jason (my soulmate I swear to God!) 2. Nathaniel or any other kitty (IlovededededdaKitties!), or 3. Damian the sexy ass too hawt to be a redhead vikingpire, then we're good.

I distinctly remember thinking after the last smut-athon that Anita would be just better off if she could wash her hands of both JC and Richy. Too late, they have a triumverate. Well fuckadoodle-do.

[rurounihime.livejournal.com]

Having finished the book, all I can say is that Anita sure is self-righteous. All I'm sayin'.

And I can't bash your kitties. I hardly know them. ^_~

[fireelemental79.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes she is. She is a self-righteous bitch. Did I ever suggest otherwise?

[rurounihime.livejournal.com]

Dude. Wasn't attacking you. Just her.

[fireelemental79.livejournal.com]

SO AM I!!!!

;-D We start fights just by agreeing. It's bootiful.

[rurounihime.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, we are a special pair, ain't we?

[fireelemental79.livejournal.com]

Yes. Special in our heads.

[ones-disturbed.livejournal.com]

huh some one had the soame name as this one

[rurounihime.livejournal.com]

Wow. I always thought my lj name to be unique. *ponders*

[star-dancer54.livejournal.com]

See, as I've read up to Incubus Dreams, I must admit that I don't particularly like any of the first triumvirate... For various and sundry reasons. I think I can partially understand why Anita ran to JC, though. She had never run across such a situation as her would-be lover shifting on top of her, and then going to eat a guy's heart. I'll agree, it was stupid, but in this book she's damned naiive. It wasn't so much that she was running from Richard; she was running from herself. She was running from the fact that she wanted to join them as they - HE - ate Marcus. She hates the thought that such an inhuman thought existed in her head, so she wants to escape into oblivion for a while. That's where JC comes in. He's her oblivion to forget just how badly the shit's hit the fan.

But, then again, I haven't read the books recently, and the last one I read was ID, which wasn't so much about Richard... or JC, if I remember correctly. *shrugs* I just want to cuddle Nat, as well as the twins. Aw, hell, might as well throw in all the cats, too :D

[star-dancer54.livejournal.com]

Now, if you want to talk about sluttification, try reading her other series - A Kiss of Shadows, A Caress of Twilight, Seduced by Moonlight, and A Stroke of Midnight. Even the names are related to sex! :/

....

*has also just finished reading the latest of that series...* -_-

[rurounihime.livejournal.com]

I've heard about that series. But I am having a hell of a time even sticking with the Anita Blake stuff, so it's not really on my list to read. But thank you for the rec.

[star-dancer54.livejournal.com]

*snerks* Well, it's definately... unique. It's also quite cool, if you ignore all the sex, particularly the latest two, in the way that she describes the different cultures :D

[rurounihime.livejournal.com]

Yes, I finished the book and I understand what she was running from. But her behavior is still inexcusable and not really very explanable either, because JC is about as inhuman and monstrous as they get. If she wants to run from Richard, she should get her tennis shoes on and run from Jean claude as well... unless she's being a hypocrite, which she is. It's really too bad she still thinks (at this point, after Burnt Offerings) that she can justify one action and not the other.

[star-dancer54.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose that the reason Anita's not so freaked out about JC is that he ACCEPTS what he is. At least in this way, he is being true to himself and others. Plus, there's also the magic quality - Anita's death magic, and what is a vampire besides the walking dead? That might be another reason that she's drawn more to him - he's familiar, in that way. Maybe it was her magic more than anything else guiding her. *le shrug*