Blood Noir

[Nyomimi]

So, I've seen a couple of LKH (Laurell K Hamilton) threads, but nothing recent -- so >__> I thought I'd start another. Anyone read Blood Noir yet?

 

[Marky Lazer]

No I didn't. But I like that title. It almost sounds like a sub-genre!

 

[Lirineth]

Yes, I read it.
Yes, I liked it
Sadly not as much as her previous ones.
This business of Annita thinking that Richard is eventually going to get it right, is becoming a bit tiresome, together with the fact that on one hand she has to bed everybody that side of the Atlantic due to some inherited problem from Jean-Claude (the ardeour) which apparently is fine and dandy, but at the same time she manages to have these homophobic hung-ups that frankly do not quite add up.
But ... funny enough, I liked the book, and I couldn’t put it down.
So I suppose that in a scale from one to ten, this one for me, would be a 7.5 towards an 8.
I admit that the books are kind of addictive, especially if you have read them all.
I am already waiting for the next one.
And yes, I can’t wait for the day she decides to accept Jean-Claude’s offer and become his servant fulltime, or better still ‘gets the bite’
The problem with me is that my books have to have a happy ending.

 

[Nyomimi]

Yes, I read it.
Yes, I liked it
Sadly not as much as her previous ones.

Well, remember. This is a novelette like Mikah. It's Jason's story.

This business of Annita thinking that Richard is eventually going to get it right, is becoming a bit tiresome,

She's going to keep thinking this, because she was madly in love with him. She was going to marry him for cripes sake! LOL. It's useless hope, but it's the hope she has, none the less -- and even she knows how hopeless it is.

together with the fact that on one hand she has to bed everybody that side of the Atlantic due to some inherited problem from Jean-Claude (the ardeour) which apparently is fine and dandy, but at the same time she manages to have these homophobic hung-ups that frankly do not quite add up.

Well, that's part of what makes Anita, Anita. She's not homophobic when the Adeur is riding her -- because it puts her in a state of mind to where she just doesn't care. It's when she's perfectly "sane," as much as she can be, that she becomes squeamish.

But ... funny enough, I liked the book, and I couldn’t put it down.

So I suppose that in a scale from one to ten, this one for me, would be a 7.5 towards an 8.
I admit that the books are kind of addictive, especially if you have read them all.
I am already waiting for the next one.

The next one will be a full novel -- not focusing on just one character.

And yes, I can’t wait for the day she decides to accept Jean-Claude’s offer and become his servant fulltime, or better still ‘gets the bite’

The problem with me is that my books have to have a happy ending.

I, myself, can't see this happening. She's too important to too many groups to give all her loyalty to JC, because you know he'd expect it. Jean-Claude is a beautiful, caring vampire -- but even he draws lines.

 

[Lirineth]

Nyomimi, how do you know that: the next one will be a full novel -- not focusing on just one character?

And if you know this, do you have any clue as to when this will happen?

Yes, you are right in saying that: She's too important to too many groups to give all her loyalty to JC, because you know he'd expect it. But on the other hand, loyalties or not it comes a time when we all have to make a choice. And all those groups, are like tearing A apart and she is getting tirered of all the bickering and so on, so it comes a time when you just want to be selfish, happy and cared for. Besides Ms Hamilton once said that A was going to be cured of her affliction (the ardour). By the way did you read the last book? I so what do you think?