Title: Bulked Up Novella ... & Not A Good One
Product review: Ms. Hamilton has always been a spotty writer. Some of her stuff is brilliant, some of it tepid. The serious issue with MICAH is that it isn't a novel.The actual page layout and filler content makes it painfully obvious Hamilton had to stretch this very incomplete and hollow story-- which removes Anita Blake with one of her lovers to Philadelphia in order to narrow the focus-- falls flat.Characters are introduced without further exploration, and the experimental feel of the piece makes gaping holes more noticable. We don't really feel any significant exploration of the relationship between Blake and Micah, nor do we ever really get any worthwhile plot regarding the brief "murder" trial it centers upon.The book feels like Hamilton did a character sketch, stretched it to a short story, and either conned her publisher (or was conned by them) to make a novel out of it.More Merry Gentry, please. Anita needs to retire... she is so clearly TIRED.
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