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Title: Don't even bother
Review: I am over this series. Really, enough already. Based on the very strong plots of the first 6 books in the Anita Blake series, I have kept reading each new book hoping for more of the same. Instead we, the loyal readers, are treated to ridiculous amounts of sex with thinner and thinner plots holding it together. Truly, if you took the sex out of this last installment, there might be a good 50 pages of plot going on here.I'm no prude, sex can add a lot to developing characters and relationships in a series. But if Laurell K. Hamilton wanted to write a soft-porn series, why did she get us hooked on a good story line of regular fiction first? Seriously, she should just start writing another line under a pen name (a la Anne Rice) to indulge her fantasies. This would leave her free to reinstate the strong story lines that were a hallmark of the original Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series....a hallmark which is sadly lacking from Danse Macabre.
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