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Title: Ardeur or Arduous??????
Review: I discovered Anita Blake when she was on the second novel of the series. I have been an avid reader ever since. No more.Frankly, I do not understand LKH's attachment to the "ardeur." This book was over 600 pages. I quit reading at 237. I was sooooooooo tired of Anita's endless self-searching and conscience-stricken monologues about whether she should have sex BEFORE she had sex again. There was only about 20 pages of real plot or conflict in 237 pages. That's less than ten percent. It started to feel like Anita was channelling Richard, a character who has always bored me to tears. The old Anita: morally certain, decisive and action-oriented was nowhere to be seen.If I didn't know that LKH had written this book, its bloated, overly focused sexual approach would have made me think I was reading Anne Rice.
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