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Beauty (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #20.5)
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Original Post THE UGLY SIDE OF BEAUTY on FANGS, WANDS AND FAIRY DUST 5-11-2012
BEAUTY
an eSpecial
Laurell K. Hamilton
Penguin
May 8, 2012
173 KB 33 pages
$2.99
If I didn't know that authors don't set the prices on books; have nothing to do with it in fact, I would say, "Ego, much?" I've read warnings on prescription bottles longer than this "out take". The excerpt from KISS THE DEAD (which should be free, right?) is as long as the story.
A lot of BEAUTY is Anita re-hashing her insecurities over having a Latina heritage and her massive inferiority conflict from her stepmother and her emotionally distant father. And, then there's the bit about being so lucky Jean Claude and Asher want her and how she loves to perform oral sex on an un-erect male. We've read it all before; maybe not the blow-job in so much detail. There's nothing new here except for a gun safe they installed because someone has a toddler.
Sadly, it's all LKH's really well-done prose, so the only fault I can find besides the rehash of Anita's inferiority complex is the cost. Most writers have longer works than this up online for nothing or .99 to thank their readers for their patience and loyalty. Charlaine Harris, even more well read than Hamilton, puts several free exceprts up before each book comes out. It's very gracious of her or her publishers. Charging $2.99 for this is NOT gracious.
The truth is that this is a rip-off. I don't think it was worth $2.99 and that if you have read any of the books from after Anita Blake finally making love with Jean-Claude you have already read this. Just go back and pick five or six pages and re-read them.
BEAUTY
an eSpecial
Laurell K. Hamilton
Penguin
May 8, 2012
173 KB 33 pages
$2.99
You’d think I’d get used to seeing such a beautiful man and knowing he was mine, but it never grew old, as if his beauty and the fact that he was mine, and I was his, would forever surprise me.
With a vampire like Jean Claude around, it’s far too easy for Anita Blake to doubt her own appearance—and the hold it has on those who love her. But one hot tub and two incredibly sexy men—Jean Claude and Asher—will make her feel like the most lusted-after woman alive…or undead. Not bad for a mere human…
“Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.”—Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
Includes an excerpt of Kiss the Dead, the new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel.
Beauty on Amazon.Com
If I didn't know that authors don't set the prices on books; have nothing to do with it in fact, I would say, "Ego, much?" I've read warnings on prescription bottles longer than this "out take". The excerpt from KISS THE DEAD (which should be free, right?) is as long as the story.
A lot of BEAUTY is Anita re-hashing her insecurities over having a Latina heritage and her massive inferiority conflict from her stepmother and her emotionally distant father. And, then there's the bit about being so lucky Jean Claude and Asher want her and how she loves to perform oral sex on an un-erect male. We've read it all before; maybe not the blow-job in so much detail. There's nothing new here except for a gun safe they installed because someone has a toddler.
Sadly, it's all LKH's really well-done prose, so the only fault I can find besides the rehash of Anita's inferiority complex is the cost. Most writers have longer works than this up online for nothing or .99 to thank their readers for their patience and loyalty. Charlaine Harris, even more well read than Hamilton, puts several free exceprts up before each book comes out. It's very gracious of her or her publishers. Charging $2.99 for this is NOT gracious.
The truth is that this is a rip-off. I don't think it was worth $2.99 and that if you have read any of the books from after Anita Blake finally making love with Jean-Claude you have already read this. Just go back and pick five or six pages and re-read them.
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