LMM's Reviews > Beauty

1st off, DON'T PAY FOR THIS.

Technically, it's 2 stars. It was OK, not a complete - 'didn't like' - but it gets one star b'c this should be free, end of.

LKH should be ashamed of trying to milk her loyal fans out of $2.99 for 20 or so pages of what this is & that is...a sex scene which made the cutting room floor. What? Her editor finally grew a set & decided to do her job & then b'c LKH hates anybody knowing better then her, decided to charge her fans for this redundant sex scene which didn't make the grade?

Pshaw.

Here's what we get;

- We hear about the blue, blue, blue of JC's eyes.

- All the marble in the bathroom & water levels.

- Asher's blue, blue, blue outfit.

- Anita still doubting how beautiful she is & that someone as beautiful as these 2 vamps can find her beautiful.

- How she prefers to suck a flaccid penis.

- How she's still a screamer.

- That LKH still has an aversion to writing the word "come" so instead, everyone says they're "going" or "about to go" which just sounds to me like someone's about to take a dump rather than having an orgasm.

- Oh & yes...and predictably we gets the usual jab in there about all the "whiner babies" (a.k.a. readers who have turned their back on this series) who are judgmental over Anita appearing to be a raging whore with a harem of men b'c in Anita's eyes, they're all jelly.

Um, er...she is a raging whore but you know what would be better than her always blaming others for perceiving her this way? Just accepting that she is one! Who cares? Bitch has the Ardeur & a harem of gorgeous, willing men all raring to hitch a ride on the Anita Gravy Train. So what already?

If that was my wish fulfillment fantasy I'd be a hooker too but you could bet, I wouldn't be agitated about how the fake people in my fantasy world perceived me! Oh no. I'd be doing it six degree Kevin Bacon style without a second thought. The only one who whines is Anita. Shut the F up already.

And let me just touch on the rudimentary writing. In most paragraph's, LKH was repeating the same word about 4-5 times. That's something I tend to find in Fanfic.

For example;

I knew that Jean-Claude had killed the person who did it, just like I’d killed the people who branded me with my own cross-shaped burn scar on my arm. Mine was a brand, not a holy object reacting to vampire skin, but they looked the same. The vampire wannabes that branded me had thought it was funny to mark me up like a vampire; they’d thought it was funny right up until they died. So who was I to throw stones that Jean-Claude had killed the person who branded him? Fair is fair.

or


They always looked blue, but they were so dark. Midnight blue with their double edge of black eyelashes like dark lace to frame the deepest blue I’d ever seen in anyone’s eyes. His eyes were a blue like deep ocean water,

Yet....yes I said yet....Anita sounded the most approachable she has in years. She actually had a slight sense of humor & there was talk of love, joy & laughter. It still didn't change the fundamentals of this little chestnut overall but hey...I expected hella' worse to be honest.

I can only guess Hamiltons' sales have been doing the downward spiral so badly that she aimed to get the Jean Claude devotees (me being one of them) back into the fold by trying to entice them with a teaser of him before the next novel released.

That's the only reason I can see for her not giving this to her fans freely. Shame on you LKH. Really. Why don't you just try writing a book worthy of all the years, money & time your fans have invested into you, your characters & their world you created?

Instead we get this pot shot.

Give us a break already.