Ardeur: 14 Writers on the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series by Laurell K. Hamilton & Leah Wilson

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton & Leah Wilson [Hamilton, Laurell K. & Wilson, Leah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction & Fantasy, General, Books & Reading, Fantasy, Literary Criticism, Erotica, Fiction, Occult & Supernatural
ISBN: 9781933771472
Google: Gdwm6YNeWIIC
Amazon: 193377147X
Publisher: Smart Pop
Published: 2010-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

Natasha Fondren is a writer who enjoys a different kind of domestication, too: she lives on the road in a little camper, moving from place to place as her restless spirit calls. Every night, she sleeps in a “puppy pile” with four cats and a husband. Her adventures can be read at natashafondren.com.

This essay sees in the ardeur some of what I saw in it eventually, but at first I, like Anita, was pretty horrified. We’re both control freaks and the ardeuris about losing control. It is the antithesis of all that hard-won refusal and discipline that Anita prided in herself. But without the anita would still be trapped in herself, in her denials. Without it she’d still be able to hide from herself.

But Devon Ellington also maintains that Anita gives the monsters more help than she gives her human friends. I know that Larry Kirkland vanished from the books when he married and had a child because he’s not a shooter. Anita and I are pretty frightened that we’ll get him killed. I think that would be too much guilt for Anita to bear. Dolph Storr’s about face from calm perfect policeman to near hysterical rage about his son, Darrin, marrying and wanting to become a vampire is still as puzzling to Anita as it is to me. I know he will get past it, but though Anita and Dolph are friends, they are work friends. The same is true of Anita and Zerbrowski. Anita never did, and isn’t likely to do, anything with either man; thatis just them and being just friends. It’s not the same way she was friends with ronnie sims.

Ronnie’s issues have smashed into Anita’s own, and hurt the friendship, but it was Lilth Saintcrow’s essay that hit it, I think. Ronnie didn’t see Anita as a rival for men because Anita didn’t chase them. She was content to let Ronnie hit that. Anita being sexually prolific has thrown Ronnie and made her uncertain how to react. I didn’t realize that Ronnie was one of those women who see other women as rivals. When Anita was safe they could be friends, but Anita is no longer “safe.” For books neither has been comfortable with their reversed roles. Anita is working on it, and I know Ronnie is, too. I honestly don’t know if they will mend their friendship, but the number of men Anita’s committed to must take up a lot of her time. Sex with that many men would be okay, but trying to date this many people, does Anita really have time for any other friendships? I didn’t do this on purpose, but I’m pretty sure if I was trying to date, or live with, this many men and still worked the hours Anita and I work that I’d be pretty short on time to go out shopping with the girls, too.

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