Title track.

Some general spoilers ahead, nothing very specific.

Finished Danse Macabre at lunch today and it was like Whoa~ went over 450 pages, better wrap it up! Aside from the lack of plot, I did enjoy the leveling up of the characters (not only Anita got to level up this time!). LKH also introduced a new powerful vampire, as well as continuing to build up the "Mommie Dearest" stuff, which should make for more interesting interludes in the next book.

I don't begrudge LKH the fact that 90% of the book was sex... BUT! I'd appreciate it if the 10% that was actual plot could somehow be resolved at the end. The book could have been longer (and maybe the font size a bit smaller) so that more actual story could have been worked into not too many additional pages, if she's under a page constraint. Instead, this was blatantly the first half of a book. I think this took place over one day and night. Maybe one day and two nights. Which makes me doubly glad I didn't actually buy it.

The smart thing to do, IMO, is to look at this on RPG terms. It makes more sense that way, with all the leveling up the characters are doing, the way new members are being added to the party, and the greater-than-usual focus on the main character as the center of the universe. In addition, this ties in the time frame neatly. A whole book shouldn't only cover 24-36 hours worth of story, but! A chapter in an RPG can definitely only cover that amount of time, especially if you think of all the sex as side missions that are, in fact, integral to the plot! And by the way LKH is writing, Anita's story will take lots and lots of books-- I mean chapters in order to have the story progress!

See? Fits perfectly!

I don't really want Anita's story to end because I like her world, I like her attitude, I drool over like her guys. But. Plot. Please. It would slake my thirst like Asher slakes Anita's ardeur.