...while I enjoyed it (I think), I didn't love it enough to continue.
Aww. I've fallen behind a few times over the years, but I've always tried to keep up.
Or maybe I was put off by what appeared to figure heavily into the plot of the second book ... I was not overly fond of werewolf stories at the time.
Aaah. Yeah, not only do werewolves figure heavily in Fool Moon, but there are a variety of werewolves in it.
People can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, of course.
Personally, I think most of the time when a particular author and character are singled out as having defined a genre it's an oversimplification. It doesn't matter whether the people being singled out are Tolkien and Frodo, Joss Whedon and Buffy Summers (I know, while the TV series wasn't launched until '97, the idea predates the first Anita Blake book,) and Jim Butcher and Harry Dresden. That said, I know what's generally considered urban fantasy these days is viewed as having begun to develop in the 1980's, and from the first Dresden Files novel in 2000 Butcher has drawn a lot of the tropes together in his series. He is a leading author in the genre.
And my answer to "who would win in a fight between him and Isaac Vainio?" ... Was I the only one thinking this?
I haven't tried Libriomancer so I don't know how the two compare, but I'm guessing for a fair fight they need to be compared first book to first book. The latest Harry book was the 14th. He's been through a lot since that first book.
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Date: 2013-03-05 01:01 am (UTC)Aww. I've fallen behind a few times over the years, but I've always tried to keep up.
Or maybe I was put off by what appeared to figure heavily into the plot of the second book ... I was not overly fond of werewolf stories at the time.
Aaah. Yeah, not only do werewolves figure heavily in Fool Moon, but there are a variety of werewolves in it.
People can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, of course.
Personally, I think most of the time when a particular author and character are singled out as having defined a genre it's an oversimplification. It doesn't matter whether the people being singled out are Tolkien and Frodo, Joss Whedon and Buffy Summers (I know, while the TV series wasn't launched until '97, the idea predates the first Anita Blake book,) and Jim Butcher and Harry Dresden. That said, I know what's generally considered urban fantasy these days is viewed as having begun to develop in the 1980's, and from the first Dresden Files novel in 2000 Butcher has drawn a lot of the tropes together in his series. He is a leading author in the genre.
And my answer to "who would win in a fight between him and Isaac Vainio?" ... Was I the only one thinking this?
I haven't tried Libriomancer so I don't know how the two compare, but I'm guessing for a fair fight they need to be compared first book to first book. The latest Harry book was the 14th. He's been through a lot since that first book.