Other end of the gamut from Kay Scarpetta

[scarfman]

I'm reading a recent Anita Blake novel that I picked off the shelf in the staff lounge. Now the last time, or second-to-last time, I read a couple of these, I recall editing the heroine's banter with the villain for unnecessary length. I actually scripted my revisions and almost drew them for my fanfiction site with Buffy in the lead. Whatever that says about the novel, it wasn't without fun and I was kinda looking forward to doing it again. But I realize it was, after all, the second-to-last time, because I'm reminded now that the last one of these I read had almost no villain scenes in it. I'm reminded because neither does this one. I'm about a quarter fifth of the way in, and so far Anita's spent a single scene on the crime investigation which the inside front cover claims is the book's plot. The rest of 142 pages has been spent beating off prospective sex partners with a Mary Sue stick. Which, as we all know, backfires. Inevitably, spectacularly and often. I should've known when I saw the word incubus in the title.

So since I couldn't write what I expected to, I wrote this, which was fun too.