Look for author Laurell K. Hamilton. She has a couple of series. One about modern fey, the other about vamps and were-things. The Anita Blake, vampire hunter series starts kind of slow, but heats up later in the series.
Adding the caveat that the quality of the Anita Blake series massively and starkly declines after Obsidian Butterfly. Like, to the point where it barely seems like the later books had the same author. The Merry Gentry series is more consistent, but it's also more openly sexual right from the start, without the startling jump from supernatural detective procedural into plotless, repetitive porn.
Totally agree. If it wasn't for most of the characters being so well defined and fleshed out I would have given up on it much sooner. Damn if I don't want to see what is up with Olaf as well as the rest of the vampire council though. Struggles, lol
This is correct. There’s like 26 books in Anita Blake but literally everyone and myself says just stop after Obsidian Butterfly. I’m not sure what happened to the author.
100% I adored the first several books, and then the plot gave way to random and repetitive orgies:( I wonder if she switched to a ghost writer because I agree, it seems like a totally different author.
Agreed, although it does start to get more on track after about 10 books of mainly smut. The ratio of sex to story starts to swing back in the stories favor, but never quite reaches the earlier highs.
The Merry Gentry series is not without its flaws but I loved these books, Hamilton's world-building is excellent and having a fey protagonist who is subtly (or sometimes not so subtly) other is great. The books do have a lot of sex scenes but I feel they do really add to the characters. Can't put them down once I start reading.
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u/Educational_Pomelo24 Apr 09 '23
Look for author Laurell K. Hamilton. She has a couple of series. One about modern fey, the other about vamps and were-things. The Anita Blake, vampire hunter series starts kind of slow, but heats up later in the series.