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Thank you. A bonus the series is complete. Earlier this year I started Colin McCool thinking it was complete, only to find out it wasn't at the end. Was going to recommend it here, but not when it is unknown how it ends or if it ends. Nothing worse than a never ending series that the author doesn't know how to kill off at the right time and end it. Series are nice, but having too many I am waiting on to be continued is horrible. Many got picked to gap the time until a new Dresden book comes out ...
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THAT is hilarious. You know what series I'm annoyed about? Not only isn't finished, but has started that cliffhanger crap?
Colin McCool. The Junkyard Druid thing, right? Yes, it's NA (new Adult) or whatever, but I'd heard good things, and started reading it. I just read the newest one, and it TOO, like the last one, ends on a d*mn cliffhanger! That's almost always a KOD (Kiss of Death) from me.
I don't like being played for a sucker.
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I will pass then, same reason I am not starting Anita Blake. Just like you, I don't mind the scenes, but not at the cost of changing the genre of the series. And only reading until it goes downhill? Meh. I would always wonder if I missed out on something.
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It's kind of a shame. I really LOVED that series, through...Bloody Bones. Those 5 were terrific. In Killing Dance, if memory serves, that's when LKH (got divorced and) started writing a crapload of sex scenes, all explained away by the "munin" (spirit of a dead woman) was "riding" the heroine, making her previously celibate self into a whole new person. I hung on, mind you (at one point foolishly thinking that the Merry Gentry series would let LKH blow it out of her system), through...Narcissus in Chains or the following one, and I finally just gave up. I don't care how "super" you are, having sex with more people than you can count on the digits of your hands is just not attractive to me, and the plots COMPLETELY vanished. I mean, it started out with her being "The Vampire Executioner," the sourge of evildoers everywhere, and by the time the 10th book came around, she was the sofa of evildoers everywhere. (I referred to her as a blow-up doll for Supernatural Frat Boy parties). Yeah,
no. The mystery portion
completely disappeared, the cops disappeared, yadda. Half the damn dialogue was "do me do me do me," (watered down for the family-friendly MR atmosphere). Sorry, but I have other brain cells that need feeding.
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So you are saying usually the pressure comes from the publisher? Either you go add more romance, or you won't get any more books published.
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Not in the case of Hamilton, for certain. She got into a fight with her publishers around book 6, on this very topic (according to her own comments), b/c the publishers asked her to cut out all the sex, or the 'extra' sex, or whatever. She said that she fought back because she thought that they were being sexist; I remember commenting on her then-forum that I thought maybe they just wanted better writing than what was being served. (Given the absolute demise of decent plotting since her first divorce, I've always, always wondered--
who was it that was
actually plotting out the mysteries in that series? Those plotlines all seemed to completely poof, when she got divorced.) I seem to recall being thrown off her board at that point, or something along those lines. Forum? Honestly, I can't remember, it was a
while back. It took me a while to get over wishing she'd go BACK to the original storylines.
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At least it would be theoretically possible. 
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You'd have to reconcile a BUNCH of stuff. In Harrison, everybody has these recessive Supe genes, or something, show up due to some disease in...tomatoes, I think it was, whereas with Harry, all the supe stuff is supposed to have always existed. If memory serves, they'd also have to reconcile the Fae and their roles, too, but other than that, yeah, they could PROBABLY do a crossover. (Hope it wouldn't affect the Dresdens, though.)
Hitch