Guilty Pleasures by Laurel K. Hamilton

I really wasn't interested in reading the Anita Blake books, but a friend from work was reading them and let me borrow the first two novels of the series, so I thought I would give them a try. One of my managers had previously described Anita Blake as a female Harry Dresden, so I figured they can't be that bad, right?

After reading the first novel of the series I'm pretty sure my initial impressions of the series were correct. While the writing wasn't bad, and Anita Blake can be just as witty as Dresden, there's something very different about this series that kind of turns me off. I'm curious enough to read the second book, there were some things left unanswered, but I don't think I'll ever read the entire series. As my co-worker who lent me the books says, you just feel dirty after reading them. Not that there's a lot of sex in them ... at least not in the first one (I hear they eventually include a lot of sex) but they're still very sexual and gritty. I can't describe it well, but essentially they are extremely dark.

If you like trashy romance novels and vampires, you might enjoy this series. However, I just can't get into it. We'll see what happens after I read the second book.