{"id":106,"date":"2005-10-03T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/replicatedmeat.nocturne.org\/wordpress\/?p=106"},"modified":"2012-11-22T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T23:28:58","slug":"guilty-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"

My current book is kind of vampire porn. Less self-absorbed than an Anne Rice offering, less explicit than Vampire Vixens<\/a>, the first Anita Blake novel is of the approximate quality of a decent Buffy novelization but rated PG-13 for adult themes. (So, a lot like Season 6, except for the part where Buffy novelizations are, as a rule, trashy.) The thing is, I heard that it turns into a real train wreck somewhere down the line, plus I have a soft spot for the undead as entertainment. So, here I am.<\/p>\n

In an alternate 1990s where our hero raises zombies for a living, vampires are lobbying for the right to vote, and bachelorette parties can be held at the vampire strip club Guilty Pleasures<\/a>, it’s easy to be jaded. But even an ex- vampire hunter can be caught by surprise when the police and the city’s master bloodsucker both want her to find a criminal who has been murdering very powerful vampires.<\/p>\n

Will vampires be slain? Will there be existential angst? Will there be a variety of possible love interests? Will our heroine have skills that are incongruous with her appearance, thus causing people to constantly underestimate her? All this, and<\/strong> a promise of more zombies to come in future books. So that’s alright, then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My current book is kind of vampire porn. Less self-absorbed than an Anne Rice offering, less explicit than Vampire Vixens, the first Anita Blake novel is of the approximate quality of a decent Buffy novelization but rated PG-13 for adult themes. (So, a lot like Season 6, except for the part where Buffy novelizations are, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1097,1098,685,1099,1100,237,1101,1236,532,1102,1103,1104],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-a-variety-of-possible-love-interests","tag-anita-blake","tag-existential-angst","tag-it-turns-into-a-real-train-wreck-somewhere-down-the-line","tag-kind-of-vampire-porn","tag-laurell-k-hamilton","tag-our-hero-raises-zombies-for-a-living","tag-paranormal-fantasy","tag-romance","tag-skills-that-are-incongruous-with-appearance","tag-vampire-murder","tag-vampires-are-lobbying-for-the-right-to-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}