Jeroen Van Der Knaap Van Der Knaap itibaren Johariya Sheikh, Madhya Pradesh 470120, Indien
I know, I was all set to give up on the series but I found the next two books in a charity shop. Anita manages to get through a third of the book before she has sex; I was starting to worry that she'd keel over! There's an awful lot of talking going on instead and most of it covers ground already dealt with in earlier books. I had hope when Anita brought in Edward, a great character that she never sleeps with but he's grown soft in his old age. Olaf seemed to be a caricature of his scary self, just not as frightening as he was in Obsidian Butterfly. However I didn't put the book down thinking I won't be reading any more as it might seem that Anita can get this pesky ardeur under control and get back to the stories!
Just re-read it this past month, it wasn't so great anymore. It doesn't hold as well as many other of his books, the premise is fun, the story moves pretty well and has you engaged, it makes a solid point, but it's not as funny or as creative. In a lot of ways, this book comes across like one of the fictional novels by his fictional character Kilgore Trout. A really fun idea, from which we could garner all we really need or want to know in a paragraph or two recap in the context of another book.