What are you reading right now? (possible RotE spoilers)

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The later books become a bit better actually. Stories more, really... all below 100 pages...

The hardest part is that it seems each book only has a few minor parts in common (beyond same world, of course)

Sort of like taking a single character or three that is only mentioned in one book, then focusing on them in the second. and new ones for each book. Some parts are fairly predictable, though... The concept of "true love"/"soulmates" is rather ingrained in the whole. The quality of the stories is still mediocre, but the world is well-built.

No wonder there's a lot of stories in her (L. J. Smith's) worlds written by ghost writers... The worlds are excellently built, yet the stories stuck onto the worlds aren't nearly as excellent.

Even at its mediocre level, it is better than the later stories in the "Anita Blake" world. This at least is consistent in quality. Those "stories" were just excuses for the author to stick in silly amounts of low-quality erotica.