Okay, LJ was being evil the last time I tried to reply so:
1.) Of course Perry has to be injured, if not killed, for following the rules (which he was hired to enforce), trying not to kill people, and daring to disagree with the Great and Powerful Oz. That'll teach him. (No, really, see if it doesn't.) Still, I have to wonder if it isn't less his "evil Grandma" making him nervous around Anita and more his own abilities/Vadun practices letting him know that the soul in that (tiny, Lovecraftian) body is pure evil.
2.) The fact that those shot people have fangs in no way makes them not-children. They might still be fifteen and vampires. So no, Smith wasn't wrong to freak out and call her a monster. (But I doubt he'll live to see the end of the novel.) And I think very, very poorly of Zerbrowski for being okay with her shooting teenagers, human or vampire. But, even if he had all the prejudices of his 'verse, he should've freaked out about the time he realized that she was perfectly cool with plugging actual, human tweens and teenagers.
3.) All that blather about psychics on the force and psychic testing is retconning and reconning Tammy Reynolds since that was the reason that she was originally put in RPIT. All cops having psychic guts is new and Zebrowski being anything over a magical dud is new but I don't think the testing or the experimenting with pairing magical/non-magical partners is new. I think that's an old plot point that she recycled not only from herself but from her earlier work in this same series. And not in the awesome literary way.
4.) They're not as good as dead. She said they'd be killed *if* their bite marks matched those on the bodies. I strongly suspect that depends on who does the measuring. Anita, for instance, would probably eyeball it and say "Close enough." Then murder them. Larry, however, would probably get out the damn tape measure and do it right. (Come to think of it, he hasn't been in any of the more recent books. Maybe he's working to distance himself from Anita? Or his wife is acting like an anti-Anita talisman with all her nasty special-ness and girl cooties.)
5.) she has to change in order to keep the Preternatural Endangerment Act in effect. This is nonsense and the worst kind of non-logic. LKH just threw that in there because she didn't want to go back and take out the part where Anita takes off her pantyhose in front of Zerbrowski.
6.) taking the heads and hearts of the vampires she killed I had a moment where I wasn't sure why we were killing the obviously defeated teenage vamps instead of taking them to the hospital for trauma care and blood transfusions. Then I remembered what book this is.
7.) he was looming over me, snarling in my face" about how he wants her to do her job. This is not an unreasonable request. His interpersonal skills could use some work but, since it's utterly bizarre for most humans to act like that, I have to assume that Billings knows who he's dealing with and behaving accordingly.
8.) I could taste his rage on the roof of my mouth Proof that Anita is inhuman! There are no taste buds on the roof of your mouth. True facts.
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Date: 2013-12-09 09:28 pm (UTC)1.) Of course Perry has to be injured, if not killed, for following the rules (which he was hired to enforce), trying not to kill people, and daring to disagree with the Great and Powerful
Oz.That'll teach him. (No, really, see if it doesn't.) Still, I have to wonder if it isn't less his "evil Grandma" making him nervous around Anita and more his own abilities/Vadun practices letting him know that the soul in that (tiny, Lovecraftian) body is pure evil.2.) The fact that those shot people have fangs in no way makes them not-children. They might still be fifteen and vampires. So no, Smith wasn't wrong to freak out and call her a monster. (But I doubt he'll live to see the end of the novel.) And I think very, very poorly of Zerbrowski for being okay with her shooting teenagers, human or vampire. But, even if he had all the prejudices of his 'verse, he should've freaked out about the time he realized that she was perfectly cool with plugging actual, human tweens and teenagers.
3.) All that blather about psychics on the force and psychic testing is retconning and reconning Tammy Reynolds since that was the reason that she was originally put in RPIT. All cops having psychic guts is new and Zebrowski being anything over a magical dud is new but I don't think the testing or the experimenting with pairing magical/non-magical partners is new. I think that's an old plot point that she recycled not only from herself but from her earlier work in this same series. And not in the awesome literary way.
4.) They're not as good as dead. She said they'd be killed *if* their bite marks matched those on the bodies.
I strongly suspect that depends on who does the measuring. Anita, for instance, would probably eyeball it and say "Close enough." Then murder them. Larry, however, would probably get out the damn tape measure and do it right. (Come to think of it, he hasn't been in any of the more recent books. Maybe he's working to distance himself from Anita? Or his wife is acting like an anti-Anita talisman with all her nasty special-ness and girl cooties.)
5.) she has to change in order to keep the Preternatural Endangerment Act in effect.
This is nonsense and the worst kind of non-logic. LKH just threw that in there because she didn't want to go back and take out the part where Anita takes off her pantyhose in front of Zerbrowski.
6.) taking the heads and hearts of the vampires she killed
I had a moment where I wasn't sure why we were killing the obviously defeated teenage vamps instead of taking them to the hospital for trauma care and blood transfusions. Then I remembered what book this is.
7.) he was looming over me, snarling in my face" about how he wants her to do her job.
This is not an unreasonable request. His interpersonal skills could use some work but, since it's utterly bizarre for most humans to act like that, I have to assume that Billings knows who he's dealing with and behaving accordingly.
8.) I could taste his rage on the roof of my mouth
Proof that Anita is inhuman! There are no taste buds on the roof of your mouth. True facts.