It's All About Perception

Over on a book community recently someone asked for recommendations for zombie books (because they're doing a course in school/college about zombies in popular culture -- how cool is that!). Someone actually recommended Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series, because Anita's a necromancer who raises zombies for a living.

Right.

Now, I've read most of the Anita Blake series (though with all the plotless sex0r that's in there these days I'm slower and a lot more reluctant to pick up the new ones), and to call the books zombie books is a huge stretch. Even with the early books, back when Anita had a semblance of a career that didn't involve shagging, raising the dead wasn't exactly something she did all that often, or that took more than a few pages at most.

Anita Blake books zombie books indeed, pfft!