That's been the first time in a long, long time that I agreed with Laurell K. Hamilton. Of course, on the other hand: pioneered? Pretensions, honey, pretensions.

Although I don't know that heroines rode the moral line so much before Anita Blake. In the earlier books she was ruthless and made no bones about it, and I read an essay somewhere that implied she blazed a bit of a trail for heroines that were unabashedly killers. Since I'm bad at keeping track of what books came first, that's possible. If so, I appreciate that.