Agreed. Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite writers, but the last novels haven't really done it for me.
Fell off the Anita Blake-series looong ago.
Me, too. It's been, gosh, 16 or 17 years since I picked up "Guilty Pleasures" and fell in love with it. I still respect LKH for pretty much inventing the urban fantasy subgenre, and I've read a lot of quality UF in the past 16 years. But I stopped reading Anita Blake after "Narcissus in Chains" because I just couldn't anymore. Could. Not. The scenes that took up 100 pages of book but were meant to convey only a few minutes of real time...every single male character in love with Anita Blake...the repetitive writing (I swear she copy-pasted some passages from one book to another)...the nonsensical plots...the use of the word "cervix" in sex scenes. I was done.