Laurell K. Hamilton's books

This isn't a book review, per se, but it is a commentary or "review" about an author, so I'm putting it here anyhow.
I was listening to a bunch of Fear The Boot podcasts over the weekend (and if you're a Role Playing Gamer, you really need to check them out. GREAT programs. Skip 'casts 1 & 2, at least, though - they're not at all typical of their style and format. Listen to some later ones, then later on go do 1 & 2) and they mentioned something about Card Games (like Magic the Gathering) that struck a chord with me.

Their biggest complaint about Magic was that it built interest by "building up" rather than "building out". Explanation: every new expansion pack got BIGGER! BETTER! COOLER! MORE POWERFUL! instead of building interest in the game by developing a richer, more complex game or world.

And this brings me to LKH's books.
I think, after reading many not-so-positive reviews of Laurell K. Hamilton's latest books, and especially the Anita series, that this is the problem people are seeing with her material, as well.
Anita's getting more and more powerful, but unfortunately not really more mature. LKH is "building up". It's almost as though she's saying "what can I add to Anita to make people come back and check it out again?" instead of saying "how can I make Anita and her world richer and more interesting? How can I get people to care about Anita and her friends even more, so they feel they must come back?"

I don't really care about Anita-the-Superfreak anymore. Ho hum, she's got another Were animal. Whoopee. Y'know who I care about now? Nathaniel. Why? Because he's not a Super. He doesn't have superpowers, he's not a SuperPowerful Necromancer Vampire Human Servant Triumvirate Maker With A Vampire Servant To Call His Own and The One Who Will Go Up Against Belle Morte And Win And Probably Also Put The Mother Of All Vamps To Sleep Again - Maybe Permanently. Nope, he's just Nathaniel, who's doing the best he can with what he's got. A "normal" Were (as normal as anyone gets in these stories), doing normal Were things, and being the very best Nathaniel he can be.

I don't care about Anita anymore. Why bother? She'll get out of whatever situation she's in because she'll Develop Another Superpower or her current ones will get her out of it somehow. Again. Yawn.

LKH, please, we - your fans; remember us? - are begging you to please please please "build out". Make Anita more interesting, more vulnerable, more human, rather than just a SuperFreak with Really Powerful Enemies.