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Basically? Good story ruined by an unlikable heroine and over-the-top brutality. I don't like Anita Blake and when you don't like the main hero it's hard to like their story. I mean, Anita is tough as nails, sure, but to play with the bloody, torn-apart remains of a three-year-old just to one-up her male colleague and win a bet... That turned my stomach. The story itself was interesting but it seemed like the author loved to make Anita wade through brain tissue, bits of human meat and bones and
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I would classify the Anita Blake books as Erotic Horror. There are Vampires, Werewolves 🐺 and other were animals (both good and bad), as well as legal Zombie raising for the purpose of asking questions of the dead (wills, criminal witnesses, etc). They start out fairly straightforward Zombie raising (Anita's job) and then her life starts to get complicated as she becomes more involved with the "Monsters" on a personal level. Expect fairly explicit sex that increases as the series progresses, as
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This is the second book in the Anita Blake series.
I don't know what made me wait this long to read the second book although I totally enjoyed the first one.
Harold Gaynor offers Anita a million dollars to rais an ancient zombie, but since that means sacrificing a white goat, she declines.
Then a the most dangerous voodoo priestess offers a partnership with Anita that she also declines.
Meanwhile dead mangeled bodies are turning up everywhere, which means a serial something is out there, could it be ...more
I don't know what made me wait this long to read the second book although I totally enjoyed the first one.
Harold Gaynor offers Anita a million dollars to rais an ancient zombie, but since that means sacrificing a white goat, she declines.
Then a the most dangerous voodoo priestess offers a partnership with Anita that she also declines.
Meanwhile dead mangeled bodies are turning up everywhere, which means a serial something is out there, could it be ...more
If the first book seemed a bit slow, this one made up for it. It was fast-paced, and Anita is feisty and easy to like. We share a particular stubbornness, which is perhaps why I enjoy her. And it is solid urban fantasy. The fantasy aspect is so perfectly woven into our world. Seamless. The side characters are entertaining. The 'bad guy' in this was terribly creepy, and she was dealt with in the end in such a way that makes us grin and shudder all at the same time.
Onto book three.... ...more
Onto book three.... ...more
Feb 27, 2012
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