Anita and Jean Claude get closer. Larry is taken along for a little more training.

The big bad:

Bloody Bones (immortal being that give magic to unseelie fairy family that captured it).

Mr. Stirling, who needs Anita to raise a cemetary of 200+ years dead.

Serephina, another master vamp, who has grown in power enormously since last encountering Jean Claude. ( )

While not perfect, I think this has been the best of the series so far. I've always loved the plot action in these books but found the over-the-top caricaturization of the main character incredibly annoying. In this installment Anita actually makes mistakes, she experiences doubts, desire, and even some defeat which goes a long way towards making her a character rather than just a caricature. Giving her a side-kick, and thereby a mirror in which to see herself differently, really helped add dimensions to her. Yes we still have to hear about her black Nike's and her inner-pants holster (time after time), but she comes across as much more natural in this book. That, along with a wide and varied host of new monsters, made for an excellent read. ( )

IMO the best book of the series.

Anita and Larry are hired to settle a land dispute. Sound simple, right? Oh, you naive little carbuncle! Anita realizes she is being lied to by the fat cat elite and then...murder most foul! A vampire pedo is hacking up the good citizens of Branson, MO....or is he?
Add to the mix rotting vamps....in a sex scene. Still not hot enough for you?

Let's throw in a badass master vampire, Serephina, whose knowledge of Anita's mommy issues could be our zombie queen's downfall.

This is the last of the really good Anita Blake novels, so enjoy it while it lasts. ( )

Another great book in the series. I can not get enough! ( )

A sorozat első négy kötetét már olvastam, és nagyon tetszett, az ötödik is jónak ígérkezik. Már amit eddig olvastam belőle. ^^ ( )

See Guilty Pleasures. ( )

The Anita Blake series starts out well, but really begins to turn toward the victim-as-passion pretty soon. If you're into that, then these deliver, but it's really not my thing. By the time we get well into the series, Hamilton's Blake is pathetically power hungry and driven by a sense of acceptance from men that would have any truly independent person retching in the aisle. Eventually it devolves into farcical S&M exploration, delivering light porn, but not truly erotica. If you don't want to admit what your hungers are to yourself, then these are books made for you, as I Blake (and possibly by extension Hamilton herself) suffers from the same plight. My favorite character of all is Edward, and we really never do get to see enough of him.

Rating : 4.5/5
Reason for reading : Summer Reading Challenge, recommendation
Number in series : #5 Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

This time Anita travels outside her home town of St Louis but stays within Missouri to help a client raise a hill-full of 200 year old dead zombies to settle a land dispute. The area has been ploughed by diggers mixing up the bodies whose names are not even known, making her task even more difficult than it would be. Alongside this the bodies of three teenage boys are found nearby, killed by a vampire and slashed with a sword. A teenage girl is then found, again killed by a vampire, in her bedroom. Looks like it will be a busy week for Ms Blake...

I enjoyed this book a lot. Bringing in the fey worked well and having a paeophile vampire was suitably disturbing to say the least. Expanding Larry's character was also a plus, I am wondering what he will turn out to be as he has been declared not human either like Anita. He is not a necromancer though like her so that will be interesting later on. The sexual tension between Anita and Jean-Claude continues to build (will she manage to keep her no-sex-before-marriage vow or no-sex-with-the-dead vow? Which is more important to her now?) which will be interesting in the next book.

The ending was really well written and without leading directly into the next book, definately hooks the reader in to see what happens next. ( )

I just don't get tired of the Anita Blake books. The dialogue here may be a bit more trite than in some of the others, but the story is there and the characters as interesting as ever. ( )

So tell me, who is the beautiful vampire Jean Claude? This book really takes you deeper than any of the others into his character. You find out a bit about his making and how his first years as a vampire were. Maybe that’s why he’s the way he is now? All in all, it was a good read, but I would have liked to see a little more of Richards character. Oh and let me say “Anita, Why are you waiting for Marriage!?” ( )

This is my absolute favorite Anita Blake book, which may be because I accidentally read it before any other book, but it has everything I like about the series: paranormal police investigations, Larry Kirkland, Jean-Claude (pre-NiC), vampires, and other preternatural nasties. It's a great, well-rounded novel. ( )

This one was really gruesome. Not for the faint of stomach, but enjoyable as most of Anita Blake. ( )

"Come morning, some of us would be alive and some of us wouldn't.... Of course, maybe there was just the one newly dead vampire to deal with. If so, we might all see the sunrise. But I hadn't lived this long assuming the best. Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer."

This is what you want from a Vampire Hunter novel. Scary, omnipotent vampires, lots of slaying, biting, slashing and assorted other forms of violence and mayhem. In between a little sexual tension with not quite as scary vampires with dashing good looks. Some zombie raising and general sleuthing mixed in and voilà, an extremely entertaining Anita Blake novel comes your way. Bummer, now I have to wait for #6 to reach me.... Will I survive the tension of having to wait for what will happen next with Jean-Claude? I liked him a lot better in this novel, he has become a little less creepy and more likeable. But what is it with those frilly shirts? I also liked how Larry developed in this one. And Anita's powers are becoming more interesting with every instalment. ( )

In Bloody Bones Anita heads out of town, to do a necromantic gig. She has young Larry, a fellow employee along for the ride, and is trying to teach him enough to stay alive.

She has to work out whether vampire serial killings are happening, and what the strange, deadly supernatural force is, and what to do about it, while dealing with yet another different bunch of supernaturals in fae types.

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Decent. Nice to see a little change of scenery, and some other sides of the magic world there. ( )

I very much enjoyed the first few books of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series. Unfortunately the series seems to be going downhill fast. The books are starting to drag, the plot is getting thinner, and the series seems like it should be renamed soft porn with vampires. I can't take much more of this series. ( )

Bloody Bones was just really good. Anita seems so much more human. It's funny because she's always going on and on about the other "monsters" and how Jean Claude the vampire isn't human but Anita had too much of an idealistic quality about her before this book. You could see changing starting in Lunatic Cafe, the title before this on, but the changes are really happening.

It's hard for me to imagine this as a stand alone title because so much of the previous books brings meaning to this one.

All in all...continuing a great series for vamp fans. ( )

Anita is called away from St Louis to raise a cemetary for a contractor in the middle of a land dispute. The prime real estate is owned by the Bouviers who happen to be fae and do not want their ancestral developed on whatever the cost. Anita and,her apprentice, Larry are quickly called away to a police scene, where a teenage girl has been murdered in her bed; the complicated part is that her vampire lover bit her before she died.

The local cops aren't welcoming towards Anita and her investigation into who killed Ellie the local girl, is hindered by the usual vampire politics, enter Jean Claude, Anita's paramour, to smooth vampiric waters. The local Master, Seraphina has designs on Anita and wants her to be her human servant. Add what could be a vampire serial killer and paedophile to the mix along with two fae and you have a rocket ride of a mystery. ( )

This is one of the weaker of the series. It is still good though. ( )

The 5th in a series about Anita Blake, vampire hunter.An incredible, exciting, sexy book. Full of horror and romance. Edge of your seat read. So much fun to read. This series is highly addictive. ( )