Anita Blake is back with an ever increasing number of men around her! Richard (her werewolf ex-fiance) has been away studying and has been acused of raping a woman there. Anita runs to his rescue pissing off Jean Claude, but agreeing to take a collection of vampires, werewolves and wereleapords for protection. Going into the territory of a Master Vampire to free Richard from jail is going to cause problems as Colin is interpreting this as an act of aggression and looking to take over his territory.

When they get to the jail they are able to post bail for Richard who has been dating a variety of human and were women. It seems he won't have full sex with the human women in case he changes or is too violent, but he is working through his sexual hang ups with the were animals where he doesn't have to hide who or what he is. The sexual tension is still major between him and Anita who never slept together when they were in a relationship. Somehow they find time to get down and dirty between rotting vampires, magic human servants, saving trolls and corrupt policemen. Unfortunately Richard's family get caught up in the action when his brother and mother are kidnapped by the evil Mr Niley and his henchman.

Another great and gripping read. Lots of unpleasantness and I cannot stress enough this series is not for the screamish or sensitive! Some rather nasty things happen to Richard's family that don't even bear thinking about, but luckily they make it out ok. Anita's life is so complicated with her many many men, but it looks like she has finally found a mentor who can help her regain some control. I'm looking forward to the next in the series, although popular opinion is they go a bit downhill from here for a while. ( )

Even though its set outside of Saint Louis, this is one of my favourite A.B books. ( )

I picked up Blue Moon not knowing it was book 5 or 6 from her Anita Blake series so it seemed disjointed. I would recommend starting with the first book, Guilty Pleasures so you become familiar with the characters she picks up along the way. I initially didn't care for Blue Moon, but I picked up Lunatic Cafe and got a better understanding of how all of her characters fit into her life and started to like Anita much more. I then went and read all the Anita Blake books from the beginning. Hamilton obviously is working through some serious sexual issues in her own life because Anita becomes a walking vagina by the six or seventh book in the - seriously filthy. Hamilton introduces readers to the 'arduer' to explain why Anita's character suddenly becomes a nympho. I'm not bothered by sex in a novel -I just think Hamilton could have reigned in the arduer a bit more. In Blue Moon Anita has a very puritanical nature and her character often states that she 'doesn't do casual sex', and the next thing you know she doing the football, basketball and baseball teams simultaneously. If the ardeur is not fed, then she will die or go mad. Whatever. Still, I do enjoy the love triangle between Anita, Jean Claude and Richard. I wish she would stick to the that threesome as the core of her novels. I initially wanted Anita to be with Richard, whose a werewolf and not Jean Claude, the sort of femy vampire. I found Richard in the beginning books to be sexy and relatively normal, but Hamilton eventually makes Richard into an annoying, uptight self-loathing A-hole and I ended up wishing that Anita/Hamilton would just commit to one team -any team (Richard/Jean-Claude, Micha/Nathaniel, Jean-Claude/Asher, Damian/Anita or Jason/Anita). Anyhoo, the series is fun and when Hamilton sticks to Vamps, Werewolf's and Anita raising the dead to testify, the books are a fun read. ( )

Not as great as some of her earlier books but still a fun read. ( )

In retrospect, this was the turning point in the series. It's switching from an action series with some steamy sex scenes to an erotica series with occasional (but ever-diminishing) action scenes. In the process, Anita is moving from a scrappy heroine to a whiny annoyance.

I didn't mind reading this one, but it's downhill from here. ( )