Laurell K. Hamilton
Author of Guilty Pleasures
About the Author
Laurell K. Hamilton was born in Heber Springs, Arkansas on February 19, 1963. She received degrees in English and biology from Marion College, which is now Indiana Wesleyan University. She writes the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series and the Meredith Gentry series. (Bowker Author Biography)
Series
Works by Laurell K. Hamilton
Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures Handbook 24 copies
Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures #4 14 copies
Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures #10 8 copies
Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures #12 7 copies
Anita Blake, Books 1-10 4 copies
Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures #11 4 copies
Meredith Gentry, Books 1-5 4 copies
A Clean Sweep 4 copies
The Complete Meal Prep Instant Pot Cookbook for Beginners: Quick, Healthy and Delicious Instant Pot Recipes for Clean Eating & Weight Loss (2018) 3 copies
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter : Guilty Pleasures 1 and 2, The First Death, The Laughing Corpse, Book 1 (2009) 2 copies
Magic Like Heat Across My Skin 2 copies
Those Who Seek Forgiveness 2 copies
Laurell K. Hamilton - Set Of 6 Books - Guilty Pleasures - Cerulean Sins - Blue Moon - Circus Of The Damned - The Lunatic Cafe - Kiss The Dead. (1996) 2 copies
Anita Blake, Books 11-12, 14 2 copies
Anita Blake, Books 6-10, 12-13 2 copies
Vampire Hunter 13 - Micah 1 copy
Vampire books 1 copy
Anita Blake, Books 2-3, 5-8 1 copy
Laurell K. Hamilton 18 Books 1 copy
Meredith Gentry, Books 1-6 1 copy
Anita Blake, Books 3-5, 7-10 1 copy
A token for Celadin 1 copy
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series 4 Books Set (#21 - #24): Affliction, Kiss the Dead, Jason, Dead Ice (2022) 1 copy
Laurell K. Hamilton 3 Pack. Save! Circus of the Damned, the Laughing Corpse, Guilty Pleasures (2002) 1 copy
Galahad (Mageverse #1.5) 1 copy
Cupid is a Knavish Lad 1 copy
Website 1 copy
Blood Upon My Lips 1 copy
A lust of cupid 1 copy
Associated Works
Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between (2006) — Introduction, some editions — 120 copies, 1 review
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- Legal name
- Hamilton, Laurell Kaye
- Birthdate
- 1963-02-19
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Indiana Wesleyan University (English, Biology)
- Occupations
- novelist
- Awards and honors
- #1 New York Times Bestselling Author (2010)
Fictionwise eBook Author of the Year (1st, 2006) - Agent
- Merrilee Heifetz (Writers House)
- Relationships
- Green, Jonathon (husband)
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Heber Springs, Arkansas, USA
- Places of residence
- Heber Springs, Arkansas, USA
Sims, Indiana, USA
St. Louis County, Missouri, USA - Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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A Lick of Frost in Laurell K. Hamilton Fans (December 2007)
Merry Gentry #6 coming out in October! in Laurell K. Hamilton Fans (July 2007)
Reviews
Anita's day is disrupted by the arrival of a box at her office with a human head in it. It seems Vittorio the serial killer vampire she tangled with in the past has set up shop in Las Vegas and called her out personally. He sent the head of Las Vegas' vampire executioner to her as an invitation to play. Duty calls, so Anita is off to Vegas to meet up with Edward, Olaf, & Bernardo for a good old fashion vamp hunt. Hopefully she'll also be able to smooth things over with the local weretiger show more group whose leader is the wife of Max, the local Master of the City.
Lately, Marmie Noir has been messing with Anita which has caused her to be the lucky carrier of some of the rarest forms of weretiger on the planet. Hopefully she'll be able to make nice with the kitties and survive her encounter with Vittorio's obsession.
This book is very boring. That's its most notable feature after the repetitiveness. Get ready to hear Anita describe the physical appearance of each man who is introduced down to the clothes he is wearing and her opinions on same. Get ready to hear her and her interchangeable associates talk in tedious expository circles, recounting numerous events that the reader is already familiar with. Don't worry, exactly none of your favorite characters will make an appearance in this book and Anita will pick up two new men to take home with her.
The most annoying aspect of this book is the way every man is constantly complaining about how he's not Anita's favorite or they are mad that they haven't gotten to have sex with her yet. When they do get to have sex with her, be prepared to hear them complain about how she isn't enthusiastic enough. It truly beggars belief how every man is obsessed with her and completely without shame when it comes to whining like an aggrieved boyfriend about the nature of their relationship.
Anita says like 100 times that she has too many men in her life. I don't even care if it's true, I just don't want to hear her have the same tedious conversation again. Everything is a ploy to take up more space on the page. This book is excruciatingly padded out. It also features the exact same scene where Anita is taken over by a vampire and forced to sleep with a parade of men in order to somehow (?) metaphysically generate power. In the last book, this was an emotional plot point where Anita is traumatized by being raped. In this book, she barely registers it as a problem. More of like an inconvenience. The way sexual assault is treated in this book is deeply irresponsible and unrealistic.
Another thing which is not aging well is Anita's brand of self-hating feminism. Anita is #NotLikeTheOtherGirls. She's just different. She's tough and strong and blunt. No other woman has ever possessed these qualities and that's why all other women are trash. The number of times in this book that Anita either apologizes for "acting like a girl" or denigrates other women or is told sternly by her male colleagues to quit "being a girl" is staggering and provokes a cringe every time. One such instance is when Anita asks her coworker if it was hard for him to look at the dead body of someone he knew personally. She is then accused of being a girl and told that "only a woman" would asks such a question. ??????? Also, Anita is constantly expounding on her various observations about the nature of gender. Her concept of gender roles are extremely rigid and ludicrous.
There are also just a bunch of stupid plot holes that don't make sense. I can only assume that her editors were so worn out from reading repetitive content and dialogue that they just gave up. I know I was ready to throw in the towel by the end. My favorite glaring plot hole was when Vittorio takes over Anita's body and has her have sex with a half dozen men in her hotel room. Her entire team of body guards just allow this to happen. Also, Vittorio somehow kidnaps a vampire out of the coffin in Anita's hotel room and walks him out in a duffle bag and again, her body guards were, I guess, all on break?
It's all just very very bad. Unforgivably bad really. Jean Claude only makes an appearance on a phone call where he plays the role of the voice of the reader. He complains that Anita has too many men in her life which makes it hard to have any sort of meaningful relationship with any of them. I agree with him! The constant influx of new characters is out of control and not interesting. I want to spend more time with the characters we already know and love. But alas, it is not to be. show less
Lately, Marmie Noir has been messing with Anita which has caused her to be the lucky carrier of some of the rarest forms of weretiger on the planet. Hopefully she'll be able to make nice with the kitties and survive her encounter with Vittorio's obsession.
This book is very boring. That's its most notable feature after the repetitiveness. Get ready to hear Anita describe the physical appearance of each man who is introduced down to the clothes he is wearing and her opinions on same. Get ready to hear her and her interchangeable associates talk in tedious expository circles, recounting numerous events that the reader is already familiar with. Don't worry, exactly none of your favorite characters will make an appearance in this book and Anita will pick up two new men to take home with her.
The most annoying aspect of this book is the way every man is constantly complaining about how he's not Anita's favorite or they are mad that they haven't gotten to have sex with her yet. When they do get to have sex with her, be prepared to hear them complain about how she isn't enthusiastic enough. It truly beggars belief how every man is obsessed with her and completely without shame when it comes to whining like an aggrieved boyfriend about the nature of their relationship.
Anita says like 100 times that she has too many men in her life. I don't even care if it's true, I just don't want to hear her have the same tedious conversation again. Everything is a ploy to take up more space on the page. This book is excruciatingly padded out. It also features the exact same scene where Anita is taken over by a vampire and forced to sleep with a parade of men in order to somehow (?) metaphysically generate power. In the last book, this was an emotional plot point where Anita is traumatized by being raped. In this book, she barely registers it as a problem. More of like an inconvenience. The way sexual assault is treated in this book is deeply irresponsible and unrealistic.
Another thing which is not aging well is Anita's brand of self-hating feminism. Anita is #NotLikeTheOtherGirls. She's just different. She's tough and strong and blunt. No other woman has ever possessed these qualities and that's why all other women are trash. The number of times in this book that Anita either apologizes for "acting like a girl" or denigrates other women or is told sternly by her male colleagues to quit "being a girl" is staggering and provokes a cringe every time. One such instance is when Anita asks her coworker if it was hard for him to look at the dead body of someone he knew personally. She is then accused of being a girl and told that "only a woman" would asks such a question. ??????? Also, Anita is constantly expounding on her various observations about the nature of gender. Her concept of gender roles are extremely rigid and ludicrous.
There are also just a bunch of stupid plot holes that don't make sense. I can only assume that her editors were so worn out from reading repetitive content and dialogue that they just gave up. I know I was ready to throw in the towel by the end. My favorite glaring plot hole was when Vittorio takes over Anita's body and has her have sex with a half dozen men in her hotel room. Her entire team of body guards just allow this to happen. Also, Vittorio somehow kidnaps a vampire out of the coffin in Anita's hotel room and walks him out in a duffle bag and again, her body guards were, I guess, all on break?
It's all just very very bad. Unforgivably bad really. Jean Claude only makes an appearance on a phone call where he plays the role of the voice of the reader. He complains that Anita has too many men in her life which makes it hard to have any sort of meaningful relationship with any of them. I agree with him! The constant influx of new characters is out of control and not interesting. I want to spend more time with the characters we already know and love. But alas, it is not to be. show less
I was perhaps two-thirds of the way through this, the latest and perhaps final episode of Merry Gentry’s Magical Sex Adventures, when I realised that no plot was forthcoming. Whilst previous installments have at least tried to chuck in some murders and political wrangles, here this isn’t even attempted. The main problem is that Merry’s mad rapist uncle is invading people’s dreams, but although this is discussed it doesn’t lend much of any structure to the narrative. After all, show more Taranis has been menacing Merry’s clan ever since the series began. Aunt Andais is also a potential threat, although she seems positively mellow in light of her previous behaviour. She doesn’t torture anyone throughout the novel! A new record.
Actually, 'A Shiver of Light' (as randomly named as all of the series) presents an interesting departure. There are more scenes of crying than of sex, much discussion of therapy & trauma, and throughout the book Merry is recovering from giving birth to triplets, so cannot have penetrative intercourse. This change made me notice an important element of the series that I hadn’t previously grasped. As well as the more superficial sexual elements of fantasy that the Merry Gentry books offer the female reader, there is Merry’s comparative freedom from emotional labour. Although it is evident from asides that Merry’s harem compete between themselves for her favours and often resent one another, she doesn’t have to deal with any of that crap. It’s heavily implied that Doyle sorts it all out, preventing her from dealing with jealous tiffs. Now that is an outlandish fantasy - a woman being in a romantic relationship with men who do the emotional labour for her! The harem also care for her triplets without her having to arrange it; she states at one point that she doesn’t know who is looking after the babies, just trusts that they have it handled. Imagine that.
Let’s be clear, though, this novel is still incredibly ridiculous. I collected lines of especial note, which I will now list.
Now let’s check the accuracy of my predictions after reading Divine Misdemeanors, which means spoilers.
1. Magical puppies! NOPE. I was sure these would appear, but unfortunately not. The magical dogs adopted Merry’s new babies, though.
2. Andais returns, angrier than ever! Sort of. She does return, however her emotions seem to have expanded beyond anger. Like nearly every other main character, she cries several times.
3. Frost and Doyle kiss! YES! Called it! The kiss is brief, but the two guys profess to be in love with one another, gaze adoringly at each other’s faces, etc. None of this no homo nonsense here.
4. Barinthus gets a job as a lifeguard! Since Barinthus makes no appearances in this book, I’m going to assume that he took Merry’s ‘get a job’ order to heart and did just that. There is no textual evidence to refute me.
5. Merry becomes too pregnant for high heels! Yes, as she repeatedly complains. Yet we also learn that Merry does not consider three inch heels to be high. Merry, as a fellow five foot tall woman, I advise you to give it up. High heels will only make you slightly less short. Let your feet have a break. (To be fair, she mentions wearing flats at one point.)
6. We learn who in the harem loads the dishwasher! Tragically this remains a mystery. However, since Merry doesn’t know who is looking after her newborn babies, I doubt she has any idea either.
7. And probably some more murders. Only one, the sudden shooting of Sholto, presumably because it was very nearly the end of the book yet virtually no violence had occurred.
Overall I score about 3.5 out of 7. Not bad. To my mind, though, the highlight of the book is the sex scene between Merry, Rhys, and Galen that is initially derailed by a discussion of who would win a fight between Rhys and Doyle, then features the infamous ‘yummy goodness’ line, followed by that incredible No Homo comment from Galen, then some romantic pillow talk about the time Rhys committed genocide. Also of note, the sidhe are apparently to blame for today’s problems of unrealistic body images for women in the media. Apparently, ‘The sidhe were built differently, like fashion models with a bit more body fat so they still had breasts and ass, but they could eat a Thanksgiving feast every day and not gain weight. Humans couldn’t, and yet they tried.’ Wow, thank you fairyland. Perhaps the most pointless subplot (if you can call it that) concerns an offer to make a reality TV show about Merry and her harem, which she decides not to do, although not for the obvious reason that it could only be shown on HBO.
I’m going to miss mocking this absurd fairy sex nonsense. I wonder if Laurell K. Hamilton plans to write any more in the series? Surely at some point Merry will explain to her kids how many fathers they have, however that works. Still, if this is the end, at least Doyle, Frost, and Merry seem happy together, looking like tinsel, an oil slick, and garnets when they embrace. show less
Actually, 'A Shiver of Light' (as randomly named as all of the series) presents an interesting departure. There are more scenes of crying than of sex, much discussion of therapy & trauma, and throughout the book Merry is recovering from giving birth to triplets, so cannot have penetrative intercourse. This change made me notice an important element of the series that I hadn’t previously grasped. As well as the more superficial sexual elements of fantasy that the Merry Gentry books offer the female reader, there is Merry’s comparative freedom from emotional labour. Although it is evident from asides that Merry’s harem compete between themselves for her favours and often resent one another, she doesn’t have to deal with any of that crap. It’s heavily implied that Doyle sorts it all out, preventing her from dealing with jealous tiffs. Now that is an outlandish fantasy - a woman being in a romantic relationship with men who do the emotional labour for her! The harem also care for her triplets without her having to arrange it; she states at one point that she doesn’t know who is looking after the babies, just trusts that they have it handled. Imagine that.
Let’s be clear, though, this novel is still incredibly ridiculous. I collected lines of especial note, which I will now list.
“You look good, Rhys,” Galen said as he went to take his place beside the chair, “but I can’t tell if you’re doing Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon or a sexy ice-cream man.”
‘He leaned over and kissed me with lips that were the soft pink of the sunrise.’ [Really?]
‘Yummy goodness’ [used to describe an erection - REALLY?]
“Dude, I love you like a brother. A brother that I get naked with and fuck the same woman silly with, but like a brother, totally” [Why not just get NO HOMO tattooed on your abs, Galen?]
“Is no-one safe from your lusts, Meredith?” [Amazing Victorian Maiden Aunt hypocrisy from Andais.]
‘I stared down at more mounding creamy goodness than I’d ever thought possible on my own body.’ [Merry appears to be confusing her breasts with pattisserie.]
‘...like petting a dolphin, except not wet.’ [Merry’s unsettling description of fondling Sholto’s tentacles.]
Now let’s check the accuracy of my predictions after reading Divine Misdemeanors, which means spoilers.
1. Magical puppies! NOPE. I was sure these would appear, but unfortunately not. The magical dogs adopted Merry’s new babies, though.
2. Andais returns, angrier than ever! Sort of. She does return, however her emotions seem to have expanded beyond anger. Like nearly every other main character, she cries several times.
3. Frost and Doyle kiss! YES! Called it! The kiss is brief, but the two guys profess to be in love with one another, gaze adoringly at each other’s faces, etc. None of this no homo nonsense here.
4. Barinthus gets a job as a lifeguard! Since Barinthus makes no appearances in this book, I’m going to assume that he took Merry’s ‘get a job’ order to heart and did just that. There is no textual evidence to refute me.
5. Merry becomes too pregnant for high heels! Yes, as she repeatedly complains. Yet we also learn that Merry does not consider three inch heels to be high. Merry, as a fellow five foot tall woman, I advise you to give it up. High heels will only make you slightly less short. Let your feet have a break. (To be fair, she mentions wearing flats at one point.)
6. We learn who in the harem loads the dishwasher! Tragically this remains a mystery. However, since Merry doesn’t know who is looking after her newborn babies, I doubt she has any idea either.
7. And probably some more murders. Only one, the sudden shooting of Sholto, presumably because it was very nearly the end of the book yet virtually no violence had occurred.
Overall I score about 3.5 out of 7. Not bad. To my mind, though, the highlight of the book is the sex scene between Merry, Rhys, and Galen that is initially derailed by a discussion of who would win a fight between Rhys and Doyle, then features the infamous ‘yummy goodness’ line, followed by that incredible No Homo comment from Galen, then some romantic pillow talk about the time Rhys committed genocide. Also of note, the sidhe are apparently to blame for today’s problems of unrealistic body images for women in the media. Apparently, ‘The sidhe were built differently, like fashion models with a bit more body fat so they still had breasts and ass, but they could eat a Thanksgiving feast every day and not gain weight. Humans couldn’t, and yet they tried.’ Wow, thank you fairyland. Perhaps the most pointless subplot (if you can call it that) concerns an offer to make a reality TV show about Merry and her harem, which she decides not to do, although not for the obvious reason that it could only be shown on HBO.
I’m going to miss mocking this absurd fairy sex nonsense. I wonder if Laurell K. Hamilton plans to write any more in the series? Surely at some point Merry will explain to her kids how many fathers they have, however that works. Still, if this is the end, at least Doyle, Frost, and Merry seem happy together, looking like tinsel, an oil slick, and garnets when they embrace. show less
First read: 2005
Re-read: October-November 2015
The plot: Anita is called to help investigate two different cases, the first is murder case with the police and the second is a missing persons case she reluctantly agrees to help with. This book is the first in the series to go into detail about the werewolves and other shapeshifters in Anita's world and we find out more about Richard and the pack structure as well as learning more about the different types of weres that exist.
What I liked:
- The show more emerging love triangle between Anita, Richard and Jean-Claude. When I first read this series, the love triangle was a plot device I hadn't really encountered before and I loved not knowing who Anita would end up with.
- Anita's strong independent streak. This is very well-written, in particular the scene where Anita comes back to her apartment to find Richard there cooking dinner for her. The tension and her struggle with how she thinks she should feel versus how she actually feels is very well done.
- The variety of myths, legends and fairy tales Hamilton draws upon for her supernatural characters is brilliant. I learned so much about different mythical creatures from reading the Anita Blake series the first time around.
- Edward :)
- The characters I love to hate - Raina, Marcus and Gabriel. They are sinister and scary and the sub-plot of the werewolf/human snuff pornography served to show just how sociopathic and inhuman they were.
- The characters of Sheriff Titus and his deputy Aikensen were so good to read about. In every interaction with Anita they never failed to show themselves up with their misogyny and generally unpleasant demeanour. There was always a real undertone of menace surrounding them which meant that as a reader you couldn't just dismiss them as a threat to Anita.
- The reasoning behind the missing shapeshifters they were being kidnapped and held in order to be hunted by human hunters who paid thousands for the privilege of killing a shapeshifter. I thought this was very imaginative and given the world Anita lives in, also very realistic that humans would want to pit themselves against the monsters (in a heavily rigged situation that they were almost certain to win) - it reminds me of the big game hunting in Africa and the recent outrage over the unlawful killing of Cecil the lion.
What I disliked:
- I'm just not a Richard fan. I don't like the way he pushes himself into Anita's life and tries to make her feel guilty about having a dangerous job, I don't like how weak and overly emotional he is. He cant do the tough jobs so he gets Anita to do them for him, then makes her feel bad for being 'the real monster.' Urgh.
Rating: 5/5 stars. show less
Re-read: October-November 2015
The plot: Anita is called to help investigate two different cases, the first is murder case with the police and the second is a missing persons case she reluctantly agrees to help with. This book is the first in the series to go into detail about the werewolves and other shapeshifters in Anita's world and we find out more about Richard and the pack structure as well as learning more about the different types of weres that exist.
What I liked:
- The show more emerging love triangle between Anita, Richard and Jean-Claude. When I first read this series, the love triangle was a plot device I hadn't really encountered before and I loved not knowing who Anita would end up with.
- Anita's strong independent streak. This is very well-written, in particular the scene where Anita comes back to her apartment to find Richard there cooking dinner for her. The tension and her struggle with how she thinks she should feel versus how she actually feels is very well done.
- The variety of myths, legends and fairy tales Hamilton draws upon for her supernatural characters is brilliant. I learned so much about different mythical creatures from reading the Anita Blake series the first time around.
- Edward :)
- The characters I love to hate - Raina, Marcus and Gabriel. They are sinister and scary and the sub-plot of the
- The characters of Sheriff Titus and his deputy Aikensen were so good to read about. In every interaction with Anita they never failed to show themselves up with their misogyny and generally unpleasant demeanour. There was always a real undertone of menace surrounding them which meant that as a reader you couldn't just dismiss them as a threat to Anita.
- The reasoning behind the missing shapeshifters
What I disliked:
- I'm just not a Richard fan. I don't like the way he pushes himself into Anita's life and tries to make her feel guilty about having a dangerous job, I don't like how weak and overly emotional he is. He cant do the tough jobs so he gets Anita to do them for him, then makes her feel bad for being 'the real monster.' Urgh.
Rating: 5/5 stars. show less
Anita Blake is taking a much needed vacation. She's been away from most of her friends in St. Louis for the better part of six months. She's spent the time thinking, meditating, and learning to control her power and the psychic marks she shares with Richard and Jean Claude. Now she's hoping to reconnect with her friends and lovers and reassess matters.
Unfortunately for her, she will not be able to do this at the leisurely pace she originally imagined. Enemies have come to town and her show more absence from the men in her life have allowed the wolf pack to weaken and Jean Claude's powers to wane. Now she's playing catch up while trying to deal with a whole new battery of supernatural problems. It seems that reconnecting the marks with her two boyfriends has led to her unexpectedly taking on the powers of a succubus from Jean Claude. To further complicate matters, a brief but bloody tussle with some murderous lycanthropes has left her possibly infected with lycanthropy and likely to become a leopard at the next full moon.
Richard is not pleased and quickly dumps her and moves to depose her as lupa. Oh. And there's someone new in town. He's also a wereleopard and his beast and Anita's have apparently mated almost at first sight. The awakening of the ardeur causes them to fuck almost immediately. Both Jean Claude and Richard are different levels of skeptical but they'll all have to put their suspicions aside if they are going to survive the latest serial killer who is targeting were alphas.
This is the book that jumps the dildo-finned sex shark. This book is absolutely manic. Every page is either sex scenes or gun fights and sometimes both at once. That being said, it's at least not as tedious as some of the later books. I'd rather have Anita running bizarrely from one life threatening situation to the next instead of getting bogged down in extended dialogue scenes or whatever else.
Despite that fact that you can almost feel the plot accelerate downhill, I still enjoyed this book. It's silly fun and has some of my favorite characters returning which was a relief after the last book. I am also liking Micah more than I remembered, although I still resent LKH for never giving Jean Claude enough time. He really is Anita's soul mate but he's always taking the back seat and bearing the brunt of Anita's wrath over her own insecurities. show less
Unfortunately for her, she will not be able to do this at the leisurely pace she originally imagined. Enemies have come to town and her show more absence from the men in her life have allowed the wolf pack to weaken and Jean Claude's powers to wane. Now she's playing catch up while trying to deal with a whole new battery of supernatural problems. It seems that reconnecting the marks with her two boyfriends has led to her unexpectedly taking on the powers of a succubus from Jean Claude. To further complicate matters, a brief but bloody tussle with some murderous lycanthropes has left her possibly infected with lycanthropy and likely to become a leopard at the next full moon.
Richard is not pleased and quickly dumps her and moves to depose her as lupa. Oh. And there's someone new in town. He's also a wereleopard and his beast and Anita's have apparently mated almost at first sight. The awakening of the ardeur causes them to fuck almost immediately. Both Jean Claude and Richard are different levels of skeptical but they'll all have to put their suspicions aside if they are going to survive the latest serial killer who is targeting were alphas.
This is the book that jumps the dildo-finned sex shark. This book is absolutely manic. Every page is either sex scenes or gun fights and sometimes both at once. That being said, it's at least not as tedious as some of the later books. I'd rather have Anita running bizarrely from one life threatening situation to the next instead of getting bogged down in extended dialogue scenes or whatever else.
Despite that fact that you can almost feel the plot accelerate downhill, I still enjoyed this book. It's silly fun and has some of my favorite characters returning which was a relief after the last book. I am also liking Micah more than I remembered, although I still resent LKH for never giving Jean Claude enough time. He really is Anita's soul mate but he's always taking the back seat and bearing the brunt of Anita's wrath over her own insecurities. show less
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