Vampire Vocab

Yes, I am back to doing book reviews. As for Laurell K. Hamilton…I am on the 18th, and last book of the Anita Blake series: Skin Trade. Let me just tell you that these books have held more gruesomely eviscerated bodies than probably all the rest of the books I’ve read in my life combined. And yet, they’re strangely addictive.

The first book, Guilty Pleasures, (Yes, the name sucks. Yes, it sounds like a romance novel. It’s not. Really. Not so much as a kiss for about five books. Can you say the same for, say, Twilight?) is really fascinating: sounds like your general plotline: evil vampire comes to town, brave (zombie-raising) heroine and nice (strip club-owning) vampire along with a (assassin) friend get together to kill vampire, vampire dies, and the audience is told some fascinating tidbit that makes them want to buy the sequel (The Laughing Corpse, in this case). But really, for some reason, this book really makes you want to buy, not just one sequel, but heck, all SEVENTEEN of them. Of course, you’ll only like them if you’re more fascinated than disgusted. Warning: graphic imagery of corpses!! DO NOT say I didn’t warn you!

But otherwise, they’re very enjoyable books.

The characters are multi-layered, well-developed, and no two are similar. Trust me, you’ll find no “generic friends of the uber-cool vampire slayer”. Good guys and bad guys aren’t clear-cut, black and white. Everyone’s a shade of gray. Love it!

I would rate this book a 9.5 of 10.

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