Earn Polvere Alla Polvere Authored By Laurell K. Hamilton Formatted As Paperback

have enjoyed this entire series so far and this one was no exception, I like that the characters are in constant motion, They seem to be moving forward, even if at times it feels like they are moving slowly, But it seems that by the end of the book, they have all learned something new and have adapted, Usually in series, that is hard to keep up, but this author has figured that part out,

These have been a fun escape for me, I have a couple more that I hope to get to soon, Bloody Bones is one of the more brutal outings in this series, A huge portion of the book follows Anita Blake as shes working and this time shes called in on a case that is particularly gruesome.
Three teen boys are brutally slain, a young teen girl is left for dead and a young boy has been kidnapped, possibly by a deviant sexual predator of a vampire who enjoys toying with children.
Its dark and painful to read the grief instilled within some of these pages,

Anita must also raise an entire graveyard of the dead for a client with only Larry the apprentice as backup, Even she realizes this may too much to handle and is struggling with how shes going to do it without a human sacrifice, As if all of this werent enough to handle, she has to deal with a fey being that may or may not be a bad guy.
The only thing she knows for sure is that hes screwing up her latest assignment and is using magic when he shouldnt be,

I really loved this format for the books, Im so POd that it has been screwed with so much in later books, Anyway, as we all know Anita is still dating Richard and Jean Claude, And, surprise, surprise she has to call in Jean Claude for assistance on her vampire case, Once he arrives in his triple poofy armed shirt and spiffy cravat the story takes a little detour from hard boiled vampire executioner and zombie raising mayhem to Anita fending off sexy Jean Claudes flirtations and dealing with vampire politics and protocol and a new master who uses Anitas past to heartbreaking effect.


This book here is Jean Claudes book, all you Richard and Edward fans have been warned, Its pretty easy to see which guy Anita is really digging here, The “monster” line begins to get real fuzzy for Anita and the sexuality is ramped up a notch but Im still okay with that because there is a plot to this book and it moves.
I was always entertained and never bored, irritated or lost, Hamilton excels at keeping all of these plot threads going without confusing her reader all the while giving us tantalizing new tidbits about her main characters.
The only thing missing is the darker edged humor that I enjoyed in the first few books, Bloody Bones was so intense it really would have benefited from some well placed sarcasm and dark humor,
it was a little all over the place near the end, but i still like it so far A perfectly supernatural spooky read for October, theres something easily readable about the Anita Blake series.
With another interesting mystery and a great set of fantastical characters, this series keeps drawing me back in, . .
It also seemed more gorier too!

Whilst asked to raise an entire graveyard to help settle a land dispute, Anita soon finds herself investigating the nearby brutal murders of three teenage boys.


I really like that you know what your getting with this series and the fifth instalment didnt disappoint,
Especially as the relationship between Anita and Jean Claude has an interesting development!

The perfect simple read whilst being tucked up in the warm on those cold autumnal nights.
For all the Anita Blake books I started this series with my then friend, Meredith she actually got me hooked that fateful summer ofwhen I was living on her wooden floor in Brooklyn.
We were both unemployed and bored and got hooked into this series, I loved Anita Blake because it was before I discovered the new genre what I like to call "badass chicks who kick ass!" written in first person and so she was all empowering and of course there were hot vampires and werewolves in it.
Unfortunately, Laurell K Hamilton doesn't have much taste in the way of clothing and mood, . . and sometimes I think she "tells" too much instead of "shows, " I also think that somewhere down the line the editors decided to just give her cart blanche because she most definitely has cut and paste some paragraphs here and there from one book to another.
The other thing I find annoying is that Anita likes to pick fights for no reason and seems to have the little dog syndrome always barking up at the big guns.
And for some reason as the series goes on, the more sexual it gets and also the more ridiculous it gets, She has some interesting elements and some interesting characters and definitely isn't afraid to be violent which I love, But then I got annoyed and moved on to other authors who still work with their editors!!! Needless to say, I stopped reading the series after Incubus Dreams.
My fav of the series is Obsidian Butterfly, It has the least "retelling" and show boating, Not halfbad. So, the name of this book is Bloody Bones, right Well, it is named after a restaurant in the book called Bloody Bones, I have to wonder how many of us would be willing to eat at a place with that name, Seriously, they need to fire the person who came up with that one, cuz yuck,


and mooing, . .

Oh, and I found another fun fact about this book, Anita actually says a word more often than "Nike, " It's "Browning", and apparently it's some kind of gun that she really really likes, The word "Browning" is in the booktimes!! Anita loves her guns as much as other people love their babies, And, just like those new parents, she never shuts up about it,


although, this is a perfectly reasonable response to a spider in my opinion, . .

So, in this book, we get Anita traveling to the big flashy city of Branson to do a large job that involves raising a boatload of dead bodies to ask them their names.
And, while she is there, surprisesurprise, there happens to be a vampire serial killer that she also needs to catch, And, there are fairies beautiful fairies with glittery love powers,


um,,yeah, that's gonna stick with

me for a while,

Anita ends up needing help from Jean Claude and I have to say that I am kind of loving him at this point.
He dresses up Anita's apprentice, Larry, like a stripper, and he gets drunk off of blood and has a giggling fit,

"let's get out of here before fangface busts a gut, "

Jean Claude was doubled over with laughter, He seemed to think "fangface" was outrageously funny,

He also finds Anita's swearing amusing, I like that in a man, My husband actually got shocked when he read one of my reviews that had the fword in it,



It's his fault for encouraging me by laughing anytime I say it!





Cuando un trabajo lleva a Anita a un pueblo a las afueras de San Luis para un trabajo con zombies, lo menos que se espera es tener que atender a un asesino serial, un legado de hadas, un clan vampiro que quiere ser inmortal y un ser milenario que secuestra y mata jovenes.

Pero con la ayuda de su aprendriz Larry, su "novio" vampiro JeanClaude y su mascota lobo Jason, se enfrentaran no solo a lo peor que se haya enfrentado hasta ahora sino que descurbrira nuevos poderes que le haran pensar mas y menos en lo poco humana que es y en su decision de estar o no con Richard.


En este libro el autor nos presnta un nuevo grupo de personajes en las hadas, nos presentan los "Hechizos" y el "Encanto", que tristemente no estan bien explicados y crea varias confusiones a traves de la lectura.
Pero tambien nos lleva a conocer un poco mas de el pasado de Anita y de sus deseos reales, la vida que siempre quiso tener y que esta luchando por tener con Richard.

Sin embargo, cuando el autor comienza con la descripcion de la "politica" de los vampiros y como estan formados los clanes y la "lucha" de poderes, resulta demasiado confuso.
No entendi el porque de la "diversion" antes de ver al "Amo" de ese Clan, tampoco entendi el tema de la muerte del Monstruo o porque el hada estaba atado ese Amo.

Pero bueno, para ser un libro de esta saga es interesante ver como se va desarrollando la prota, como las relaciones de amistad y amor se van haciendo mas fuertes, y sobre todo como poco a poco ella va descubriendo sus poderes.
Most enjoyable. And she seems to be getting closer to JeanClaude, Yippeee Good interesting story. I enjoy the way that so far each book in the series has been about a different supernatural creature, The overall world is getting set up nicely with many interweaving story lines, Nice action and flow of the story, Recommended Anita is such a badass as usual! Sabırla okuyorum , heyecanla Jean Claude bekliyorum, "Bloody Bones" was the first of the out of town books, The key with the out of town books is who comes along for the ride, In this case, JeanClaude, Jason, and Larry came along, Enough of the core people to keep it from feeling like one of the books that could be removed from the series without damaging the flow.
I'd argue that "Obsidian Butterfly" could be removed in that way, Maybe "Micah", as well.

We also got a little bit of Richard before Anita left town, so we got both of our leading men, From "Circus of the Damned" through "Obsidian Butterfly" we clearly had two leading men, After that It's up for debate,

Besides, you can't resist the appeal of "Bloody Bones" for humanizing JeanClaude in Anita's eyes, The vulnerability of JeanClaude sleeping in a hotel room with only curtains as protection from the sun, Anita willingly opening a vein to save his life, Anita learning that JeanClaude was a whipping boy in his youth and seeing the scars on his back, Ending with Somehow JeanClaude had crossed that line that a handful of other vampires had crossed, I don't think of him as a monster anymore,

"Bloody Bones" is also the first book where Anita learns of the vampire council,

Of all the vamps that have tried to "take" Anita by marking her, I think Seraphina was the first to try to change her into a vampire instead.
Granted the only books where Anita held no vampire marks were the previous book, "The Lunatic Cafe", and this one, Necromancers and vampires really are drawn together, huh g

I also loved learning more about Jason in this book, I think I half fell in love with him the moment he came on screen, but he too was at times scary and at times vulnerable here.
Humanizing him the way JeanClaude was humanized, Nothing demonstrated that more than when Anita feared that JeanClaude drained Jason, killing him, First she fears for his safety, then she draws a gun on him, then she protects him from JeanClaude's discipline,

Richard was the opposite, I mean JeanClaude and Jason were both humanized after being seen as other, Richard started out as human and his otherness crept in along the way,

ed . I read a short story in a zombie anthology where Anita raised the dead, and I thought: "Cool!" So I grabbed a couple of these books.
This was okay, but I am so over vampires, especially french vampires, I did rather like the fey and Bloody Bones, But I don't know if I can handle another in the series, If you like vampires though, go for it! Anita Blake has been called out to an animating job in Branson, far away from her usual connections.
But shes the only one in the country who may be able to do it raise an entire graveyard full ofyear old bodies, preferably in one night.


As if that werent a big enough problem, the motivations of the parties involved is far from clear and the presence of fae magic in the graveyard, and faeries willing to guard it, raises many more questions.


And there are vampires running amok as the neighbourhood vampire expert, Anita is called in but the local police are far from welcoming.
The resulting lack of communication is beyond difficult when there seems to beseparate vampire killers,

Negotiating with the local vampires, of course, requires getting further involved with JeanClaude and he never keeps anything simple

Like in previous books, this has several storylines intertwined but also like the previous books, they all come together.
From her original job to raise the graveyard, to the vampire death, to the serial killer all three plot lines are paced really well.
If I had a slight criticism, it would be that her job to raise the zombies was put too far on the backburner, It was her actual reason for being in Branson in the first place and it seemed extremely low in her priority list, I can understand that since she was dealing with serial killer cases, but Id have least expected Sterling or someone to ask where she was and what she was actually doing while they were paying her to complete a time sensitive project.
Still, it was understandable given the circumstances and doesnt bog down the story, I really like how all three storylines come together, how theyre all linked and make up important aspects of the whole and can all be handled in one big finale that doesnt feel contrived.


Having read both the books before and the books after this one, Im left with the feeling that this book is vaguely filler.
Because theyre pulled out of St, Louis were not advancing a lot of the plot or relationships, And the creatures in this book are fae, Now, dont get me wrong, I like fae in a book, theyre some of my favourite supernatural beings, But the fae here appear briefly, with precious little foreshadowing or depth, do some shiny stuff then disappear again, never to be heard of again.
Short of giving Anita an extraspecial shiny vampire to kill, Im not sure what the point of the fae even were and a powerful master vampire could probably have filled Xaviers spot just as well.
Because of that, I dont think this book added anything to the world building while technically introducing whole new creatures, it just doesnt fit the overall theme and shape of the series.


We had some development of her relationship with JeanClaude, but it was mainly her letting him closer to her more than anything.
Still theres closer connections and we also see some more fleshing out of Jason as he grows further into the full character he will become.
But largely thats all it is, we dont get especially new insights into either characters and theyre mainly around more to show that, yeah, theyre around more.


Im still all kinds of uncomfortable with how the relationship between JeanClaude and Anita began, He constantly ignores her “no” and keeps pushing, Then she forces her to date him by threatening Richards life because she has to give him a fair chance to seduce him Why does she and then we continue with the constant boundary pushing regardless

Finally, theres an ongoing issue with how Anita relates to other women.
Other than villains and victims, Anita deals withwomen in this book Dorcas Bouvier and Sergeant Freemont, And in both cases Anita strikes sparks, Its like strong willed, independent women have territories that need to be defended against other women like them, She had a similar worry in Lunatic Café when she saw Deputy Holmes she could be a friend or, equally as much, theyd hate each other and this is before she even spoke.


Both women were also aggressive and hostile for little reason or they overreacted in an aggressive manner with little provocation in a way that made Anita seem almost clam.
Its a strong case of Keillie Independence,

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