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was a little all over the place near the end, but i still like it so far This review publishes on A Weebish Book Blog on .
When Anita Blake is asked to raiseyearold zombies to settle a land dispute in Branson, Missouri, the job becomes a lot more interesting than she originally expected.
A psychotic vampire begins committing murders in the area and Blake must call on her fanged boyfriend for help,
What I enjoyed:
Anita Blake finally stops thinking of JeanClaude as a monster anymore, and finally sees him as not just a powerfully seductive vampire, but as a man.
Seems like a healthy step forward in their relationship but never fear, the drama is not over, With Anita it's always "one step forward, two steps back",
The fae make an appearance! I always love when LKH packs in more supernatural creatures,
The blood and gore
What I disliked:
Anita is still with Richard, Yuck.
Even more relationship drama, . . Yipee.
Though BLOODY BONES wasn't the perfect, it did sport an unusual and fascinating murder mystery to whet a reader's supernatural appetite.
Ms. Anita Blake and I have had a very rocky history in the short time she and I have made acquaintances, For the first few books, I was absolutely enthralled with her takenoprisoners attitude, her bravado, and her insistence upon keeping the monsters in check.
However, with sitelinkThe Lunatic Cafe, she became absolutely frustrating in her passionate distaste for Jean Claude, That is not to say that I was not already getting annoyed with her before then with the way she was treating him when he was clearly in love with her but, something had changed in that book.
She made the infamous choice so many women in supernatural fiction seem to have to make lately: bestiality over necrophilia, And, this time, bestiality won, Richard was suddenly not revered as bestial, though a werewolf, This not only enraged Jean Claude, but myself as well,
I decided to take an undetermined amount of time to break away from Ms, Blake and reassess what I found appealing about her, In the meantime, I switched to dystopian literature, such as sitelinkThe Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset, This was perhaps the best thing I could have done to make my friendship with Anita prosper over her dumb choices, When I finally came back to the Anita Blake books, I had enough time to grieve, as it were, and accept that she and I will never see eyetoeye, as I am male, and she is female.
Our priorities and logic will always differ,
This book, Bloody Bones, has easily become my favorite in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series for a plethora of reasons:
I would recommend anyone who hasn't gotten this far in the series to tough it out and make it to this book.
You won't regret it. I 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,.Stars. This is my favorite book in the Anita Blake series so far, This is the first AB book that I listened to the audio of rather than reading, In Bloody Bones, Anita begins to bend from her very rigid moral code, which is a good thing, We learn about Jean Claude's background before he was a vamp and his beginning as a vamp, Learning about JC's background makes him seem more like a person, and it was sad but I also saw him as a victim.
I still haven't seen a reason in any of the books except maybe Guilty Pleasures as to why he is so strong, We just are not shown this, instead I see a guy who wears silly frilly white shirts and prefers to take bubble baths over a shower.
And was that scene supposed to be sexy Because it wasn't, After a bloody and intesne fight with a warring faction of vamps, everyone breaks away to take a shower, the necromancers, the wereolf but JC announces he wants a bubble bath! Huh
Please, please please I hope Ms.
Hamilton stops using certain phrases such as "bully for her" or "funny thing, that, " These are such odd phrasing that to use them over and over in a book gets very tiresome, I don't mean to sound overly critical, because so far I have really enjoyed the Antia Blake series, The characters are great, I like the gore, the mystery, the fight,
There is some background about Anita and her mother and Anita begins to learn more about her powers and who she is.
Hopefully we continue to learn more about her background and her learning of her own powers, Larry was a good addition to the story, he softens Anita out, tempers her, He makes her reevaluate her hard ass positions, I liked having more of JC around and Anita finally admits she doesn't see him as "undead",
This installment of Anita Blake is definitely gory and scary, I found the narration I listened to the audio to be fabulous it even had sound effects which were actually well done! 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,
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