Anita Blake #23
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Date read: 22 - 27 November 2017
Length: 255 pages
Anita Blake is a vampire hunter, an animator and a U.S. Marshall for the Preternatural Team. She has a lot of lovers. A lot. When one of her werewolf lovers gets a new girlfriend, they turn to Anita for help explaining bondage and rough sex. Who doesn't like a show and tell lesson?
I really like Anita Blake, but I miss when the stories were about supernatural mysteries and big bad evils they had to defeat, and not just all about sex like they are now. Anita has definitely changed a lot over the course of the previous 22 novels, and it shows. She had a lot of morals back in the beginning, and it seems that her morals have changed considerably. She used to be monogamous, would never have been involved with something that she kills. Now she has many, many lovers, and just about all of them are preternatural in some way, from werewolves to vampires.
Jason is a novella, so it is quite short in comparison to some of the others. I haven't read an Anita Blake book in such a long time. I read the first 22 over the course of a couple of years, then stopped because at the time there weren't any more to read! Jason was a good reminder of some of the characters (and let's be honest, there are rather a few) after not reading for a while.
I've heard the next novel, Dead Ice, is better, so I will read that soon. I will keep reading them until she stops writing them, but I can't guarantee I'm going to enjoy them as much as in the earlier novels.
As far as this novella is concerned, it really is basically one sex scene as a book. There's the discussion to begin with, then doing what they've discussed. Anita comes to the realisation that Jade is not the female lover for her, and they all end in a big happy puppy pile. Apart from sex, nothing much else happens.
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The Wee Librocubicularist
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