As I mentioned about a month ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my review of the book post!
Description from Good Reads: Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy…
Guilty Pleasures (Chapters 1-23)
I wish that I could forget everything about Anita Blake and get introduced to her all over again. It’s so much fun to meet a new character. Alas, my poor memory is not that poor, so I do remember some basic details. For the sake of my readers who are new to Anita, I will do my best not to include any notes that come from later books.
Meeting Anita and learning about her in this book is so much fun. Guilty Pleasures is already compelling and action-packed. I want to finish reading the book so I can find out how Anita manages to scrape her way out of the jam she’s in after 23 chapters. One of the fun parts about the series (for me) is that it seems unlikely Anita will die any time soon (though I have seen a novel where a first-person narrator did die in the book!), but there are so many other people at risk. What I love about Anita so far is that she is very loyal to her friends. That comes up a lot in this first half of the book. No amount of money will convince her to do this job she doesn’t want to do, but when her friend is threatened, she will not back down until she makes sure that her friend is safe.
Here is the link to my very rough notes about the first half of the book, including notes on characters and plot. It’s mostly for me, but if you had read it in the past and just need a refresher, it would suffice, though it doesn’t read nicely!
J R Vincente 