“There was a look on Jean Claude’s face that was hard to describe. The devil must look like that after you’ve signed on the dotted line and given away your soul. Pleased, eager, and a little hungry.” 4th Listen: “Can I still be the scourge of vampire kind when I’m sleeping with the head bloodsucker? You bet.”3rd Listen: “My life was a cross between a preternatural soap opera and an action adventure movie. Sort of As the Casket Turns meets Rambo.” 2nd Listen: Still such a good time.Turning point...

Anita Blake has a hit out on her in this book, The Killing Dance (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #6), and the person who put the contract on her is offering half a million dollars. Hell, I'd do it for a candy bar and a bottle of wine. It could even be a box of wine. Really, she's pretty unlikable.She finds out about this through Edward, one of my favorite characters, a professional hitman. He was offered the contract first, but didn't take it. As a matter of fact, he even decides to protect her fr...

I haaaate Anita Blake.She is rude. She is arrogant. She is pushy, bitchy, violent, frequently obstinate, has incredibly poor impulse control, and she doesn't strike me as particularly smart. Unfortunately, I think Laurell K. Hamilton thinks Anita is smart, and so I end up reading passages that are meant to show Anita getting some sort of insight, when no. There's nothing there. Sometimes, literally, the author will insert the idea that Anita's picked up on some nuance that is not there. That's n...

Here's my public service announcement for the day:If you read past "The Killing Dance (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #6)" in the 'Anita Blake' series, you have only yourself to blame.I've been trying to pinpoint where this series took a nosedive. Somewhere along the way, it morphed from 'Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter' to 'Anita Blake: Supernatural Porn Star.' It was either this book or the next one, "Burnt Offerings," where things went completely off the rails.Don't get me wrong. I enjoy sex, and I...

This is probably my favorite book in the entire series. It cuts out all the BS and gets right to the heart of what everyone wants to see. There's so much focus on Anita, Jean-Claude, and Richard, and by book six, it was definitely needed. Of course, she's also got a half-million dollar bounty on her head that she needs to deal with while trying not to get killed. Richard's dealing with his own pack issues; he isn't seeing eye to eye with his co-alpha, Marcus. That all climaxes in an unbelievable...

Okay, they seriously need to add a zero to the rating options so I can properly warn people to skip this one. I'm sorry to say it, but after the fifth book in the Anita Blake series, Laurell K. Hamilton just completely abandons being an AUTHOR and dives headfirst into erotica. If you cut all the smut from the later books, you might be able to cobble together a single novel from the scraps. Otherwise, they're just short (very short) stories drowning in sex – sex scenes, people talking about sex, ...

***3.5 "Just Have Sex Already" Stars***Anita "the prude" Blake is back! She's dating her werewolf boyfriend, Richard, and Jean Claude, the Master Vampire of the city. Unfortunately, she's still such a prude that she hasn't gotten down and dirty with either of them.Thank goodness that changes in *The Killing Dance* because I was about ready to smack her upside the head with a massive vibrator and yell, "Just bang somebody already!"The sexual tension has been beyond ridiculous, and neither Richard...

Before reading about Richard, I thought werewolves were pretty solid guys. But with this wretched, useless man, they've turned into overly cute lovebirds.Ultimately, I've always been a vampire fan anyway. Long live VAMPIRES! My enemy is you, cute werewolves!*The Killing Dance* is the best Anita Blake book I've read to date, and it's one of those books that won't lose its value in my eyes even if I finish the series. It's the best, the most special for me.That's why I'm terrified of reading the s...

Another fantastic addition to the Anita Blake series, and honestly, "The Killing Dance" might just be one of my absolute favorites so far. We finally get some closure on the power struggle between Jean-Claude and Richard. Vampire or Werewolf? Who will Anita ultimately choose? Can one woman really juggle relationships with two men and still stay true to herself? I found "The Killing Dance" by Laurell K. Hamilton to be one of the steamiest books in the series, and it's not just because of the expl...

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEADOkay, so these books are marketed like steamy romance vampire lover novels, right? Well, *The Killing Dance* is the seventh book in this series that I have read, but the first where she sleeps with Jean-Claude, the vamp. I'm a little miffed 'cause if she was gonna sleep with either of them, I was hoping for Richard, the wolf. Or, at least hoping she would sleep with him before giving it up to Jean-Claude.Now, here's the thing: in books 1-4, Anita is painted as taking the h...