Lunatic Cafe ~ Laurell Hamilton
This is the fourth book in the Anita Blake series.
Anita has been dating Richard for a couple months now, and they seem to be serious, until a visit from Jean Claude reveals that Richard has been witholding from her details of the inner workings of his Werewolf pack, and fights for dominance. Anita is summonsed to meet the pack leader, Marcus, because Marcus wants her to help solve a series of Lycantrhope disappearances. After a dominance struggle of her own, Anita begins investigating the missing people.
One of Jean Claude’s vampires is determined to get Anita out of Jean Claude’s life, and attacks Anita, to get her to tell Jean Claude that she wants nothing to do with him. When Anita goes to tell him that Richard has proposed, and she has accepted, Jean Claude demands a chance to woo her, and win her love as Richard had done, or he will simply kill Richard.
At the same time Anita is working on a case with the police of a murder done by a shapeshifter, and a skinned immortal, and wishing she could tell them about the missing lycantrhopes.
The Circus of the Damned ~ Laurell Hamilton
This is the third book in the Anita Blake series.
Anita is called out to a vampire killing, and discovers bite marks from 5 different vampires. There is a master vampire in St Louis who has gone rogue, the question is who? Anita agrees to go see Jean Claude, and see what he can tell her about any new vampires in town. At the same time, Anita’s boss, Bert, has hired a new animator to help, because Anita is having to spend so much time working with the police. Anita is late for his first night and barely saves him from losing control of a zombie. Anita quickly takes Larry under her wing, not only to train him as a animator, but also as a vampire hunter.
There is an ancient vampire in town, who believes that vampires should not be legal, and is after Anita to give him the name of the Master of the City so that he can kill him. Anita is reluctant, but at the same time, Edward has again been hired to kill the Master of the City, can she stand up to both of them and does she want to keep Jean Claude safe from them?
This book also has the first appearance of the werewolves, and Richard.
The Laughing Corpse ~ Laurell Hamilton
This is the second book in the Anita Blake series.
Anita has been asked, and has refused, to raise an almost 300 year old zombie, the man who wants her to do it will not take no for an answer. At the same time Anita is working on a series of bloody murders for the police, they believe it is a zombie killing people and are trying to find both, the zombie and the person who raised it and sent it to kill. Also, there has been a recent animator death, and Anita has been asked to help the family determine what exactly happened to him… As if Anita didn’t have enough on her plate, Jean-Claude is after her, he has left word that he wants to meet with her, about her being his human servant, a subject that Anita desperately wants to avoid.
Guilty Pleasures ~ Laurell Hamilton
This is the first book in the Anita Blake series.
We are introduced to Anita in this book, and a world where not only do vampires exist, but they are legal citizens as well. Anita is an animator, she raises zombies from the grave, for a living. She also consults with the Police preternatural squad on such cases as vampire killings, Ghoul attacks and other preternatural crimes, and is a vampire hunter. Anita is also known among the vampire community as The Executioner, because once an order of execution is issued, Anita is the one who carries it out.
In this book, Anita is blackmailed into helping the Master of the City determine who in Saint Louis is killing vampires. In order to save one friend Anita ends up endangering more, and having to kill at least one person just to stay alive.
Can Anita figure out who is behind the crimes before the Master of the City runs out of patience? And can Anita survive a confrontation with the Master?
This is one of my favorite book series. Any time I don’t really want to think about what I am reading, and just want to get lost in the book, I pick up these. I fully admit that I have read the entire series several times since I discovered them… and it will prolly be a few more before I am through.
Knitting Rules! ~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
a quick read, with a fun attitude and enjoyable approach to knitting for new, and not so new knitters. I really enjoyed it. Though… Husband didn’t quite enjoy me finding new ‘reasons’ for buying more yarn…
Odd Hours ~ Dean Koontz
This is the fourth book in the Odd Thomas series.
In this book Odd is in Magic Beach, and has had what seems to be a prophetic dream and now must figure out what must be done to keep the tragedy in his dream from occuring. Along the way he meets a young pregnant girl, Annemarie who seems to be as different as he is from the rest of the population, and is somehow linked to him. As Odd races through the night struggling to survive and still prevent the tragedy, he always has Annemarie on his mind.
I enjoyed this book. It was not, to me, as gripping and enthralling as previous books, but still not a bad story.
Breaking Dawn ~ Stephenie Meyer
This is the fourth book in the Twilight series.
This book starts shortly before Bella’s wedding to Edward, and lasts until aprox six months later. going through the wedding, honeymoon and Bella’s conversion to a vampire, among other major challenges and changes in Bella’s life.
I was not impressed, this book seemed a little rough compared to the previous, as though it were rushed to print instead of revised and polished. Not bad.. but not one of her best efforts.
Phantom in the Night ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
This is the Sixth book in the BAD series.
Terri is a former DEA Agent, now working for BAD, trying to figure out who is framing her, and why. When suddenly she comes across a mystery man, whom seems to be helping her, but she can’t figure out why…
Nathan is a former Spec. Ops Soldier for the army, who went AWOL to take his twin brother’s place in prison. Now that he has been released, his mother is dead and his brother has been murdered, Nathan has nothing left to live for but revenge.
Not at all what I have come to expect from the BAD series. I expected a funny, fast moving thriller, and got bumbling and not so bright… Wish Sherrilyn would lose the sudden co-writer for these!
Acheron ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
This is the latest book in the Dark Hunter series.
This long awaited book tells the tale of Acheron, the Atlantean god, who is in charge of all the Dark Hunters that Artimis has created. It tells of his birth, around 10,000 BC and the story of his childhood as a human prince, and what has shaped the man we have been seeing so far in the series. We also see why he keeps returning to Artimis no matter how much he hates her, and why he can’t free his mother.
I really really enjoyed this book, I was afraid it was going to be very dark, and not much to my taste, but it was very well done, I will have to make this one of my regular re-reads.
Midnight Awakening ~ Lara Adrian
This is the fourth book in the Midnight Breed’s series.
Rio, who was betrayed by his Breedmate in the first novel, and subsequently, severly injured, has spent the last year trying to survive what has happened to him. He decided several months ago to just end it all, and was determined to kill himself while sealing the cavern in which the Ancient had hibernated in. When suddenly a woman shows up in the cave, and takes pictures. Now he must find and destroy the pictures to secure the secret of the Breeds.
Dylan is a reporter, on a European tour with some friends, when she sees the ghost of a woman asking her to save a man. She follows the ghost only to discover a cave, and what appears to be an opened tomb of some kind. Hoping to keep her job after her sudden leave for this trip, she takes pictures and sends them to her editor, in lead to a story. Only now, the transient she saw in the caverns seems to be after her.
Soon Rio catches up with Dylan, and a short time later realizes that she is a Breedmate. Now he must tell her the truth, and give her the choice.
