Money talks, so off she goes, but it is never just an easy thing. She is going to raise some dead for a land dispute.

Anita’s full time animator job calls her out of town. It didn’t take a degree in preternatural studies to figure out that something was very wrong in and around Branson, Missouri. And then they found the dead girl, drained of blood and left in her bed. Then there were the three dead teenagers in the woods, slaughtered in a way I had never seen before. I’d been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER THE DEAD MULTIPLY.”įirst, there were the dead in the graveyard, two-hundred years dead. “WHEN THE MONSTERS ARE INVOLVED, IT”S NEVER JUST ONE DEAD BODY. Overall, fun book to read, gets you on the edge of your chair, we get to see more of Anita’s powers which is nice, we get to see a sensitive JC, which is nice, and Richard isn’t there to play jealous alfa-werewolf, which is even better.Melissa‘s Guest review of Bloody Bones, book five in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. And the lesson we learnt today children, is that not all monsters are that bad”. We spend 300 pages fighting the baddies and she closes off with, “Ah well, everyone’s hurt but okay. It doesn’t add to the story, and overall feels a little anti-climactic. I just wish Hamilton would leave that final chapter. There are also a lot of repetitive sentences that once you notice them, start to get on your nerves. Okay, I admit, Larry in leather pants was kind of funny. If she would have said nothing about his clothes, he would have been so much sexier in my imagination. Hamilton is actually ruining some scenes for me because, I’m just not into white suits with lace and blouses with long sleeves that cover hands and jackets that hit mid waist.

I don’t need a total description of someone’s wardrobe. The clothes thing is starting to bother me. Jean-Claude for once isn’t the arrogant bastard, and he’s actually… kind of cute. It’s good to see that he still has compassion and isn’t as pitiless as Anita, but he is getting close.

We see Larry grow from shy animator to a relentless vampire killer. Anita is still the ass-kicking heroine we are used to, but finally, she’s learning an important lesson: not every vampire belongs to the monsters. It is fast paced, as we are familiar with from the other books, but this one sees a lot of growth in some characters. Of course, nothing is what it seems and throw in some master vampires and fey magic and a boggle, and you get Anita in a whole lot of trouble. When she arrives, the police wants her opinion as monster expert on a slaying of a couple of teenagers. In the 5th instalment of the Anita Blake series, Anita is summoned to resurrect a whole hill of scrambled zombie mess. Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #5) by Laurell K.

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