Bloody Bones- A oddball in the Anita Blake series

Bloody Bones- A oddball in the Anita Blake series

Okay if you don’t know what the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series is, then your one of these three. 1) You have been living under a rock. 2) Completely naive about it because you’re a new reader to new age realm. Of 3) Your one of those guys who never read. I hope I didn’t offend anyone here, I am a fan of Anita Blake and this is the review of the Laurell K. Hamilton’s Bloody Bones.

The Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books are a basically a never ending book series about Anita who is a necromancer. She raises zombies for cash and for question and helping the police. In this one Anita faces a murder linked to a series of murders outside the state lines. Where there she’s also hired to raised a graveyard of zombies of corpses over 200 years old. Something that she may not even have the power to do.

The murders in this one very much like the others are strait forward. The book plays out like a hard boiled crime drama featuring vampires, werewolves and witches.

Anita Blake in h the previous four books is tough. But sense somewhat softened having a werewolf Richard recently and avoiding Jean Claude (who has a crush on her) as much as possible. Her tough as nails lead is really muddled in this book

Anita Blake is having a bit of a emotional crises. She realizes that she actually does care about the vampire Jean Clause. She resents the fact that she has the ability to raise the dead. There are multiple issues that come up in the story that questions whether some one is human or a monster. Great drama in this one, even if it is a bit over done.

Then there is Larry in the book to provide comic relief so it won’t get too serious. Yet still for a while it ultimately does.

There is a whole torture scene in the middle of the book that goes on forever. And though it may be entertaining at first, it gets boring , not to mention a bit disturbing. Sadly the scene seems pointless beyond the fact that a crazy master vampire wishes it.

The title Bloody Bones refers to a bar to the cannibalistic fairy that is trapped by it’s fairy relatives. And yes, I did just say fairy.

And I think that took me out of the book more than the torture scene. There was a whole back story of councils and government of fairies that seemed to just not coincide with the world that has already been created for these books. It was hard to get used to. It was like pulling Edward out of Twilight and throwing him into the Chronicles of Narnia. It doesn’t belong. It just doesn’t work.

So it wasn’t bad, but just kind of weird. I read through with a since of , is this really part of the series? It is a oddball. Most of the books are good until that “ardurr” thing shows up in the late novels and then they just become garbage. But it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t fantastic either, but if your interested , it’s worth the read. If you’re a fan. It’s sure worth the read.

3 smoothies out of 4

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