Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K Hamilton

Zip her up and she's as hidden as she's going to get! Anita Blake raises zombies from their graves for Animators Inc, and is also the legal vampire executioner for the fine state of Missouri. In fact, her kill record has caused the vampire community to refer to her as The Executioner with all the implied capitals. One of her best friends, Edward, is a cold-hearted professional killer known in the same circles as simply Death. Edward may give her the creeps sometimes, but he does let her play with all his best toys. Yeah, Anita may appear delicate, but it's best to remember that appearance are often deceiving! Someone has begun killing vampires in St. Louis ...  Read the complete review

I really wanted to like this book, unfortunately I didn't. I had heard great things about the Anita Blake series so I went out and bought the first couple of books and was incredibly disappointed. There is so much potential in these books. The world she has created is wonderful. She's obviously put a lot of thought into her world building and that really adds something to the books. The heroine is great. She's very well developed, as are many of the supporting characters. The plot is good. It's basically about Anita Blake, a woman who can turn corpses into zombies and works as an animator (someone who raises zombies from the dead). She is also on ...  Read the complete review

I'd like to congratulate myself on reading and completing my first vampire novel. I am very wary of this type of fiction, mainly because blood sucking doesn't really appeal to me. However with a lot of books I read, it all depends on the first two pages. In this case they made me want to read on, hence the reason on why I am determined to hunt down other books by Laurell K Hamilton. The Anita Blake series has 17 books in the collection, first published in 1993 with Guilty Pleasures as the introduction to her life working as an Animator. Guilty Pleasures is a vampire strip club where all of Anita Blakes troubles start off when a supposed friend ...  Read the complete review

Check your crucifix at the door and step into the alternative reality of present-day St Louis, Missouri, USA and meet some nightlife that wants to do more than just bite. 'Willie McCoy had been a jerk before he died. His being dead didn't change that.' The monsters have crawled out of the closet, from under the bed and vampires are legal citizens with rights. 'Welcome to the world's only vampire strip club.' But vampires aren't the only local colour, there is an assortment of ghouls, zombies and Were animals, oh my. '"I've never seen a blond rat before."' Throw into ...  Read the complete review