Obsidian Butterfly (Obsidian Butterfly - Laurell K. Hamilton)

Member Name: kent-ledger

Product:	Obsidian Butterfly - Laurell K. Hamilton
Date:	26/10/05 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: High impact and fast paced

Disadvantages: end of an era

He specialized in monsters. Vampires, shape-shifters, anything and everything. There were people like me who did it legal, but Edward didn't sweat the legalities or, hell, the ethics. He was an equal opportunity killer. I may be one of the few friends that Edward has, but it's like being friends with a tame leopard. It may curl on the foot of your bed and let you pet it's head, but it can still eat your throat out....

Obsidian butterfly is Antia Blake (Vampire Hunter,Raiser of the dead and Private Investigator To name just A few of Her talents) Ninth outing in the supernatural world in which she lives.

This particular story revolves around Edward, Anitas friend and tough as nails "Gun For hire" Who calls in a favour of Anita. This is unusual In its self and should warn Anita that nothing is as it seems. However Edward has saved her life more times than she has raised the dead, and lets face it nothing in her line of work is ever what it seems. So she finds her self among the were leopards of Santa Fe, trying to solve grusome murders where the bodies have been flayed then kept alive by magic, battaling with Mayan priests and ultimatley an evil so ancient Maybe even the great Anita Blake faces a foe she cannot over come.

The particular novel marked for me the end of the Mickey Spilane style of writing Laurel Hamilton used when we were first introduced to Anita Blake and to a more sexual undercurrent which I feel seems to dominate most of her later works. In a way it is as if the intro duction of the wereleopards and there overt sexuality signals the writting change. Not that I have a problem with the sexuality it is just that I like a bit of story too.

The obsidain Buterfly is Classic Anita Blake before it all goes a bit "were shaped" lots of tension, strangeness, bluntness and kickass girl power. Just perfect for a bit of light night reading

Summary: lots of tension, strangeness, bluntness and kickass girl power.