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"Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter"

Books #1 – 14 Laurell K Hamilton, author Penguin Group Publishing, (USA)

Greetings,

"I don't date vampires. I kill them"

Guilty Pleasures was the first Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel by author Laurell K Hamilton. The novel is set in a world that is just like ours only in this world magic, lycanthropes, vampires, ghouls and zombies (as well as various other supernatural creatures) are real. In this world, the Supreme Court has just granted vampires equal rights, and most people think that vampires are just ordinary people with fangs. Animator Anita Blake knows differently or at least she thinks she does. The vampires call her the executioner, she is just your ordinary run of the mill girl who raises the dead for a living and slays vampires on the side.

The new laws are raising questions about the legalities and ethics of vampire slaying and vampire relations. Questions like, was it murder to kill a vampire? Were you widowed if your spouse became a vampire? Did the heirs of a vampire have to give back their inheritances? A church had been set up by some members of the vampire community to recruit new members, in a world that is quickly losing faith in conventional religions can you imagine a church that guaranteed eternal life? No waiting, no fuss, a quick kiss on the neck and you will live forever in youth and beauty. To Anita this could be the scariest thing about the new laws.

Anita Blake works at Animators, Inc. A nice quiet office job (yeah right) where for a price the specialized animators can and will raise your dearly departed to help settle will disputes or if you simply wanted to see your loved one again for a short time to tell them how you really felt about them.

Aside from her job, raising zombies at Animators Inc., Anita is also on retainer as a consultant with the new task force designed to deal with preternatural crime, the Regional Preternatural Investigation Team or R.P.I.T (pronounced Rip It) also known as the Spook Squad, and has been called in as the vampire expert in relation to a string vampire murders.

After being lured to Guilty Pleasures a vampire strip club owned by a master vampire called Jean-Claude, Anita is taken to see the master of the city, a thousand year old child like vampire Nikolaos, and is "persuaded" to investigate the vampire murders herself.

As if finding a monster that can kill a vampire with it's bare hands wasn't enough. Anita comes face to face with Valentine, a vampire who she thought she had already executed. It seems Valentine has not forgotten Anita and plans to get retribution. She becomes supernaturally linked to Jean-Claude, and is being threatened by Edward a friend and fellow vampire slayer who wants to know the day-time retreat of Nikolaos and is willing to torture for the information if he needs to. Anita spends a lot of time trying to protect herself, a fellow animator named Zachary and a vampire-junky named Phillip out of harms way while she tries to figure out who is behind the vampire murders and the attempts on her life.

With extremely well developed characters, who are three dimensional and lovable. Anita Blake is an amazing heroine who is on the surface, hard and sure of herself with a somewhat bizarre sense of humour. However when you scratch the surface you find a woman who is insecure in her own humanity, and is questioning everything she thought she believed in she is finding it harder and harder to tell who the monsters are and starting to wonder if maybe she isn't one herself. There is a depth to Anita Blake that I find rare in a novel of this genre I also find it rare for there to be any real growth in it's characters but their is noticeable growth in Anita Blake and it is clear that she will continue to grow and develop as time goes on.

Amanda Johnstone

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