Just had to read more - Rated 
Thanks to my lovely holidays, I'm getting to spend time in this "preternatural" world and really enjoying it.
Anita Blake is a tough as nails Animator with a license to legally execute rogue vampires: This leads her into their world and when she is hired by the head honcho to work for them it proves to be an interesting and nearly deadly plot twist.
This book joins Anita after she has built her reputation and introduces some sterotypically enjoyable characters, but it's really a stepping stone onto the next novels, I've read 8 in in as many days and I'm only now starting to put the books down long enough to sleep and eat. This series is definately worth a go and gets better and more intriguing up to "Blue Moon".
interesting but not well written - Rated 
i read this book a good 2 years ago and gave it a review of 2/10 calling it 'badly written claptrap'.
im writing this now to recind that view and give it a revised rating of 6/10. it isnt well written - its sarcastic, not funny where it tries, and uninspired in prose. the plot involves lots of interesting stuff, rituals, vampires, quite a bit of action and enough supernatural stuff to keep you satisfied.
but the plot is not well executed, there seem to be a great deal of superfluous scenes and anita just stumbles across the loose tongued villian - no clue setup, no piecing together of leads, just one red herring - in short not a satisfying crime novel at all - but more than satisfying in the vampire/supernatural stakes (haha - i crack myself up)
lastly, i really like Anita herself (apart from the pointless penguins:S) and i will read the next one because her story supposedly gets more complex (involved with vamps etc)
enjoyable vamp fiction, but not well executed literature. 6/10
- The best vamp book i ever read was Fevre Dream- George R R Martin (check that out instead)
GOING UP THEN GOING DOWN!! - Rated
DEFFENTLY WORTH READING (LKH) I LOVED THE WHOLE ANITA BLAKE SERIES BUT WAS HIGHLY DISSAPOINTED WITH LAST FEW(4/?)BOOKS THERE WAS NO VOILENCE, NO POLICE WORK, NO NOTHING APART FROM SEX! AND IVE LOST COUNT WITH WHO SHES SHACKING UP WITH I HATE THE WHOLE RICHARD THING. WHY IS HE STILL INTRESTED WITH HER WHEN SHES PROBABLY GOT ALL THE STD'S(I KNOW I KNOW SHE CANT GET CONTRACT ILLNESSES NOW) BUT COME ON LK GET ANITA BACK TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS AND IF NEED BE GET HER TO STRAP A DILDO/VIBRATOR ON HERSELF!!!
A modern vampire story with a twist. - Rated
Set in modern-day America, except with vampires legally recognised. You can't put a stake though just any vampire's heart, that would be murder -- you need a warrant first. Anita Blake's 'day'-job is as an Animator -- raising zombies from the dead for short periods of time, usually to settle legal disputes over wills. And she helps out the police department's Preternatural division. But she is also The Executioner: a Vampire Hunter who tracks down and kills rogue vampires. Now someone or something is murdering powerful vampires, and they want her to find and stop the killer. She would prefer to put a stake through her employer's heart.
This is a very successful cross between the vampire and detective genres. It is often difficult to write a successful science fiction or fantasy detective story, because of the danger of using techno babble as a plot device such as the plot being solved by "and so he got out of the locked room by using his sonic screwdriver". However, detective novels fall along a spectrum from "English country house who done it mysteries", where the reader and detective are swamped with clues and red herrings and have to puzzle out the solution, to `American hard-boiled gum-shoe noir', where the cynical and world-weary detective keeps poking sticks into holes and getting beaten up until the killer becomes obvious.
The latter style can translate well into fantasy, where the critters doing the beatings-up are a bit strange; and this is what we get here. Blake doesn't so much solve the mystery, as get everybody riled up enough that eventually the killer tries for her.
Brilliant can't wait to read the next - Rated
This is a fresh twist on the vampire idea. The characters are appealing and the plot keeps you gripped until the last page. I would recommend this to any vampire genre fan.
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