Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Incubus Dreams

I just spend the last 24 hours devouring Laurell K Hamilton's newest book, Incubus Dreams. It's the most recent addition to the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series.

Some background: The title character Anita Blake is a necromancer, a Master Vampire's human servant, and the queen of the local wereleopard pard. She helps the St. Louis police solve crimes related to the preternatural, and is in general an all-around bad ass chick.

In Incubus Dreams, Anita is called upon to investigate multiple-vampire killings of strippers. All of her friends on the police force don't believe she'll do her job because of her ties to Jean-Claude, the Master of the City. But with her expanding powers and the help of the men who love her, Anita uses her gifts to find the murderers.

If you like erotica that includes vampires and lycanthropes, you would really like this book. If you liked the first 5 books or so in this series, you're going to hate this book. There are only 3 scenes where Anita is at crime scenes, and probably a dozen sex scenes. The sex scenes are almost all threesomes with Anita and any combination of 2 men. We've got Jean-Claude and Richard, Nathaniel and Damien, Nathaniel and Jean-Claude, the list just goes on, and it includes vampires we've never seen in the series before now.

I'm sure I'll re-read it almost immediately, mainly because the first read was so fast I'm sure I missed things. But for people who liked Anita the way she started out, you probably want to skip this one. In fact, you'd be best pretending the series ended at Obsidian Butterfly.

Merry Part and Blessed Be - Oh and do we like pink?
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

...and, if you like Edward, you pretend the series ended *before* Obsidian Butterfly.

#sighs# I don't know, I just read Cereulean Sins, and there was about four pages of plot at the beginning, and four pages at the end, and the rest was "Let's see how many people Anita can sleep with in one book, and if we can't think of a reason for them to jump in bed with her, they can shout at her instead." I suppose there's nothing wrong with that per se, but it's a far cry from the first ones.

The pink's fine, but I'm glad you said- for a brief second I thought something had gone horribly wrong with my monitor #grins#

Al

11:47 PM
Anonymous said...

I really would like to see her pick one of the story lines and make it the cool, kick ass girl story and let the other one be the sex story. With Chains you really just could tell things were going to porn on paper. I reread from the begining up to Chains over the past few months. It really does help to read them in order.

I am kinda looking forward to the next book in the Meredith series. I don't have alot of faith after reading the reviews of her short story read:'puff peice' in Cravings.

Oh and pink... Pink it's my new obsession... Or maybe not so much...

Rob

9:18 PM

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