Product Description

Readers can’t get enough of the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blake’s werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean- Claude’s reign—and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen’s new rise to power.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2757 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

From Publishers Weekly
The florid 16th Anita Blake novel (after 2007's The Harlequin) updates Anita's endlessly erotic adventures as a living vampire with many weird lovers. Anita serves her vampire sweetie Jean-Claude, Master of the City of St. Louis, obsessed with feeding him and her own need to leech off of others' sexual pleasure or ardeur while retaining her rep as vampire executioner (despite the seeming conflict of interest), U.S. marshal and necromancer. She's also accompanying her bed-buddy Jason Schuyler to visit his dying estranged father in North Carolina. After arriving, Jason's mistaken for his rich cousin Keith Summerland, who's ditched his bride-to-be to run off with the wife of a vampire Master, giving Anita a case to solve between wild orgies with wereanimals. Hamilton chronicles Anita's escapades with a growing air of ennui, which longtime readers can't help sharing as sex increasingly takes the place of plot and character development. (June)
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Review
Praise for The Harlequin: “Breathtaking.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A hardcore guilty pleasure.”
—Times (London)

“Spellbinding and provocative.”
—Best Reviews

Customer Reviews

Not a 1 because it is a step in the right direction
Basic plot is that Anita goes with Jason to meet his family because his father is dying of cancer. She is playing his girlfriend because one of her boyfriends talked her into it. OK, well that really isn't the plot, the real plot is her just having sex with Jason and whoever else pops in - and annoying everyone she comes into contact with.

I have to say this was a step (albeit a baby step) closer to what the series used to be. Most of the time you watch characters grow in a series, however in this one they all seem to be regressing to high school... or at least high school in some twisted porn. Anyway, on the off chance that the series ever does rebound, there is some info you may want. However, I would by no means recommend buying. You are by far better off if you just check it out from the library.

Shorter and less complex, like Mica
This book focused on one plot line, rather than the usual 3. I had to practically skip the whole first disk of the book. It was more like the fairy series in that regard. I am not a romance novel person. I like the plot to move and lots of character development. I felt like she was thinking about something else when she wrote this, but had a deadline to meet. Not up to the usual par for Anita, still entertaining.

I wished it was abridged
One of the worst books that I have read in a long time. I was a big fan of her early books and gave up on the series a few books ago. Lacking anything better to read I picked this one up and found it to be the worst one yet. Marmee wasn't scary because all she did was give Anita an excuse to screw more men and the other bad guys didn't enter the story until nearly the end. In other words very little action.

I have never read this series for the sex, I enjoyed the action. It was nice to see a strong female character. Anita is no longer strong, just sex starved.