The Killing Dance
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'These days my life is a cross between a preternatural soap opera and an action-adventure movie.' The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and a third. Word on the street is that Anita Blake, preternatural expert and vampire killer extraordinaire, is worth half a million dollars. Dead, not alive. So what's a girl to do but turn to the men in her life for help? Which in my case means an alpha werewolf and a master vampire. With professional killers on your trail, it's not a bad idea to have as much protection as possible, human or otherwise. But I'm beginning to wonder if two monsters are better than one...
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This was a good Anita Blake book. It had everything I expect at this stage in the series: mystery, action, violence, horror, and hot erotic tension. All the elements combined almost perfectly.
Hamilton has done a great job of slowly evolving her characters over the course of the series so far. Anita's “it's complicated” relationship with Richard and Jean-Claude is as believable as a menage-a-trois with a vampire and a werewolf can be. Their tension didn't feel forced, and their anger and frustration felt real. Anita's exploration of her magic powers combines with her exploration of her sexuality effortlessly–and quite steamy, if I may say so.
Plotwise, there is one plot point with a decomposing vampire that didn't quite gel together (the plot point, not the vampire, although the vampire didn't quite come together in the end, either) with the rest of the epic-length story, but I'll forgive it.
