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. Half a million dollars? That’s like a piss in the ocean. Word on the street was that Anita Blake, preternatural expert and vampire killer extraordinaire, was worth half a million dollars.

They can do what they like to try and kill you.

There are no rules with where people may assassinate you. The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. These days my life is a cross between preternatural soap opera and an action-adventure movie. Shall we look at the blurb? Haven’t done that in a while and it may back up my hypothesis. Good Lord, this one looks like someone spent five minutes with Clip Art in Photoshop and thought ‘That’ll do’. It is A LIE that you cannot tell a book by it’s cover. And I can tell this one is going to be bad because of the cover. It’s both frustrating and thrilling because I do get a perverse thrill from how bad these books are. Including my Master’s Degree course next year, I will be spending the same amount of time reading and ranting about Anita Blake as I will have done at university. I am realising this as I have been notified that I have graduated with a 2:1 after three years of study. Do you realise that I have now been reading and blogging about Anita Blake for ten months now? And I’m only on book six? It’s going to take like, four years to get through it all, especially seeing as most of them have 40+ chapters to go.

The killing dance laurell k hamilton