Check out Guilty Pleasures if you’re into urban fantasy stories from Lillith Saintcrow, Patricia Briggs, or Gena Showalter. I’m interested in the graphic novel and possibly book two once I finish up some other urban fantasy series. I hear the series gets better, like so many others, book one does have some exposition. I enjoyed the book, although it dragged in parts. They team up with Anita for a daring rescue mission. My favorite side characters are the rat shifters. We meet other supernatural creatures along the way. Much of the book is Anita following clues and reluctantly drawn further into vamp politics. This vamp really wants to ruin Anita’s life. We’re not talking Kirsten Dunst here either. She presents in the body of a young child. The master vampire is an ancient and nasty villain of the book. When that doesn’t work, they hold her friend hostage to force her into the investigation. At first, local nightclub owner Jean Claude tries to charm Anita onto the case. Instead of killing her, they hire her to find the real killers. St Louis is having a string of vampire slayings. Most humans don’t see the real evil since vampires erase memories and don’t usually make a public scene. They use S&M and the blood to secure human blood slaves. These vamps are in plain sight at vampire clubs or secret house parties. No such luck in this book, which is swimming in vampires! These vamps are not the romanticized ones of True Blood or Interview with a Vampire. She prefers to simply steer clear of them whenever possible. The vampires even have a semi-religion where people can pledge to become one. In this world, supernatural creatures are out in the open.
She has killed some vamps, but only because they stepped out of line. What a handy skill to have when solving criminal cases. She is licensed to raise people from the dead and works closely with the police. The story introduces us to Anita Blake who is a private investigator. One of the bingo challenges was to read the oldest book on your to-be-read shelf. I finally decided to pick it up for Dewey’s readathon. As a lover of vampires and urban fantasy, I have been curious since it’s been around a long time. This is the first book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series.
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