Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Getting my money back Worst Anita Blake book to date =-= SPOILERS=-= It's almost as if Hamilton didn't want to write this book and did us the disfavor of trying anyway. Half of the entire book is one sex scene and the inevitable, boring drama fall out which has accompanied Anita's story of late "Oh my god another man decides he's Bisexual to make Anita's life better." Because sexuality is so transient that lesbians suddenly become heterosexual, and heterosexual men with real homophobia just need the "right man" to turn them gay. And that's not even the bad part. When we finally get to the Undead mystery part of the book and we get to see Edward again Anita spends her entire time in Ireland, on a case halfheartedly making out with her people in front of police acting more like an emo kid instead of the hard hitting, trash talking Anita Blake we all came to love in the first place. The entire city of Dublin is being over run with the new undead and whole families are being torn up and Anita's having yet another mind to mind discussion with all of her men about Richard's lack of comfort in she and Jean Claudes lifestyle. The Fey element is revealed and you think "Finally I was wondering when they were going to explore Nathaniels possible Fey lineage," it all turns into so much background noise. It's the Fairy Kingdom homeland and Hamilton can't even bring herself to have more than one scene of Anita interacting with the Fey? I fear for her Mary Gentry series! Even the metaphysics worked in this book are glossed over so that the reader has no idea that anything happened magically until its brought up chapters later like "of course this thing happened even though there were no written clues to say it did." The ending....my god the ending. Rushed is not the word, pushed off a gorram cliff is more like it. The main villain deserved so much more than "and then Anita sucks a guard dry of his life force, the wereleopard uses a knife on their captors instead of gaining more control and shifting to just claws and tearing up the guys. But nope the guards get distracted by Anita flashing her bits while she tries to pull her hand out of manacles. Isn't that BRIMMING with female empowerment?! Then the bad guys inexplicably become good guys, help Anita escape because someone they are now all Anita's brides even though they were the ones who kidnapped her and killed some of her men. yeah makes total sense. End boss battle makes no sense at all. Anita can't raise the dead, ok, but she creates a cloud of Ghosts that Hamilton spent the entire series saying that ghosts were powerless and now these ghosts defeat a ages old Vampire/ Fey hybrid who feeds on fear and is carrying a part of the Dark Mother inside her and Ghost...GHOSTS defeat her?! The scene is written like something out of a visit to Halloween Town exhibit at Epcot and then Anita just goes home and now Ireland has Vampires. The bulk of the real story is contained in three measly last chapters, while the majority is emo Anita being grumpy about have to eat breakfast. Hey Hamilton a note directly to you: Disgusted, absolutely disgusted. If you don't care about your characters and don't want to write anymore then stop forcing the fans to sit through your horrid attempts at narration and go to therapy and deal with yourself. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK