Hamiliton's 'Blood Noir' leave blood lust
By: K.J. Stimpson
Issue date: 10/7/08 Section: Entertainment
There are books that come prepared like steak. They can be bloody, seared, sizzling or well done. Laurell K. Hamilton brings a bloody, sizzling hunk of beef with her latest novel "Blood Noir."
"Blood Noir" is the 16th addition to Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series.
By the end of the first four chapters, a mixed feeling arises where you don't know whether you want a cigarette or a box of chocolates.
"His hands slid underneath the jacket of my suit, and a little lower to trace the top of my skirt. His hands hesitated a little at the Browning BDM in its shoulder holster. Guns do get in the way of cuddling," Hamilton wrote describing the greeting Blake receives from her "sweetie" upon her return home from work.
Anita Blake works as a vampire hunter and federal marshal, however she also is a necromancer who is marked by the master vampire of St. Louis, Jean-Claude. Blake is unique because she is bound to werewolves, wereleopards and weretigers through a paranormal, spiritual connection.
In this novel, however, Blake doesn't need to be a marshal or a necromancer or a master vampire's human servant. Blake volunteers to pose as her friend Jason's girlfriend, and go home with him to Asheville, N.C., to see his dying father.
A world of trouble ensues, though, when they arrive in the middle of a scandal involving a governor's philandering son causing complications before his own wedding.
Then just to put the icing on the cake, Blake must fight the oldest vampire, Marmee Noir, from using Blake's power to wake her from her sleep, so she can regain her strength and reek havoc on the world once again.
Dealing with multitudes of lovers to keep your paranormal strength up is one thing, but throw in a media scandal, being possessed, and causing a war for your vampire master just might be cutting it a little too thin for Blake.
"There was a voice in the darkness. I thought at first I was hearing the bad guys, and then I understood the voice, and knew that it was much worse than bad guys," Hamilton wrote as Blake awakens a strange room after being abducted.
The twists and turns of "Blood Noir" add a scintillating touch to a most dangerous story.
I give this book four and a half stars out of five, because it ended on a happy to be continued note after all the suspenseful buildup.
"Blood Noir" can be found at the Eastern New Mexico University Golden Library in special collections, located upstairs. Hamilton's novel was released May 2008.
"Blood Noir" is the 16th addition to Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series.
By the end of the first four chapters, a mixed feeling arises where you don't know whether you want a cigarette or a box of chocolates.
"His hands slid underneath the jacket of my suit, and a little lower to trace the top of my skirt. His hands hesitated a little at the Browning BDM in its shoulder holster. Guns do get in the way of cuddling," Hamilton wrote describing the greeting Blake receives from her "sweetie" upon her return home from work.
Anita Blake works as a vampire hunter and federal marshal, however she also is a necromancer who is marked by the master vampire of St. Louis, Jean-Claude. Blake is unique because she is bound to werewolves, wereleopards and weretigers through a paranormal, spiritual connection.
In this novel, however, Blake doesn't need to be a marshal or a necromancer or a master vampire's human servant. Blake volunteers to pose as her friend Jason's girlfriend, and go home with him to Asheville, N.C., to see his dying father.
A world of trouble ensues, though, when they arrive in the middle of a scandal involving a governor's philandering son causing complications before his own wedding.
Then just to put the icing on the cake, Blake must fight the oldest vampire, Marmee Noir, from using Blake's power to wake her from her sleep, so she can regain her strength and reek havoc on the world once again.
Dealing with multitudes of lovers to keep your paranormal strength up is one thing, but throw in a media scandal, being possessed, and causing a war for your vampire master just might be cutting it a little too thin for Blake.
"There was a voice in the darkness. I thought at first I was hearing the bad guys, and then I understood the voice, and knew that it was much worse than bad guys," Hamilton wrote as Blake awakens a strange room after being abducted.
The twists and turns of "Blood Noir" add a scintillating touch to a most dangerous story.
I give this book four and a half stars out of five, because it ended on a happy to be continued note after all the suspenseful buildup.
"Blood Noir" can be found at the Eastern New Mexico University Golden Library in special collections, located upstairs. Hamilton's novel was released May 2008.