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When Anita Blake’s boss at Animators, Inc., informs her that she’s expected to raise 300-year-ancient zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute, she’s understandably annoyed. But as soon as she arrives in Branson, Missouri, to do the deed, the occupation gets more fascinating. A psychotic sword-wielding vampire starts committing multiple murders in the area, and Anita will have to call on Jean-Claude, her powerful fanged suitor, for help. As always, Anita prevails over the undead, keeping Jean-Claude at arm’s length, clearing the cemetery land of an ancient enchantment, and nailing the vampiric killer in one fell swoop.
Review
“Highly-exciting, well-written, no holds-barred… jaw-dropping.”—Denver Post
“Breathtaking.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“What The Da Vinci Code did for the devout thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today
Reviews
34 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
This book takes a bite out of the vampire genre!
By A
This book blew me away. It was a different type tale than the usual vampire series. When the cover of the books states “Anita Blake-Vampire Seeker”, you can’t help life interested. Anita Blake is a self=assured monster seeker in a small skirt who carries an aresenal around with her at all times. She also happens to date both a vampire and a werewolf in her spare time. In this book, here seems to be two separate tales that meld into one. First she is questioned to animate the dead to settle a land dispute in Branson, Missouri. While doing so, she is called into a police investigation of the slaughter deaths of three teenage boys. Then another death of a teenage girl in her home-drained of blood. Along the way with the help of another animator co-worker and her vampire boyfriend, Anita works to solve the mystery of Bloody Bones. I truly loved this book, even though a first-person commentary is not usually my style, in this book it really works. Anita Blake has a biting persona that makes for a fun read whether you are into monster tales or not. Remeber this is not the first book in the Anita Blake series. I happened to read them in a backwards order, but it did not take away from my enjoyment
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.The best one yet! Lots of Jean-Claude!!
By CoffeeGurl
It is official that I’m addicted to this series. I’ve even neglected the Merry Gentry series, Laurell K. Hamilton’s faerie novels, which I started conception before the Anita Blake one. This is my favorite one to date. This series just keeps getting better and better! And the best part is that here is a lot of Jean-Claude in this one. The most I’d read him was in Circus of the Damned, and here are only bits and pieces of him in the other three, but he plays a more prominent role here. Bloody Bones illustrates the most challenging monsters Anita has ever had to deal with. Teenagers have been slaughtered in a small city of Missouri. The culprit is a creature unlike anything Anita has ever seen. It is stronger than a vampire, more treacherous and immortal to the core. To make matters worse, she has to raise an entire graveyard of three-hundred-year-ancient corpses to determine the fate of the graveyard’s rather lucrative land, which is owned by a family of faeries. Anita suspects that the graveyard raisings and the murders are together, and with the help of her acquaintances she is determined to bring all of those involved down…
Bloody Bones, like its predecessors, is nonstop action from beginning to end. The suspense is incredible, the quick-paced plot riveting. But it’s more than just the action and suspense that kept me glued to this book. I loved that I irrevocably got to know Jean-Claude in a deeper amount. We learn more about Jean-Claude’s background and history in a rather sexy bubble bath scene. JC and Anita fans will like to know that here is some nearness between them in this offering — a fleeting nearness, but an vital one nevertheless. And the best part is that Anita’s werewolf boyfriend Richard is not in the way. I loved it! Laurell K. Hamilton describes Jean-Claude’s sensuality in such a way that he’s nearly tangible. He’s certainly one of the sexiest characters I’ve read. I also got to read about some fantastic characters that were back after some notable absence, like Larry. I also like werewolf Jason. Anyway, this is my favorite offering. As said earlier, this series keeps getting better and better. I cannot wait to read the next one. In the meantime, I recommend Bloody Bones most highly…
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Way To Go Anita!!!
By Louise
The Anita Blake series just keeps getting better and better. And Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire of the City (St. Louis) is back in business. Anita has to leave her werewolf-boyfriend Richard and her vampire-boyfriend Jean-Claude (In a previous novel she agreed to date both of them to find out who she wants (to have sex with)) back in St. Louis, when she is questioned to travel to another part the country and raise a whole cemetery. A builder wants to use some land, but a local family is agaist him, because they say that the ancient cemetery beneath the impose a curfew is their family-funeral impose a curfew. Anita has to raise the dead and question them exactly what their family relations are. All is well, until something starts killing young boys in the woods, and a teenage girl dies from a vampire bite in her room. Anita has to look into a lot of stuff, life helped by her assistant, vampire-seeker-in-spe Larry. She is away from her usual turf, and the police in this part of the country are not too lucky about the well-known vampire-seeker doing what they reckon is their job. Anita has to call for help, and the only one who can help her is Jean-Claude, the gorgeous vampire who wants Anita as his lover and creature servant. Anita has resisted him for a long time, and she is not so sure what she feels. Here is a lot of drama, a lot of terrible vampires and the fey are introduced in this book, which make for some new and exciting ways to cheat, do magic and much more.
Another triumph for Laurell K. Hamilton
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A look that kills for the fifth Anita Blake, Vampire Seeker novel.
Here’s a occupation to strain even Anita Blake’s capabilities: raising an entire graveyard of two-hundred-year-ancient corpses.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5402 in eBooks
- Published on: 2002-09-26
- Released on: 2002-12-29
- Plot: Rouse eBook
- Number of items: 1