In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake learns that evil is in the eye of the beholder… Anita has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state. The rising sun doesn’t usher in the peaceful death that he desperately needs. Instead, he’s being bombarded with violent nightmares and blood sweats. And now, with Damian at his most vulnerable, Anita … Damian at his most vulnerable, Anita needs him the most. The vampire who created him, who subjected him to centuries of torture, might be losing control, allowing rogue vampires to run wild and break one of their kind’s few strict taboos.
Some say love is a great motivator, but hatred gets the job done, too. And when Anita joins forces with her friend Edward to stop the carnage, Damian will be at their side, even if it means traveling back to the land where all his nightmares spring from…a place that couldn’t be less welcoming to a vampire, an assassin, and a necromancer: Ireland.
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Love love all Anita Blake’s books
reading the series
This book has what you’ve come to expect of an Anita Blake novel – without as much action and with a mind numbing amount of character self-analysis. What is left is somewhat less satisfying than the earlier novels. There were several other plot points and characters that could have been developed that were instead spent on an excessive amount of internal relationship blah blah blah.
I love the Anita Blake series even before ebooks came along
Love the Anita Blake books!
I am a big fan of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series. I have read all of the books several times. My only complaint is that earlier books had more action and less sex . If you like vampires and wares with lots of steamy parts, then this series fits the bill. I do recommend reading the series in order as the different story lines will be more meaningful.
I have have been hooked on Laurell K. Hamilton’s books from the first read some 15 years ago. While at times I wanted to leap onto the page and slap some sense into her female leads, I’m always in their corner. She does her research on the origins of faeries and creates a vivid world of magic and venality confronted by the mundane day-to-day reality of the human world. A world where cops persist in holding onto misogyny even when facing off against a rabid-shape shifter, or bloodthirsty vampire.
laurel k never fails to give me a good read and Crimson Death is everything i wanted it to be.
Good book, but each book seems to be shorter than the last
Her books always tantalize my dark side. Living in another world for a few hours is always a wakeup call.
Best Anita Blake in a few years
If you’re still a fan, this is an okay entry in the series. Less anonymous sex with people you won’t remember Anita even meeting but literally 375 pages before anything relating to the purported story of vampires vs. the get world. Just okay, no where near her best…
Loved this one just like the rest. She (Anita) grows and changes in all her stories. In this one she learns that what you think to be true is not alway what is true. The ending is awesome!
I love Ms. Hamilton books! She never let’s me down!
Definitely not the place to begin reading this series! Too many characters, too many story lines, rather more sex than even I enjoy. 25% of this book was all I chose to read.
I’m a fan of this series. I enjoyed the relationship issues shown in the book and how the characters deal with them. A lot of the book was devoted to this. The Ireland portion was good. It did culminate rather quickly, so fans looking for more action or more Ireland may be disappointed.
the Anita Blake character used to be tough and witty. Now she is a boring slut. Very disappointing.
HORRIBLE! How low can she go?
This book has Anita going to Ireland with Damian and Nathaniel. Because Ireland has so much magic, it’s even in the earth, Anita’s powers don’t work here. Really like this book and the baddie is very, very evil.
I own all her books but have not seen any new ones in quite a while.