Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton – Introducing Anita Blake!
Introducing Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter….
I’ve always loved horror stories, and always enjoyed the age old tale of vampires, beginning with Dracula and moving on to more modern interpretations and retellings. In the form of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Laurell Hamilton has managed not only to create a formidable opponent for the enemy, but also to bring Vampires into the mainstream – in the world of this series, you need a warrant to execute a vampire, and vampirism is legal as long as all parties are of age and consenting! In fact the premise of this story is that someone is killing innocent vampires, and Anita Blake is recruited to help stop them!
Anita is much more than a Vampire Hunter – she also raises Zombies, a kind of “necromancer” by profession. In this first of the series, Guilty Pleasures, as well as the unravelling vampire murder mystery, we also learn how Anita Blake got started, and are introduced to the mysterious Jean Claude, a master vampire and Anita’s arch enemy, but also destined to become very close to her…
Fast paced, humourous and intelligent, quirky and original, this is the book which got me hooked on the series (I am on book 7 now!). More reviews to follow of the rest of the books, but if you haven’t yet discovered the world of Anita Blake and modern day vampires, now might be as good a time as any to start 