Louis PD and her relationship with Jean Claude in what’s ostensibly “his city”. Anita is honestly at her best when she isn’t comfortable, where she’s not automatically the top dog by virtue of her work with the St. The setting change also introduces new characters in the form of local law enforcement, vampires and the fae I keep mentioning.

Louis and the ones in these various locations. Moving her outside of her element, even as close by as a community about an hour away from Branson, adds the potential for interesting tension to the worldbuilding and the plot as Anita often struggles with the differences between her new location’s supernatural community and her own as well as power/responsibility differences between “her” cops in St. For much of the series, Anita keeps to her city and has only left it a handful of times before (about a third of the novels are set outside of St. Louis and that’s one of the few highlights of the novel. That being said, let’s talk about what Bloody Bones did well, what it did that could’ve used work, and all the things that made me want to chuck my kindle halfway across the room while I was rereading.īloody Bones is Anita’s first trip out of St. It also introduces interesting new aspects to the worldbuilding by being the first (and so far, only) novel in the series to have fairies onscreen – a disservice I think because they’re some of the most interesting non-human characters that she’s created and their portrayal in Bloody Bones is nothing like the way they’re treated in her Merry Gentry series. It’s not one of the worst books in the series thus far, but it’s not a novel I enjoyed rereading.Īs one of the earlier books in the series, the novel focuses more on the supernatural detective aspects that were significant in the first ten or eleven books in the series. This is one of the UK covers for Bloody Bones That Hamilton has up on her website.īloody Bones, the fifth book in Laurell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is another busy book in the series where a ton of stuff happens but also… nothing happens. If this all goes well, this will be what these reread recaps look like for the rest of the series!Ĭontent Warnings: brief descriptions of sexual assault and harassment, descriptions of violence, non-specific mention of child sexual assault and turning (both done by a vampire pedophile) in the plot, as well as a reference to the snuff film described in the previous book

For this installment of my reread series, I’ll be changing up the format in order to look at “The Good”, “The Bad”, and “The Just Plain Borked” parts of the novel.

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