I would have said shared boyfriend, but Echo really only had one person she dated, and that was Fortune.Fortune was my girlfriend's girlfriend, or maybe Fortune was my girlfriend, too. "I left my girlfriend behind to make sure the live-in girlfriend of my ex-lover and current vampire servant didn't harm anyone, while I went to have a date with our shared lover. We get lots of relationship paragraphs like this from Anita: The narrative drones on and on as Anita and her entourage reminisce, bicker, discuss various aspects of sex, copulate, shower, discuss sex some more, spar, discuss sex some more, and then do it all over again. Some of the Harlequin (former Vampire Council enforcers) want in on Anita and Jean-Claude's polyamorous orgies, but Anita is planning to limit the number of bed partners she has, so she refuses and they get mad. Then we have to wade through a rehash of the Belle Morte story line and the Marmee Noir (aka Mother of All Darkness) story line along with a review of the situation with the Harlequin, who now must (unwillingly and unhappily) bow down to Jean-Claude as their master and Anita as their queen. Hamilton insists that we know every detail of their hair (color, style, length) eyes (color, shape, changeability) physical build (height, muscularity, shoulder width) and love styles (cuddlers, toppers, bottomers). After 200 pages (a third of the way into the book), Hamilton still hadn't immersed Anita into the plot, and even though I was looking forward to this being an "Edward" novel, Edward himself had not appeared-only his voice on the telephone.īasically, the pages I read consisted of an agonizingly slow and tedious review of all of the men in Anita's life (and some of the women). I read the first 207 pages of this door-stop of a book, and realized that I just didn't care about the plot or the characters enough to slog through to the end (page 708). This is a first for me: I'm writing a review of a novel that I just couldn't force myself to finish. Nightmares spring from.a place that couldn’t be less welcoming to a vampire, And whenĪnita joins forces with her friend Edward to stop the carnage, Damian will beĪt their side, even if it means traveling back to the land where all his Say love is a great motivator, but hatred gets the job done, too. Who created him, who subjected him to centuries of torture, might be losingĬontrol, allowing rogue vampires to run wild and break one of their kind’s few Now, with Damian at his most vulnerable, Anita needs him the most. Instead, he’sīeing bombarded with violent nightmares and blood sweats. The rising sunĭoesn’t usher in the peaceful death that he desperately needs. Has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state. In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake learns
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