Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Laurell K. Hamilton

Jun 2010 · Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Book 19 · Sold by Penguin

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The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children...

Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita's past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It's hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America.

The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can't succeed in taking over Anita's body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again. Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word: "Run if you can..."

Ratings and reviews

She told half the story really. All the sex is nauseating. And this time Anita crosses another of her lines and has sex with a woman while she also has sex with a Tiger in the middle of a party. The writer should stop reflecting her own sexual fantasy and curiosity into this character. She's ruining her core character. It's gone from mystery/fantasy to soft porn. The orgies are pushing a bit too far.

After searching for Flirt only to find it was a short story more than a full book, I just decided to buy Bullet instead. It was worth it, a nice read.

These books are not for the faint of heart. This is a world that we are blessed to never now with all the politics, sex, magic, and interrelationship drama one can imagine. Most people would never be able to handle what happens to the characters in this series. Eliminate the constant power struggles and it is simply a woman with a lot of men. Put them back and you are thankful Anita is on our side. If preternatural encounters, TONS of sex and even more love is what you want read these books. If not, sorry.

About the author

Laurell K. Hamilton is a full-time writer and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the Merry Gentry series. She lives in a suburb of St. Louis with her family.