Get up, get up, or you'll die!

10. Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton

This is the latest installment in the "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter" series. This series was my first foray into the now burgeoning "urban fantasy" genre. I liked this book because LKH got back to a plot driven story. Readers who are fans of her sizzling and . . . creative . . . sex scenes will be disappointed because this volume had only one, and it was fairly tame. I really loved reading this one (I read about 75% of it in one day), but the conflict resolution at the end was a little too . . . quick? I've kind of gotten used to LKH writing a fairly lengthy (upwards of 100 pages) climax so we get lots of details and lots of back-and-forth in the fight. We get to see Anita's vulnerabilities and how she deals with them. This ending was so Mary Sue. There was no real struggle -- and when one is dealing with the Mother of All Darkness, the mother of all the vampires, one expects a great deal of struggle.

Laurell, I respect you a great deal. I think I've read 98% of your published works. But that climax and resolution? Not up to your par. *shakes head sadly*

Book 4 of the JADRC. I'm thinking about calling this one on account of the nine-year-old's decided lack of motivation. As of the holiday, she STILL hasn't finished her first book. More about that in a different post.