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Narcissus In Chains (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #10) By: Laurell K. Hamilton (Book Review)

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 (This review will contain spoilers) Summary: Just returned to St. Louis after six months away, Anita is still no closer to choosing between her lovers—Jean-Claude, a vampire, and Richard, a werewolf. But she has to rely on both for help after two of the wereleopards that she has been watching are abducted at a seedy club called Narcissus in Chains. Anita and her boyfriends rescue the wereleopards from the sinister people holding them, but Anita is wounded in the fight and put at risk of becoming a wereleopard herself. Richard angrily captures the wereleopard he believes is responsible and threatens to execute him. Anita must now rescue that wereleopard from Richard and the werewolves he leads, even as she mourns the apparent end of her relationship with him. Then she realizes that those who kidnapped the first two wereleopards are targeting other lycanthropes. Maybe she will be next. This book took a whole different turn than I expected and have been used to. There have been small tea

Obsidian Butterfly (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #9) By: Laurell K. Hamilton (Book Review)

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 ***This review will contain spoilers*** Summary: Edward was a hit man. He specialized in monsters. Vampires, shapeshifters, anything and everything. There were people like me who did it legal, but Edward didn't sweat the legalities or, hell, the ethics. He was an equal opportunity killer. I may be one of the few friends that Edward has, but it's like being friends with a tame leopard. It may curl on the foot of your bed and let you pet its head, but it can still eat your throat out... Another fantastic book to this series! I'm happy that the 'boys' took a backseat and it was all about Anita and her crazy ass adventures. Although, do mutilated bodies count as an adventure? In this book, Anita is going to New Mexico because Edward cashed in his favor from Anita to help him on whatever he decides. Anita is brought in on a case where bodies are being mutilated and people are being skinned alive. Never a dull moment in Anita's life.  It's so refreshing to have a