Hit List (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #20) By: Laurell K. Hamilton (Book Review)

 ***This review will contain spoilers***

Summary:

A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect "monsters" are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, U.S. Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer.

This book was beyond deceiving because it gave old school Anita Blake vibes and yet when you look close enough there really wasn't much of a story. Lots of words with no substance. This was supposed to be an epic book with a crazy ending where Anita Blake finally fights the mother of all darkness and yet it was so anticlimactic. I don't know why I keep lying to myself thinking Hamilton will redeem herself and give us something half decent but every time I'm let down. 

Seems like every book now that I read from this series Anita has a new obsession or attraction to another lycanthrope. Anita is collecting men like Thanos is for Infinity stones. Every book focuses on a new guy which sucks. How do you write murder mystery combined with supernatural amazingly for the first dozen books and now write such disappointing material? Anita used to be a bad ass and now she's been reduced to a sexual object for Hamilton to play out her sexual fantasies. 

We were supposed to have this epic showdown between Anita and the mother of all darkness but instead of having a fight it was Anita letting her psychic shields down and essentially, absorbing the mother's energy, thus, defeating her. Sounds lame, doesn't it? Due to all of her metaphysical links, they didn't fight the mother's energy but instead absorbed it which sounds lame as fuck. She's supposed to be the creator of vampires and yet she's so easily defeated? I would've loved instead if they would have found an artefact or an old scroll depicting an old ritual to bind the dark mother or trap her spirit in an object. Containment instead of absorption sounds a heck of a lot better and gives possibility of future books where she might escape. It makes her sound so much scarier where she can't be defeated but she can be contained for the mean time. How can you kill something as old as time? You fucking can't. 

Rating:

I'm giving Hit List 1 out of 5 stars. I'm keeping this review very short because I'm at the point where I'm just trying to read my way out of this series as quickly as possible. And if Hamilton doesn't have anything good to write about then I won't keep wasting my time with these long reviews. This series is showing just how lazy Hamilton has become. It's become less about the story and journey and more about how many situations Anita can fuck her way out of. And now that the mother of all darkness is dead which way will this series go? 

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