Burnt Offerings - Laurell K. Hamilton

This is the seventh volume in the Anita Blake series and in my opinion its the best. The books are set in an alternate history in which vampires, zombies, fairies, trolls etc are all real and have rights. Antia is a necromancer whcih means she can raise and control the dead. The plot is the usual action packed nonsense. Really you should read the previous volumes to get up-to-speed (all heartily reccommended)but theres enogh info shoved into the ...
...ahead. (These info dumps are really annoying if you've read them in order) The plot revolves around the arrival of the vampire council. Anita and co. defeated a council member in the last book and Jean-Claude(her vampire lover)should have taken his place on the council. He didn't as he wasn't strong enough to hold the place against challengers and the council come to town to sort him out. The up-shot of this is that Anita and Richard (her werewolf ...

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Review of Burnt Offerings - Laurell K. Hamilton

Being the seventh in a series, I firstly must strongly suggest that the previous volumes are read prior to this one, as it will give you more depth to the characters. As many serialisations do, there are sections in the book that refresh the memory, but these are often brief, and not as fullling! Anita Blakes world is filled with all the things that go bump in the night, vampires, zombie, werewolves, wererats and so on. From what I took from the ...
...roots, supporting the RIP Team to discover the source of the fires that seem to be directed towards vampire owned businesses, and I have to admit, the fact that Anita now fraternises with the beasts more than the humans did make for an interesting take, particularly in how the human RIP Team now deals with her. However, it ended up being more about Anita's relationship with her current and past boyfriend, and how Anita is increasingly becoming superwoman. ...

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Review of Burnt Offerings - Laurell K. Hamilton

'Burnt Offerings' is the seventh of Laurell K. Hamilton's novels dealing with the life and times of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Really, this review is part of a serial review of the series. While I won't be giving away any spoilers about this novel below, it's inevitable that I reveal some important information from the previous books - often stuff that served as the dramatic conclusions/revelations to those volumes. You have been warned… ...
...for seven books? Well, as usual with such endeavours, things are beginning to sag by this point. As with the previous offering, 'The Killing Dance', the main source of enjoyment comes from the longer running themes rather than the action of the plot herein. Still, before we get to that, the story so far. Anita Blake, vampire hunter and animator of corpses, has finally resolved her love triangle. To everybody's surprise, not least her own, she currently ...

RichardW 12.01.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Burnt Offerings - Laurell K. Hamilton