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 - Some good, some bad, but mostly badI get that she's a succubus, and that she really is involved in quite a few committed relationships, but why are the parties in love? I can see the ardeur pairing her up with Nathaniel and Micah (explained in the last book), but I still don't get the relationships with Jean Claude, Asher and Richard. The latter in particular has made her feel particularly bad, but they can't seem to stop hurting each other. At least in this book she realized that she was giving Richard her anger, and that she could take it back. Anita, while quite strong, is more REactive than PROactive when it comes to her powers. She seems to stumble over things rather than investigate what she can and can't do. Most of the "insights" come from those around her, and then she has her "AHA" moment. She has repeatedly discovered that Jean Claude keeps her in the dark about, well, most everything. She gets a huge amount of information from third parties, especially from Jason in this book, and yet that doesn't seem to particularly bother her in the long term. It should! If he has info she needs, keeping her in a bubble isn't a smart idea for any of the parties. They have to deal with a lot of political/power issues, but she's usually the last to find out what's what. Richard's self loathing is getting REALLY old, and so is his extreme jealousy of Anita's antics while he's doing everything female he can find. He seems to take one step forward and two steps back on a routine basis. Nathaniel isn't a major player in this book, but in the last two, he seemed to be coming more into his own, and Anita finally realized that she had to go to Asher for some info on the BDSM scene to make her live-in lover happy in the long term. Of course that isn't explored for the reader, but the other sex scenes are quite graphic. In summary, this book was the worst of the bunch, and it wasn't until the end where things really picked up. Too bad I had to go through hundreds of pages to get there. Rating: - Stand in line to skip this one if you expect plotThere is an overarching plot in most of the Anita Blake novels, but you won't find it in this one. There is one, and only one thing that happens that would change the structure of the world for the characters, and it isn't given much attention. SPOILER WARNING! So you don't waste your time with this book, here's the goody: weretigers have a way to breed successfully. That should make a huge difference to the shapechanger population, since none of the rest of them can carry a pregnancy to term. Rating: - Well..Well I have to say that at least this was more entertaining than Stephanie Meyer's Breaking Dawn Rating:  - Borrow don't buyWeak at best, to bad amazon doesn't have negative stars. Dragging out this transition is just too painful. If you take out the unrelated sex acts you may have 75 pages, which on my budget is not worth the retail price (I borrowed my copy ). I am now getting my vampire fix from C. Harris and others. LKH better look over her shoulder because there are some really good authors gaining on her. Rating: - WorthlessI can't believe there's an audience out there that reads this stuff. Poorly written. I MEAN VERY, VERY, POORLY WRITTEN. The publishing house for this book must not go for quality work. If this author can get published, anyone can.
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