When Edward arrives he mentions trying to set a date for his marriage. This plot element is further complicated in Affliction after Jean Claude and Blake bring Asher back home because they and several others miss him as well as because Asher has been purposely alienating people in each city he visited. Deciding in the end that Jean Claude is the lesser of the two evils, she and Edward help defeat Mr Oliver. In the short story "Dancing" she describes herself as being 5'3 inches tall, as well as in Laughing Corpse, Ch. Her role as Larry's mentor is also further developed and she is forced to relive the trauma of her mother's death. Despite her often harsh nature, Anita has more positive attributes. Jean Claude and Anita determine that the ardeur is "seeking" food: specifically it may have shaped Anita's, Micah's, Nathaniel's, and Damian's personalities to make them more compatible partners for one another. "There's no end planned." Hamilton told I Smell Sheep that she plans to be writing Anita Blake books for a while: "I'd always seen the Anita Blake series as a mystery series which means there's no end planned. At a point where Anita and many of her other allies were injured, she asks to have sex with the werelion Rex, Joseph, so that she could gain the power to heal without the Munin. At the end of The Harlequin it is discovered that the Harlequin were not operating on official Council orders and were planning to take over Jean-Claude's territory. Anita Blake is a petite woman of mixed German and Mexican heritage with curly long raven hair and pale skin with scars scattered over her body. Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter is a series of urban fantasy novels, short stories, and comic books by Laurell K. Hamilton. Anita is slender but curvy, and short but muscular. Guilty Pleasures Anita Blake, Book 1. Anita, Micah and Jean-Claude also act as a happy threesome, but she doubts that happiness can last long. During this book she also begins learning magic through the Wiccan Marianne in an attempt to help teach Anita how to close off her metaphysical ties to Richard and Jean-Claude in an attempt to keep from being overwhelmed by them. There is also a 2 issue story "First Death" which is set 2 years prior to Guilty Pleasures, that fills in the details of her encounter with Valentine and Edward mentioned in Guilty Pleasures. It was formed by the Mother of All Darkness, modeled in style on the Commedia dell'arte and by action on the wild hunt. Buffy is some form of lycan, make your pick. There are 32 books in the anita blake series. For the urban fantasy series, see, Learn how and when to remove this template message, List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters, "Official Site of New York Times Bestselling Author Laurell K Hamilton", "Marvel Subscriptions ANITA BLAKE: THE LAUGHING CORPSE", "Laurell K. Hamilton | Book Videos, Interviews & Podcasts from B&N Studio", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Blake&oldid=1075434556, Articles needing additional references from November 2011, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Ma petite, The Executioner, Lupa, Little Queen, 'Nita, Gatita Negra, Anna, Kiddo, War, Queen, Dark Queen, Combat Training: Anita has a black belt in Judo as of the first book. To Anita's shock, she discovers that "Ted" has a fiancee, Donna, who is a new age bookstore owner. Anita finds the Irish police's attempts to treat vampires as just a medical emergency frustrating, and they find her unnecessarily bloodthirsty, but she's helpful enough that they don't send her immediately back. She is also not happy that her attempt to save Edward from getting scratched by the accused failed, and may have led to him contracting something out of her own blood instead. Later, when the Pope excommunicated all animators, Anita became an Episcopalian. However, they can't tell the police because they know that anyone who mentions the Harlequin without being invited, will be hunted down and killed. Anita is now so powerful that her attempt to raise a single person threatened to raise every corpse in the cemetery. Although she may not admit it, Anita initially has a deep contempt for vampires and the humans who serve them. None of the Horsemen are trained in traditional police work, but they have to figure out who went to all the trouble to set up the crime scene before the time limit in the warrant runs out. Loved Blackberries when he was alive. Anita was a badass vampire hunter, completely individual and the "strong heroine" her character changed a lot over the course of the books to where she became a completely different person- something she never could have forseen herself as in the first few books. Ten officers and one executioner have been slain, paranormal style. At the end of the book it is revealed that Richard is a werewolf. When the danger and the news coverage hit a climax at the same time, Anita and Jason are left carefully maneuvering around truck loads of drama and politics, not to mention just trying to survive. She's a vampire hunter, a necromancer, and a lycanthrope. Burnt Offerings (1998) ISBN 0-515-13447-3, 9. During the investigation Anita also discovers new things about herself. At the end of Skin Trade Marmee Noir's body was destroyed, however in Bullet her spirit returns to attack Anita and the Vampire Council. Guilty Pleasures (1993) ISBN 0-515-13449-X, 2. In the third novel (Circus of the Damned) Anita meets high school science teacher and closet werewolf Richard Zeeman and begins dating him. ", Anita's inner leopard is completely black, and described as "gleaming black" and being like a "dark shadow. The Girl who was Infatuated with Death (2004), Regional Preternatural Investigation Taskforce. The Lunatic Cafe (1996) ISBN 0-425-20137-6, 5. Donna becomes a target by trying to stop an unauthorized (but profitable) archaeological dig. Anita Blake Books in Order. Danse Macabre (June 2006) ISBN 0425-20797-8, 15. Anita and Richard form a vampire triumvirate with Jean Claude, accepting the first three "marks". On her forearm, there's a cross burn. Jean Claude wants Anita to accept that she is his human servant; Anita wants Jean Claude to leave her alone. These marks also enhance her necromancy powers, with Jean-Claude remarking in The Laughing Corpse that he could feel her power calling to him at the end of the book. Anita Blake is a series of 32 books written by Laurell K. Hamilton. After some family conflict with Micah's aunt, they go to his mother's house where they meet his siblings, which causes Micah's mother having to explain that she, Rush and Ty (Micah's stepfather) have a similar relationship to Micah, Anita & Nathaniel's relationship. Anita has seen her share of freaky undead fetishes, so this shouldnt bother her. Jason (Dec 4, 2014) ISBN 978-0-515-15607-2, 24. In Blood Noir things get even more complicated when Jason is constantly being mistaken for the son of the towns local celebrity, Governor Summerland. But one hot tub and two incredibly sexy menJean Claude and Asherwill make her feel like the most lusted-after woman aliveor undead. Buffy is in an asylum in the Anita-verse after a traumatizing event. The Harlequin shows Anita and Jean Claude coping with a threat from Vampire Council enforcers. . She doesn't react well to it, and when the Marshal Service suspends both her and Newman for not killing the accused sooner, which would have prevented further loss of life, she takes the news calmly. Anita may have inherited this mutation from Chimera. One way or another the dead multiply. After graduating at the age of 21, Anita was recruited by Bert Vaughn to join Animators, Inc. as a professional zombie animator. They chop off one of Ethan's fingers but he is a were animal he will be able to grow it back. Unfortunately, I think the author thinks Anita is smart, and so I end up reading passages that are meant to show Anita getting some sort of insight, when no. but haven't really read much of her since, as I lost my kindle and don't have any paper copies. Edward arrives the same day, bringing Olaf and Peter (now 16), who we last saw in Obsidian Butterfly. Currently Blake has agreed to marry Jean Claude, Micah, and Nathaniel in a dedication ceremony, but has decided to place the ceremony on hold due to potential problems that some of her various men have with the arrangement. Anita Blake: Which book is it? 1. Anita notes that panweres are very rare. During college she raised a professor who had killed himself-her roommate moved out the next day. Anita and Richard reconcile during the book, with Richard offering to accept Anita's continued involvement with Jean Claude as long as Anita accepts that Richard isn't monogamous either. In Incubus Dreams, Anita assists the police in finding a group of vampires that are killing strippers, eventually going into their condo with a SWAT team. "[5][6] It has dark gold eyes. Anita stands at 5' 3" and has long, curly black hair that has grown to reach her waist. She is no longer certain she wants to keep being a legal assassin, whether they decide that the delay in execution was justified or not. [8], Anita has an inner tiger for each color of tiger. Free Shipping on all orders over $15. Jean Claude has great love for Asher , despite being mostly straight. Its wreaking havoc with her reputation as a hard assto some extent. The books no longer have strong mysterious plots, in fact, they don't have plots at all. She takes along an entourage that includes both Damian and Nathaniel, but not a single wererat. As . Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. She resists changing shape by "giving her beast" to a lycanthrope. Unusually for the novels of this series, a few kisses and briefly getting frisky with the stripper are the most sexual action that is directly displayed in this novel, even if sex and sexual preferences are discussed on several occasions. Hamilton Wraps Readers Up In Stories Of Suspense And Sensuality. Blake's ongoing relationships become even more complicated by the end of Kiss the Dead, as one of the were-tigers she had sex with in Skin Trade (Cynric) has moved to St Louis to be with her, but is still only seventeen at the beginning of the novel. It is revealed why Jason's dad gave him such a hard time growing up. Desperate, Anita calls Edward for assistance. Her mother died in a car accident when Anita was 8, which greatly impacted her throughout her childhood and adult years. They torture Lisandro, but Anita slows them down by touching them. In (Incubus Dreams) she begins to exhibit control over the ardeur but accidentally forms a triumvirate with Damian and Nathaniel. [7] It is small compared to Anita's inner lion. They also are supreme over other shapeshifters. When Jeannette kisses Matthew's cheek in the kiddie table it's the last straw. Anita needs to feed the ardeur, so she goes to Alex, who is her tiger to call and the soon of the Queen of Seattle. I love the Anita Blake series! What happens after the doctors help her get better, that is your challenge. Anita Blake. Warshawski, she has major emotional issues, is frequently the only female in macho situations, and tends to come across as quite prickly and difficult. For most people, summer barbecues are nothing to be afraid of. It also encourages the visiting Master of the City of Chicago, who had been exiled by Belle Morte, to maneuver Anita and Jean Claude into feeding her ardeur on him. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Tough 7. Anita's mother died in a car accident when Anita was eight. Anita Blake, the characters Average 2. Books like the ones about Anita Blake but. This allows her deeper and wider control over the dead, including to some extent even vampires and zombies raised by other people. Jason suggests that J.J. might be able to help Anita with her girl problem, while she helps him with his kinky explanations. She plans to keep sleeping with women, because Jason can't meet that need, just like she can't meet Jason's need for rough sex and bondage. But even her experience isn't enough to stop something that is bent on destroying everythingand everyoneshe loves. Born a necromancer with an inborn need and capability to raise and control zombies, as well as power over other forms of undead, Anita leads a complicated life. 4. It is during Narcissus in Chains that Anita develops the ardeur through Jean-Claude, a rare sexual power that allows Anita to draw power through lust but also initially requires that she has sex multiple times a day to keep it under control. Anita initially exerted little control over her powers, eventually leading her father to request that her maternal grandmother teach Anita how to "turn off" her abilities. Anita discussing this ability in Chapter 47 of Danse Macabre. He wants her under his conditions. The Lunatic Cafe. Youd think Id get used to seeing such a beautiful man and knowing he was mine, but it never grew old, as if his beauty and the fact that he was mine, and I was his, would forever surprise me. The 23rd book in the Anita Blake series looks back on the many events and changes Anita has gone through. One of the Harlequin injured Nicky and Olaf badly but they are able to recuperate. Total: 32 books. The accused doesn't get to see freedom, however, as the probable mastermind behind the whole thing somehow goads him into attacking her assumed partner in crime through the bars of his cell, and Anita and Olaf have to take him out anyway. Anita herself kills Raina, who later inhabits Anita's body, both antagonizing her as well as giving her the ability to heal others. Anita makes considerable progress with her metaphysical problems as she learns that she can partially control the ardeur by drawing power from others' lust and by ensuring that her other desires, such as physical hunger, do not go unfulfilled. While in college, her rich fiancee's parents convinced him to break their engagement because Anita's mother was Mexican. 3. While trying to transport everyone out with a chopper, Ares loses control and starts killing. Her night job, and primary source of income, is the legal profession of re-animating the dead. So, how did a wuss like me end up addicted to a series of books about a vampire executioner and her two lovers - one a vampire, the other a werewolf? Anita majored in preternatural biology in college, earning a bachelor's degree. 2. During this time Anita shows reluctance to let her sexual partners have other lovers, which she eventually eases up on through the course of the series. She doesn't know how she did it or how to stop it, but manages to break the spell by praying to God to help her undo whatever she did. Her mother died when she was a child, and several members of her remaining family treated her abilities as unnatural and wrong, as well as looked down on her mother's Mexican heritage. She has started a complex romantic and sexual relationship with Jean-Claude, Micah and Nathaniel, who she has begun to use as a source of food for the ardeur. The plan is for Dr. Ellen to come to terms with the fact that even if Richard has needs that Ellen cannot meet it doesn't mean that Anita is going to steal Richard from her. However, under Vittorio's influence, Blake is once again forced to have sex with several were-tigers, one of which is a sixteen-year-old boy and virgin. Blake is known to be carrying between four and five strains of the lycanthropy virus. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. In Crimson Death Anita, Nathaniel, and Damian start to fix their triumvirate because Damian believes it's making him sick. What is it that you want, you really want? Will there be any more Anita Blake books? She has a number of notable scars: On her collarbone, there's a large scar where a vampire bit through it. She is arrogant. Anita Meets another 'living' vampire who is a member of the Vegas SWAT team. Since the series is not set in a specific year, Guilty Pleasures is year 0, and the timeline counts from there to either direction. Emotional change doesn't come easily to her, however, and she often struggles with dilemmas for several novels, gaining and losing ground, before overcoming the issue in questionand even then there might be occasional setbacks when some event triggers her the wrong way or she comes across a new point of view she hasn't thought through yet. Skin Trade (2009) ISBN 978-0425-22772-5, 18. The situation escalates into Dr. Ellen storming off and Richard not following. She is nearly killed by another vampire; her "closing" of the marks with Jean-Claude and Richard has weakened her abilities, making her more vulnerable to metaphysical attacks. Given that Anita keeps thinking that Dr. Ellen doesn't quite manage to live up to Anita's standards, and that Dr. Ellen with her more vanilla tastes is inherently incapable of comprehending polyamory or BDSM, this isn't very surprising. She was raised a devout Catholic, but was later forced to become an Episcopalian instead, as the Catholic Church excommunicated all animators. Despite her troubled romantic history, Anita is capable of loving deeply and passionately. Olaf returns in this book as US marshal Otto Jeffries and he hints that he would be willing to try to have a 'normal' romance with Anita, but he still creeps her out to much for anything to really develop. Theyll try to let the Wicked Bitch of the World possess my body, Edward". Anita doesn't really want to do it either, but figures she can sign the warrant over to Edward or Olaf in turn if it comes down to it. Wed broken up after Id seen him eat somebody. Anita Katerine Blake is the heroine and the narrator of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of novels, short stories, and comics by Laurell K. Hamilton. Olaf is taken off to the hospital. At the end of the book we discover that he can use his power to wipe out all of the memories of a person so that they are a blank slate, his victim ends up lying on the floor with a blank look in her eyes. As an animator, her job entails using magical abilities to bring temporary life to dead bodies as zombies in order to e.g. Marmee Noir's attacks on Blake intensify and in Blood Noir she manages to "roll" Blake for two days during a visit to Asheville, North Carolina, during which Marmee Noir forces her to have sex with two were-tigers that were in the area. While Anita is unable to raise the dead thanks to Ireland's wild magic, she is able to use the power of their triumvirate to help her take control of the numerous ghosts of the old gaol where the vampires had been killing people for centuries. Cyrus, who is bigger than Matthew but not necessarily older, has a crush on Jeannette, and resents Matthew for the attention he's getting. Micah will introduce Nathaniel as Micah and Anita's significant other. 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