And while Asher brings his characteristic splash of drama, things quickly progress to sex. This time around, there was no shaky laughter or condom packets being traced along skin, their love making has progressed to tops and bottoms and threesomes with Asher. Anita and Jean Claude in the tub reminds me so much of their first, visceral scene together in THE KILLING DANCE (which I think I read a million times). Luckily, BEAUTY's shortness is an asset, that moment comes and goes. So when BEAUTY opens with Anita wondering how she could have won someone as gorgeous as Jean Claude, I was worried. For someone infinitely desirable, I've long since lost patience with Anita's self-esteem issues.

When I picked up BEAUTY I expected something along the lines of FLIRT, a vignette where Anita learns something new regarding the title. I've heard HIT LIST is a return to police work, but I'm not entirely convinced that I couldn't just re-read OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY and get the same content (Anita faces off with local cop that thinks she's either A. Anita's world has become largely internal, both in terms of her repetitive monologues explaining the world according to Anita and the disappearance of the mundane world. Once the subject of many, many re-reads, the world of Anita and her boys have fallen by the wayside as of late (though Merry Gentry still gets re-reads every few years). It's been a long time since Anita and I have been on the same page. Includes an excerpt of Kiss the Dead, the new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel.Short and sweet-ish. But one hot tub and two incredibly sexy men-Jean Claude and Asher-will make her feel like the most lusted-after woman alive…or undead. With a vampire like Jean Claude around, it’s far too easy for Anita Blake to doubt her own appearance-and the hold it has on those who love her.

You’d think I’d 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. Hamilton’s bestselling novel, Kiss the Dead. The steamy outtake that takes readers even further into Laurell K.

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