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This is always a hard series to review. Where do you start? OK. Anita Blake lives in St. Louis. She is a licensed Vampire Killer and raises Zombies from the grave for various purposes, such as to find out if the dead person committed suicide or died in an accident so as to determine if the insurance company has to pay the widow or can renege. She has also been made a Federal Marshall because there aren't too many people around who can deal with preternatural occurrences, or despite the fact that the US government declared vampires citizens, who even want to believe. Anita is called in to the scene of a supernatural killing. Actually, there appears to be a werewolf serial killer on the loose. Since she has been estranged from her werewolf lover, Richard, since her powers as a necromancer have started to grow, she didn't know that a strange shape shifter had invaded her territory. While all this is going on, Anita's vampire lover, Jean-Claude, has summoned her to the secret chambers beneath GUILTY PLEASURES. Apparently, there is a crisis. Belle-Morte, Jean-Claude's superior, has sent Musette to St. Louis a month early. This is a severe breach of etiquette, but Jean-C laude, Asher, who had been Jean-Claude's lover many years before, and Anita must observe the rules and be civil. All of this is fine, until the Mother of all Vampires, using Musette as a surrogate though Belle-Morte, starts stirring, And then we get the mother of all psychic battles as Anita fights to save her friends, vampire and shape-shifter alike. As has been common in the last few books, Anita sleeps with several of the sexy guys who aren't totally human, and that's what prevents this series from deteriorating into pornography. None of her lovers are human. And perhaps no longer is she completely human. Oh yes, she is still a good Catholic girl and prayer does save her in some situations. This is another long running series. CERULEAN SINS is the 11th book, and is much better than NARCISSUS IN CHAINS, the 10th in the series. However, if you are not familiar with these books, start with GUILTY PLEASURES, go on to THE LAUGHING CORPSE and CIRCUS OF THE DAMNED. You'll be hooked.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, April 2003
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