She isn't at all happy with this prospect. 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. Anita is a young woman who lives in St. Louis. Its wreaking havoc with her reputation as a hard assto some extent. That part of me that carried the ardeur could see all the way through you to the truth.". Anita is blackmailed by Nikolaos, the vampire Master of the City, into investigating a series of vampire murders. Anita clashed with Judith over her "unladylike" interests, independence, and necromancy, and Judith was always quick to tell others that Anita was only a stepdaughter with a Mexican mother. 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. Anita's growing powers and moral sacrifices cause her to worry that she will eventually become the sort of dangerous villain she fights; as a result, she asks some of her allies, such as Edward, to kill her if she ever shows signs of succumbing to her own darkness. Bloody Bones (1996) ISBN 0-425-20567-3, 6. There are 32 books in the anita blake series. Jean Claude was sired due to his beauty, and so . Narcissus in Chains (2001) ISBN 5-558-61270-3, 11. Another hypothesis is that Chimera had somehow contracted a mutation (or caused the mutation) of the virus allowing all others to coexist without nullifying one another. I remember downloading the first book while on holiday and ended up finishing about the first 4 within a week! 4. 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. Richard becomes the Ulfric, or leader, of his pack. M'Lady's human servant is killed in the fight as well, and losing both of her servants is finally enough to kill her. Despite her often harsh nature, Anita has more positive attributes. Before Alex gets there, Anita forms a bond with a guard named Ethan who says he carries three colors of tiger, but Anita senses he has some gold as well. It was originally a nickname forsomeone with hair or skin that was either very dark (Old English "blaec") or very light(Old English "blac"). 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. 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. 26 (in Obsidian Butterfly and Narcissus in Chains)27 (in Incubus Dreams, Danse Macabre and The Harlequin)30 (in Hit List thru Jason)31 (in Dead Ice) 32 (in Sucker Punch), I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. 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. One way or another the dead multiply. She asks Rafael to infect her with rat strain with the intent to make him her Rat to Call. We let her pour her scary, lonely, insane dark into us, and we drank it down with our comforting hands, our bodies that had made us all home, and the craziness of having too many people, too much going on, but what would we give up, who would we give up, and the answer, in the end, was not a single thing. Id just like to meet one thats human. She's accomplished, beautiful, and she's crazy about him, too. She frequently displays concern for innocents and victims and has a profound sense of loyalty to her friends, even to the point of compromising her ordinary morals. Total: 32 books. Shes a U.S. The Girl who was Infatuated with Death (2004), Regional Preternatural Investigation Taskforce. Anita begins to doubt her feelings towards Jason. Laurell K. Hamilton. Marshal, after all. She's a vampire hunter, a necromancer, and a lycanthrope. The creation of such a link is four-step process; steps are called marks and its understood that a Master Vampire "gives" the marks to subjugate human or wereanimal. Even Edward comes to the conclusion that if they don't kill Olaf soon, Anita might need to suck it up and actually sleep with him, and that that might not be the worst idea ever, after all. Even after becoming a licensed vampire executioner, Anita considers herself first and foremost an animator. And when she does, shes faced with something shes never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of peoplekids, grandparents, soccer momsall recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. I prayed, not for help to do it, but that the power wouldnt corrupt me. Her father remarried a few years after, and had a son, Josh. The evidence that Anita may become a shape-shifter is growing; whether she will be wolf, lion, leopard, or something else is unknown. There is little description of it as it hides within her and has small beady black eyes. She could tell the rage came from a vampire who could do that. 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. 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. Anita's inner werewolf is "pale, white and cream" with "dark markings like a saddle across its back and head. She is trained in judo and kenpo, and knows how to use several weapons, including blades, but is most proficient with guns. This allows her deeper and wider control over the dead, including to some extent even vampires and zombies raised by other people. Kiss the Dead - When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to U.S. Anita's faith in God, and herself as a Christian, is reaffirmed when she faces down a demon with prayer and Bible recitation. Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter is a series of urban fantasy novels, short stories, and comic books by Laurell K. Hamilton. 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. 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. The Killing Dance provides a notable turning point in her relationships with Jean-Claude and Richard. Blake also discovers that her anger and rage have been affecting those around her, specifically Richard. Walking into a backyard full of cops and their families with wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel both looking gorgeous on her arm wont be easy, even with almost-four-year-old Matthew Vespucci to break the ice. Long-dead characters and plot points are, if not literally resurrected, at least mentally . So it takes a special kind of courage to attend a barbecue thrown by her friend Sergeant Zerbrowski. During a period of hospitalization at the end of the novella Micah, Anita's blood test revealed that whilst she is not a lycanthrope, she is a carrier of at least four, possibly five, types of the lycanthropy virus: wolf, leopard, lion (as a result of her violent contact with the panwere Chimera), and two so far unidentified but potentially tiger (this may be as a reaction to the machinations of the Mother of All Darkness), snake (as a result of being bitten by Chimera in his weresnake form), or lamia (as a result of the attack by Melanie). Edward begins to think that the killers are a trick to try and lure Anita away from Jean-Claude and all his bodyguards, so that the Mother of all Darkness can either have her kidnapped try and takeover her body, or kill her. Anita Blake is a master of her craft. In particular, Anita has never fully recovered from her mother's death. This method of thinking, as of The Harlequin, has resulted in the injection of a rare feline lycanthropy to combat a recent infection due to attack. Wed broken up after Id seen him eat somebody. 1. The books, which have sold more than six million copies, star Anita Blakea St. Louis-based vampire hunter, zombie raiser, and supernatural consultant for the police. The extended family includes at least Aunt Mattie, Grandmother Blake, Grandmother Flores, great-aunt Katerine, who died when Anita was a small child, great-uncle Otto, who is also dead but Anita still remembers his accent, and great-aunt Gertrude, who reportedly nagged Uncle Otto to death. Micah will introduce Nathaniel as Micah and Anita's significant other. . It's a race against the time and the letter of law, and Olaf, in addition to being his usual creepy but highly capable self, keeps freaking out Anita by being unexpectedly reasonable and accommodating in his attempts at getting to have consensual sex with her. 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. They are being liberated. Marmee Noir's previous plan was to have a powerful were-tiger impregnate Anita and then to possess the unborn infant, but her plans shift to her taking over Anita's body or kill her in the process. After making arrangements Micah decides he needs to take Nathaniel along. 24, Kiss the Dead, Ch. And while he has . Anita Blake is the title and viewpoint character of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton.The series takes place in a parallel world in which supernatural characters like vampires and werewolves exist alongside regular humans, with Blake's jobs including the re-animation of the dead as well as the hunting and executing of supernatural creatures (mostly vampires) that . Unlike most animators, Anita is also held in retainer as a preternatural consultant for the Regional Preternatural Investigation Taskforce, which handles crimes involving magic, vampires, lycanthropes, and other preternatural creatures. 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. Like Spenser and Matthew Scudder she plays knight errant, championing vulnerable characters who ask for her help. While trying to transport everyone out with a chopper, Ares loses control and starts killing. "There's no end planned." Hamilton told I . Her mother died in a car accident when Anita was 8, which greatly impacted her throughout her childhood and adult years. However, she is not a lycanthrope despite being a carrier. Biography. Anita is having her own relationship growing pains with her only female lover ever, Jade. 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. Cyrus attacks Matthew over the table, but Zerbrowski's son, Greg, cools off the situation by dumping a glassful of ice water on the scuffling boys. As . Anita Blake: Which book is it? As the series proceeds Anita is, against her will, forced to become accustomed to dealing with vampires and lycanthropes as more than enemies and getting to know them as persons, and eventually has to bend her attitudes. Deciding in the end that Jean Claude is the lesser of the two evils, she and Edward help defeat Mr Oliver. Anita and Edward know everything and nothing that will help catch the killers. She also discovers that her ardeur is seeking out people powerful enough to be "food" and has the potential to shape personalities to be more compatible relationship-wise. They not only succeed, but determine that The Harlequin members were planning to take over Jean-Claude's territory and not operating on official Council orders. 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. Because she can only give "her" lion to a werelion, this brings her into more contact with the local werelion pride. ("The Harlequin had been the law of the vampire council in Europe for thousands of years, but their original job had been as bodyguards to their Dark Queen. Her role as Larry's mentor is also further developed and she is forced to relive the trauma of her mother's death. The references of time novel-to-novel (measured in weeks/months) and the references to years within the story begin to contradict each other around the events of Micah. 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. And when she does, she's faced with something she's never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of peoplekids, grandparents, soccer momsall recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. Love is hard. Will there be any more Anita Blake books? 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. 33 /? By the end of the book Anita is convinced that she needs to return to her relationships with Jean-Claude and Richard. Donna does not know Edward is an assassin. They learn that the source behind the rotting zombies is Morte D'Amour, who was presumed dead but took some of Marmee Noire's power into him, her necromancy. 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 keeps them alive by feeding on first Rafael (and through him, all the wererats in the city); Belle Morte; and later, all the swanmanes in the US via Donovan. As an animator, her job entails using magical abilities to bring temporary life to dead bodies as zombies in order to e.g. Bernardo, Anita, Edward go to meet Olaf. In terms of her character and mental state, Anita displays signs of sadism and sociopathy in her dealings with vampires. What happened to Jason in the Anita Blake series? Series. Two weeks later she is kidnapped by two werelions named Jacob and Nicky, members of a pride hired by Tony Bennington to force her into raising his wife by threatening to kill Micah, Jason and Nathaniel. Anita Blake: Master Vampires & Lycanthropes Average 5. A human which received all four marks is a Human Servant to Master Vampire; a wereanimal (or siren, or ghost, or selkie, etc.) In Sucker Punch, Anita faces a new situation when Marshal Newman calls her in to his new hometown in the middle of nowhere, to assist with a warrant where it doesn't seem likely that the only wereanimal within a hundred miles has committed the crime he's locked up for. But even her experience isn't enough to stop something that is bent on destroying everythingand everyoneshe loves. Books like the ones about Anita Blake but. She is able to resist the mental influence of, Triumvirate Member: Anita is a member of a "triumvirate" with Jean-Claude and her additional love interest, Vampire Powers: The combination of her necromancy and her membership in the triumvirate has caused Anita to develop a series of powers formerly seen only in Vampires, which includes the, Vampire Marks: In the Anita Blake world Master Vampires can create mystic link with a human or with an animal to call. Anita's . She is very direct and flippant in her speech, but is said to be highly competent in the professions she is involved in. We also learn that while Anita can usually guess the age of vampires, she cannot get a read on Jean-Claude's age. J.J. is enthusiastically bisexual, with an emphasis on the female side of things. A strong protagonist in the series, Anita is very direct and can come across as rude, and is considered highly competent in the professions she is involved in. 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