Blue Moon (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 8)
by Laurell K. Hamilton
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Author: Laurell K. HamiltonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-09-24
ISBN: 0515134457
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Jove
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- ISBN13: 9780515134452
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Book Reviews of Blue Moon (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 8)
Book Review: A Tangled Tale in Tennessee
Summary: 5 Stars
Blue Moon (1998) is the eighth fantasy novel in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, following Burnt Offerings. In the previous volume, Anita met the Vampire Council -- or some of them -- and they met Anita. They suffered more than she.
Padma got squeezed and gave up his son. Yvette and Warrick were burned. Sylvie got Fernando and Liv, but saved a souvenir or two.
In this novel, Anita Blake is a human and a vampire hunter. She carries out death orders on vampires and is known in vampire circles as the Executioner. Nonetheless, she is sleeping with the Master of the City in the Saint Louis area and is his human servant. She is also the Lupa of the local werewolf pack, even though she is human.
Richard Zeeman is a werewolf and the Ulfric of the local pack. His day job is a junior high school science teacher. He is still trying to keep his shapechanging a secret from his mother and the school board.
Jean-Claude is a vampire and the Master of Saint Louis. Before he met Anita, he was merely one of the kiss. Now he is the Master of the City and a very powerful vampire. The source of his power derives mostly from his pact with Anita and Richard.
In this story, Daniel Zeeman -- Richard's brother -- calls Anita at three in the morning to tell her that Richard is in a Tennessee jail on charges of rape. Since he is innocent, Richard is refusing to talk to a lawyer. He is also refusing to see his mother and brother.
The problem comes from the blue moon -- a second full moon in the month -- that will cause him to turn to Were in the jail cell unless he gets out earlier. He has five day to get out of jail or his characteristic stubbornness is going to make headlines, such as Teacher Goes Were.
Anita throws some clothes into a bag and makes some phone calls. She arranges for a Tennessee lawyer to take the case. Then she catches a plane to Myerton.
Unfortunately, there are a few hitches to her plan of going to the jail and bailing out Richard. The local vampire master believes that the whole affair is a setup to kill him and take over his territory. Anita insists of going anyway, but Jean-Claude convinces her to take some backup. So she steps off the plane in Myerton with a werewolf, three wereleopards and two coffins, containing the vampires Asher and Damian.
This tale involves crooked cops, another werewolf pack, and the local vampires. Anita tries to be diplomatic, but reverts to straight violence as needed. Then the state police get into the act.
Somehow I missed reading this novel when it first came out. The next in the series -- Obsidian Butterfly -- mentioned Anita taking lessons from Marianne, but I didn't remember reading about her in the prior books. Now I regret not learning about Marianne much earlier.
This story takes Anita away from her home grounds for the first time. She will later travel elsewhere as a federal marshal, but she was not even licensed in Tennessee at the time. She faces death by various enemies, but she also learns more about herself. Read and enjoy!
Highly recommended for Hamilton fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of preternatural creatures, Were customs, and tangled romance.
-Arthur W. Jordin
Summary of Blue Moon (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 8)
The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter backlist lights up the night.
In her eighth adventure, Anita Blake can't turn her back on a former lover during the full moon. Especially since he's behind bars-and he's a werewolf...
In her eighth adventure, Anita Blake can't turn her back on a former lover during the full moon. Especially since he's behind bars-and he's a werewolf...
Anita Blake makes a living raising the dead. She also executes rogue vampires and villains among the local were-folk. Marks bind her to Jean-Claude, the Master vampire of St. Louis and her lover, and to her ex-fiancé, a powerful werewolf who heads up the local pack. Anita shares some of their magic, and her own power over the dead keeps growing. But so does the body count and the situations that force Anita to bend or break her own rules.
In Blue Moon, Anita's ex Richard is jailed in Tennessee, accused of rape. When Anita arrives with a lawyer and an entourage of vampires and 'weres' supplied by Jean-Claude, it's clear that something is rotten in Myerton. The local cops are corrupt, and the trolls Richard was studying are threatened. But if she sticks around to investigate, the local Master vampire will attack her and her friends. The local werewolf clan isn't rushing to welcome her either, and her self-control is going to the, um, wolves.
Blue Moon is the eighth book in Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series; newcomers should start with earlier books. The protagonists' development and their relationships to each other and to the large cast of continuing secondary characters are what make these books so compelling. Be warned--there's steamy sex and graphic violence here, though Anita does reflect on her moral position. But if dark urban fantasy featuring those who hunt the night appeals, pounce on this series. --Nona Vero
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