No one knows the dark desires of the soul better than #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. In Guilty Pleasures, she introduces Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Anita's small, dark, and dangerous. But when the city's most powerful vampire comes to her for help, Anita is faced with her greatest fear--a man capable of arousing in her a hunger strong enough to match his own...
"Why should it surprise me that I was alive?...
There on the right side of my neck was the real thing...
Tiny, diminutive fang marks. Nikolaos [had] contaminated me...
I bet she thought I'd be scared of her. She was right on that.
But I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal."
Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, book one) by Laurell K. Hamilton
Start date: December 18, 2014
End state: December 19, 2014
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Content warning: torture, sexual violence
The only reason the Anita
Blake series made it on my reading challenge list was because of the rumors I
had heard about the books. I’ve always been told that Laurell K. Hamilton
writes graphic, detailed sex scenes. I was embarrassed the first time I ever read
a story in which characters engaged in sexual acts, but I’ve come a long way
since then. Now I love a well described sexual encounter and pray for them in
the novels in which the characters have sizzling chemistry. I put the first
book in the Anita Blake series on my list so I could try out the series to see
if I liked it. After finishing the entire Hush, Hush series within the past
three days (you heard read me right—I binged), I needed a satisfying sex
scene to alleviate all that tension so I turned to the author I heard so much
about. I won’t ruin the Hush, Hush series for anyone but if you’re looking for
something steamy, you might want to look away from young adult novels. Silly me
for not accounting for the target audience in my expectations of the books.
Never again!