REVIEW (laughing corpse)

The older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it.

      The laughing Corpse

    Prod dets

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, series, book 2

Pub: 1994, Headline

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 340 pp w/ 40 chapters

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

After a few centuries, the only death ‘big enough’ is a human sacrifice. I know because I’m an animator. My name is Anita Blake.

Working for Animators, Inc. is just a job—like selling insurance. But all the money in the world wasn’t enough for me to take on the particular job Harold Gaynor was offering.

Somebody else did, though—a rouge animator. Now he’s not just raising the dead... he’s raising Hell. And it’s up to me to stop it.

     my Thoughts (review)

Having put Jean-Claude on his thrown as Master of the City, Anita has been doing everything she can to not talk to him. Until she needs his help in finding someone that will hopefully point them into the direction of who set the flesh eating zombie lose.

But all’s not good when it comes to what the person who paid for that zombie and Anita finds out the hard way that Voodoo isn’t where she needs to be though it could help her out greatly. The man of the hour wants Anita to raise the zombie she’s refused to do, so in come a voodoo witch and a little magic that makes Anita do what they want—to an extent. What they don’t realise is that Anita is a necromancer and the dead are her playthings.

Yeah, okay, so it may be a little early for me to say that, but this is the book that she gets told that she’s a necromancer. She saves the day (obviously, hell, it’d kinda suck for a second book if she lost) and all that, along with a trip out with Jean-Claude and a long and bloody road to freedom.

There is some other stuff to that happens throughout the book, they chase a flesh-eating zombie and....well, read and you shall see. I found this one interesting, and high on action though I can’t remember if I truly enjoyed it all those years ago, but I’m guessing it didn’t suck or I wouldn’t have continued the series. It’s also a book that I only ever read again for things like this. it wasn’t information that you needed though it helped greatly with the rest of the books if you have what she is, but then again, Hamilton retell you it all anyway, so it never matters when you pick up the series, all the info is there and waiting for you, though it does help to follow the story, especially in the later books.

Series

Guilty Pleasures, [tb], Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Curse, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Obsidian Butterfly, Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Micah, Danse Macabre, The Harlequin, Blood Noir, Skin Trade, Flirt, Bullet, Hit List, Kiss the Dead,

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