Dead Ice

The zombie storyline would probably only fill 50 pages of this book. The rest is a rambling account of Anita's many, many sexual partners, which is incredibly difficult to follow. The only reason I finished the book was because I wanted to know who was raising the zombies, which was really just an afterthought for the author. "Oh, by the way, this person did it. Now I'm gong to make love to a rat, 52 tigers, a leopard, and a vampire." Don't waste your time or money.

This is still by far one of my favorite series, but I kind of hate what anita has become. She's easily manipulated now by her "loved ones" and kind of whiney. I've noticed a few times now that Nathaniel has brought up kids. Part of what I liked about this series was how the heroine was fine not fitting society's normal and being happy with herself. I like that she could be a happy adult woman without children. Between the talk of kids and Jade and Asher, I wasn't happy with this book.

Definitely not one of Hamilton's better Anita Blake novels. Much less erotic than preceding novels which should have allowed for attention to be paid to development of characters and the series as a whole, but once again Hamilton disappoints. It is becoming obvious through Hamilton's repetition of sentences, sometimes paragraphs, within a page of one another that Hamilton's heart is no longer in this series.