Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K Hamilton

Book 10 in the Anita Blake series is a really good read. Lots of lycanthropes, lots of violence, sprinkled with a bit of mystery and a bit of romance.

Anita, in her role as Nimir-ra(were-leopard queen), finds herself running to the rescue of a few of her pard members. In the process of saving them, she is severely injured and may quiet possibly become the actual Nimir-ra, and not just the human who is playing temp. There's drama between the leopards and the wolves over Anita possibly becoming an actual were-leopard and therefore permanently removing her from the role as lupa(wolf queen). Because, as everyone knows, 2 dominates from different "species" can not be mates. We meet a bunch of new were's and get to see a lot of cool metaphysics. Also, lots of lycanthrope leaders are going missing and no one knows why, but they seek Anita for help, as usual. And that leads me to saying that this book has quiet possibly the worst villain I have ever encountered. He totally creeps me out.

Without the rest of the series, this book will be confusing. So read the others first.

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