Women Authors I've Been Enjoying - Laurell K. Hamilton

Clyde after his visit to the Dentist. Not a happy bunny.

Just a quick one, since I've already posted an earlier Reading update today. But Jo sent me a couple of photos she took after our Clyde came home from the dentist last week. Poor little guy was still doped up and feeling very sorry for himself. Not surprising really as he did have some teeth removed besides getting the others cleaned. Bonnie will be visiting the dentist next week for her turn. Hoping it'll be a quicker process for her, just cleaning. 

So now for my quickie post.

Women Authors Whose Work I've Enjoyed - Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton is author of a number of fantasy series, notably Anita Blake, vampire hunter and Merry Gentry, faerie princess & PI. She has recently started a new series. 

I discovered the Anita Blake series sometime in the mid - late 90's and was hooked immediately. I found the books and concept fascinating. Anita has so many skills and facets. She works for an organization that raises the dead to help in legal cases. She works as a paranormal expert with the St Louis police force, specifically as a vampire hunter and also for other supernatural creatures. Vampires are now legal citizens and Anita finds herself falling in love with the Master of St Louis Jean Claude. She also falls for a local werewolf who works for Jean Claude. The stories were sexy, violent, filled with supernatural creatures, just fascinating. I got many other people hooked on the series, especially my daughter Jennifer (yes, she was probably a bit young for some of the topics covered), so much so that she is finishing a PhD thesis on many of the themes covered in the books.

Anyway, over the past years, I've read quite a few of the Anita Blake books and started the Merry Gentry series. I kind of got frustrated having to wait for new books in each to come out and kind of lost track of both series. I have one Anita Blake book awaiting my attention and Jennifer sent me a copy of the newest book. I'll highlight those to give you an idea of the two.

1. Flirt (Anita Blake #18).

"When Anita meets with prospective client, Tony Bennington, who is desperate for her to reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn't the miracle that he thinks he needs. The thing that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington's grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long."

2. A Terrible Fall of Angels (2021).

"Meet Detective Zaniel Havelock, a man with the special ability to communicate directly with angels. A former trained Angel speaker, he devoted his life to serving both the celestial beings and his fellow humans with his gift, but a terrible betrayal compelled him to leave that life behind. Now he’s a cop who is still working on the side of angels. But where there are angels, there are also demons. There’s no question that there’s evil at work when he’s called in to examine the murder scene of a college student—but is it just the evil that one human being can do to another, or is it something more? When demonic possession is a possibility, even angelic protection can only go so far. The race is on to stop a killer before he finds his next victim, as Zaniel is forced to confront his own very personal demons, and the past he never truly left behind."

There you go. Dare you try Laurell Hamilton's books? Ask my daughter. 😎