I am currently about three quarters of the way through the twelfth book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series.  That’s right, 12.  So far, there are 20 full length books (with the last one –  Hit List – just being released on June 7)  in the series and I am dreading coming to the end.  It seems that the current book I am on, Incubus Dreams, took a turn for the slutty.  Anita can’t sneeze without slipping and falling onto someone’s penis.  But, that’s what it is… the modern day iteration of trashy romance novels.  Take all those crappy, raunchy paperbacks that your grandma used to read with exotic guys named Esteban, add vampires, werewolves, and violence and you got yourselkf an Anita Blake series.

In any case, these are my Guilty Pleasures (which, conveniently, is a name of one of the earlier books in the series).

Anita Blake’s universe presents with an alternate reality in which the mass population is very well aware of the existence of vampires, werewolves, and other things that go bump in the night.  The government commissions specialtists to kill these big bad beasties when they break the law.  Anita Blake is one of these specialtists and she is so damn good at killing vampires, she is called The Executioner.  She also has the ability to raise the dead as zombies.  They can then be questioned by loved ones are lend insight into mysteries that otherwise would have went to the grave with them.  This is also a commonly known process that is marketed in the way that a private detective may be marketed in the real world.

The Vampire Hunter/Animator also lends her expertise to the police to help solve paranormal-related crimes.  All is well in Anita’s odd life until she begins to fall in love with the monsters and develop some extra powers of her own.  After being bound with the Master Vampire of the City and the “Ulfrich” (read: Werewolf King) in a special power trio they call the triumverate (which always make me think of the triforce), Anita discovers she is more like the monsters than she is like the humans.  She discovers a bloodlust from the werewolf and a plan old lust called the adeur from the vampire.  Sexy results ensue.  She started the series as a prude, barely beyond her virginity, and currently where I am in the series she is banging six different guys per day.  In her defense, they are all insanely hot.  And have fangs or inhuman strength.

I found out while writing this post that Marvel is putting out Anita Blake Graphic Novels based on the books.  Hot.

Start with Book 1 like I did and get hooked to the blood, sex, and vampires

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