Name: Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 16)
ISBN: 9780425222195

Laurell K. Hamilton

Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 16)

Elisa Bieg

In terms of plot-to-sex-scenes ratio, this is probably one of the better Anita Blake novels. You wouldn’t be able to tell unless you read the whole thing, because the bulk of the sex scenes are in the first 1/3 of the book.
Truth be told, if it weren’t for the explicitly sexual content and violence, the plot in this specific book would be fit for a soap opera — family drama, mixed identities, old flames, chaos ensues. It would be so much... 
  gag
, frankly — except for the fact that the emotional range is beyond a cheap soap, and actually adds dimension and relevant backstory to beloved characters (especially Jason, who is my favorite male character in the entire series, BAR NONE.)

Overall, not a bad book. Not a lot of eye rolling, some good dialogue, well-distinguishable secondary and side characters (despite the sheer number of them), which really helps frame the story and give it “credibility”.
That said, it doesn’t quite reach 4 stars for me because a plot revolving around family drama in this series feel a bit like fluff, and I didn’t always feel compelled to keep reading, so 3 1/2 STARS it is. 

I do give it props for the introduction to traditional tiger clan customs, and for introducing Crispin, who promises to become a new favorite.

Ally Wagner

It took me forever to get through this one. I love me some Jason, but dang.

Sasha Mann

Tifani Dyson

Aubrey Hicks

Molly Shipley

Rhiannon Mansfield

Anita is scared. Really scared. And not much gets under the skin of a US Marshall with jurisdiction over preternatural matters, who also happens to be a necromancer. Anita's life is dangerous, and she wouldn't have it any other way, but the scars - both mental and physical - are starting to show. You'd think that her connections with the vampire, werewolf and wereleopard communities would come in handy. However, as her powers grow and develop in new and uncharted ways, her links to both friends and lovers could endanger them all.

Blood Noir

Nichole Ward

Renae

Jamie Adams

'The ardeur made me a sort of living vampire who fed off sex, but with the downsides came some interesting upsides.' Jason is a werewolf. He's one of my best friends and sometimes a lover. And right now he needs me, Anita Blake - not to be a vampire hunter, or a Federal Marshall, or a necromancer, but because his father is dying. I can help make him look like an everyday guy, help him say goodbye to the abusive father he's never loved. How hard can it be? Really, by now, you'd think I'd know better. Because this is the weekend that Marmee Noir, ancient mother of all vampires, picks to make her move. I've got something she wants - and now she's going to take it.