Skin Trade
By: Laurell K Hamilton
560 Pages
Anita Blake Series (Book 17)
Skin Trade is the 17th Book in the Anita Blake series. This book places Anita in Las Vegas to battle a vampire beasty that has killed a preternatural SWAT team and sent the head of one of the fallen SWAT members to Anita personally. There is not much involvement from many of the stars of the Anita series, which is almost refreshing, but also a little disappointing all at the same time. The latest installment did not have as much risque sections as some of the later books in the Anita Blake series has included. Skin Trade has more of the mystery and suspense that first endeared me to the series a few years ago and lacks the scene after scene of sexual situations that Anita just happens to be placed in and must "endure" to survive.
Good: Brings back the "old" Anita Blake feel and removes many of the erotic situations that were distracting in the previous few installments of the series
Bad: Every page found Anita trying to analyze whether certain actions would be considered weak or submissive to those around her...I think she is thinking too hard sometimes about whether she seems weak around people instead of impressing people with here knowledge of all thing preternatural and finding out where the vampire beasty is and what he wants with Anita.
Book 17 has hints of the old Anita Blake in it and I hope that Laurell K Hamilton is getting back to her roots that the first books in this series embraced and made me fall in love with all of the characters and plots.
