Review: Bloody Bones

Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Fairies.

Nothing good every happens when fairies get involved, does it? Normally when I see that fairies are getting involved with story lines I back away slowly, because 9 times out of 10 the involvement of fairies is when a series starts to to take a turn for the worst, and things just get silly. So I was happy to see that the addition of Fae characters didn't distract to much from the normal feel of the series. In fact, the way that they had been incorporated worked really well and created some interesting twist that could continue to raise questions later on in the series.

Anita had to go out of town in this book to raise an entire cemetery of 200 year old corpses. There is a slight catch though; all of the graves are unmarked and the ground has been so disturbed that all of the bones are mixed up with no obvious way to tell who's bones are who's. Larry makes a return in this book, so we get to know him a bit better and see him grow as a person and have his morals challenged.

While out of town Anita and Larry are called to aid with a horrific murder, then later a second murder and kidnapping. Things quickly get out of hand, and the local cops stop listing to Anita. Out of options and needing to talk to the local master of the city, Anita calls Jean-Claude for his help. The relation ship between Jean-Claude and Anita develops more in this book because of the situations that they end up finding themselves in. We are also told about Jean-Claude past, and learn where he comes from. This isn't a huge chunk of the book or anything, but does come up in conversation between the characters. I though that was an interesting way of telling us about about a characters past. Most of the time authors like to do it as a kind of flash back and take up a chapter or 2 to tell us information that isn't necessarily vital to the story, just to give a history of a character; so I felt that this was very well done. It told us about his past while managing to stay in the present and keep it relevant to the current plot and events of the book.

We get to see more of Anita's power and abilities. Of course this gets her into all kinds of problematic situations. There's a lot of spilt blood, a few near death experiences, a vampire drunk on blood (this was rather amusing) and a lot of leather.

This was a really good book and worth reading if you've read the ones that come before. (I wouldn't suggest starting the series in the middle as it could be rather confusing)

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