Review: Burnt Offerings

Burnt Offerings by Laurell K. Hamilton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Wow...There was a lot going on in this book.

So the blurb of this book talks about an arsonist burning down vampire owned businesses and it being down to Anita to stop the person that is doing it. Are there vampire businesses being burned down? Yes. Is it Arson? Yes. Is Anita called to help on the case? Yes. So what's the problem? you ask. I wouldn't go as far as to call it a problem but this, in my opinion really isn't central to 85% - 90% of the book. I would say a more accurate description would be: The vampire council is in town and causing havoc. Of course some cool writer person would say that in a lot more words, and make it sound all fancy if it was going to be the blurb for a book (obviously I'm not a cool writer person). The main focuses are definitely the fact that the vampire council is in town and what it means for the local vampires, lycanthropes and Anita; although the arson attacks are linked.

There are a whole host of new characters in this book. If you thought we had seen evil vampire so far this series, then think again as the bar has most definitely been raised. There are some new lycanthropes - mainly in the form of leopards/panthers. Some of these characters probably won't return because of either a) Their dead or b) There's not really anywhere for the character to go; not to say that they can't come back a lot further down the line. Some of the new lycanthrope characters could be very funny and could go a long way, so I look forward to seeing how they develop in later books. We also see a different side of Richard, not all of it good - lets just say he'snot so sweet when he's jealous.

Anita starts to gain more power through the bond between Jean-Claude, Richard and herself. This ends up effecting the way she is viewed within the pack, and as usual gets herself in more situations that she doesn't fully understand.

Overall this was a really good book. I think it's fair to say that the books are improving as the series goes along; you think you have just finished one really good book then the next one in the series somehow manages to top it. There was a lot of content to take in, and yet it wasn't so much that you started to loose track of things. I would recommend this book provided that you had read all of the books that came before it in the series.



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