Review: Danse Macabre

Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

There's a vampire dance company in town and Jean-Claude is throwing a big event inviting other Masters of Cities, with the thinking that it will make the travelling through territories easier or the dance troop. But of course with that many masters together it was never going to go smoothly.

This is really a book of character development. There really is very little plot in this book, and that may not be a bad thing. There are a lot of important developments between the characters in this book and if there was anymore plot, it would have just got in the way.

Anita may be pregnant. This really acts as a spring board for Anita to focus on how she really feels about each of the men in her life and how much she depends on them. It also reveals how the guys feel about Anita, and what everyone is willing to do and give up if there is going to be a baby. as well as this it prompts Nathaniel to reveal more about his past before he met Anita. I think until reading this, I had sort of seen Nathaniel as very young and still in need of a parental figure. I still felt this way regardless of the fact that we know he's 20 and that he's a stripper; there just always seemed to be an air of something that needed protecting and something almost childlike. This book really makes you realise he is most certainly not a child and is, in someways, probably more of a grown up than Anita is. As well as discovering more about Nathaniel, we learn how much Richard still wants Anita; still wants his Happily Ever After. I'm waiting for the book where Richard really opens his eyes and excepts life for what it is, when he wakes up and stops kidding himself; that would be a real interesting read.

We also discover, via shared memories, more about Jean-Claude. There are some interesting developments between Anita and Asher. There are some new powers pretty much all round too. Put all this together with the visiting vampires and having to make a public appearance and you're in for a really good book.

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