Review: Skin Trade

Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Vittorio is back and cause havoc, this time in Las Vegas. He invites Anita out to Sin City with a fairly standard invite...He sends Anita the Vegas Executioner's head to her office in a box....Like you do. Edward, Olaf and Bernardo are back as back up this time while Anita is away from Jean-Claude. this also means that most of the other usual characters are also not present. There is no Micah, Nathaniel or Richard. Jason makes a brief appearance at the start, we get one phone conversation with Jean-Claude. Wicked, Truth and Haven are sent to Vegas by Jean-Claude, so that's interesting.

We meet the Vegas SWAT team, Anita has some fun here. There are even more weretiger issues, old and new, dead SWAT team members, more dead strippers, lots of murder, lots of blood and lots and lots of Olaf creeping Anita out. This book is very plot related mainly for the fact that she's not in St Lois with all of her other men to distract her. This book also reveals more of the Mother Of All Darkness's plans with Anita and that shockingly Vittorio helps shed some light on things. The big question is where does that leave Anita and the rest of the gang back in St Lois in future books.

I enjoyed this book. I know some people have fallen out of love with this series for various reasons; but at the end of the day I think that they make great light reading and pass the time fairly well and they entertain me. If you're the kind of person that must have a book that is plot driven then you won't make it this far in the series. If you want quick, leave your brain at the front cover kind of read, then these are great. If you want a literary masterpiece/ future classic then look somewhere else. I keep reading this series because I love the characters...If someone finds a wereleopard that can cook send then my way :P

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