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A review by mollymortensen
The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton
3.0
Trigger Warning: Attempted rape.
I hate the love triangle. (I hate all love triangles but this one was particularly annoying/ horrible.) I don't particularly like either guy. Richard was so stupidly moral and got nastier to Anita as the book progressed.
I know Jean Claude's whole shtick is his mysteriousness, but we really need to get to know the guy. We finally get a tiny hint of his personality, but it's still mostly just lust between him and Anita.
There's no real murder mystery. The mystery is who wants Anita dead, and why. (About halfway through the police have Anita give her opinion on a murdered man but she doesn't actually help them or investigate…)
The plot starts off okay but then it goes off the rails. Edward has Anita hide out with Jean Claude (and Richard) while he finds out who paid for the hit on her. Then we have a whole bunch of relationship drama and some cool magical powers stuff, but no real plot. Then bang we have a dramatic action scene and the end.
I liked several of the new characters. Obviously not Sabin, he was disgusting, but I liked the other necromancer Dominic. It would be cool for Anita to get magic lessons. And there's a couple of new henchmen, a vamp named Liz and werewolf named Cassandra, and a policeman witch Tammy. (Who I liked, but that means the police won't need Anita as much so I don't know how I feel about that.)
I can see why people say this is the book where it starts to go downhill and why others still really liked this one. It's not bad. To me it's the last of the good ones. (If not as good as the first five.)
There's a sex scene for the first time in this series, and an attempted rape. (both of which I skipped.)
And I'm told there's multiple rapes in the next book, so I'm done.
I hate the love triangle. (I hate all love triangles but this one was particularly annoying/ horrible.) I don't particularly like either guy. Richard was so stupidly moral and got nastier to Anita as the book progressed.
I know Jean Claude's whole shtick is his mysteriousness, but we really need to get to know the guy. We finally get a tiny hint of his personality, but it's still mostly just lust between him and Anita.
There's no real murder mystery. The mystery is who wants Anita dead, and why. (About halfway through the police have Anita give her opinion on a murdered man but she doesn't actually help them or investigate…)
The plot starts off okay but then it goes off the rails. Edward has Anita hide out with Jean Claude (and Richard) while he finds out who paid for the hit on her. Then we have a whole bunch of relationship drama and some cool magical powers stuff, but no real plot. Then bang we have a dramatic action scene and the end.
I liked several of the new characters. Obviously not Sabin, he was disgusting, but I liked the other necromancer Dominic. It would be cool for Anita to get magic lessons. And there's a couple of new henchmen, a vamp named Liz and werewolf named Cassandra, and a policeman witch Tammy. (Who I liked, but that means the police won't need Anita as much so I don't know how I feel about that.)
I can see why people say this is the book where it starts to go downhill and why others still really liked this one. It's not bad. To me it's the last of the good ones. (If not as good as the first five.)
There's a sex scene for the first time in this series, and an attempted rape. (both of which I skipped.)
And I'm told there's multiple rapes in the next book, so I'm done.