I’ve been hearing a lot of reactions to Laurell K Hamilton’s latest Anita Blake novel; and, I don’t know about you guys, but I thought Skin Trade was freaking fabulous.

When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City’s local authorities what they’re dealing with. Only it’s worse than she thought. Ten officers and one executioner have been slain—paranormal style. Anita heads to Vegas, where’s she’s joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward. It’s a good thing he always has her back, because when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses “tiger” too strongly to ignore it. The weretigers are very powerful in Las Vegas, which means the odds of her rubbing someone important the wrong way just got a lot higher.

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I just finished the latest Meredith Gentry novel by Laurell K. Hamilton and I have to wonder…is Swallowing Darkness the end?

At the end of Lick of Frost, we found out that Meredith was pregnant with twins by six of her guards.  Then she gets kidnapped by Taranis, the King of Light and Illusion or the Seelie King, and is raped.  Swallowing Darkness is picking up where Lick of Frost had ended.  Meredith is in the hospital, plotting ways of punishing Taranis for what he has done.  However, through all of this, she has to mourn the lost of her Killing Frost.  She’s not taking it too kindly, but she’s living with what she has.

Hamilton is one author who has no problem killing off characters and she shows it in Swallowing Darkness.  The …

Tonight I took a drive to Ann Arbor and saw Laurell K Hamilton. My husband, Ian and I all went down there and waited for three hours so she would sign my two books. You heard right, she is so popular, that they started handing out wrist bands at 9am this morning and they alternated colors instead of doing numbers. Ever 50 bands, they changed colors. When I got there at 5pm (she was due to start at 6pm), they were on their third set of colors and I heard there was a total of 5 colors given out. That means there were over 250 people who drove out in rainy weather (did I mention we were getting hit with rain all afternoon and evening), who took the time to wait in line, …

I had to post this. I’ve been a fan of Penny Arcade for awhile, but some of their gamer related strips always threw me, but I can so relate to today’s comic!!! I swear to god, this is how I bought her novels. I bought the first one while at Union Station in Washington DC waiting for a train and a week later when I was back to waiting for another train, I bought as many as I could get my hands on.

The other part that is amusing, it seems that while Tycho was podcasting about this post, LK Hamilton was listening to him and started blogging about the comic at the same time.

One of my favorite authors, Laurell K Hamilton’s newest novel, Blood Noir, is out and it focuses on a favorite character of mine. Personally, I think it’s about time that we get to learn more about Jason, but I think we ended up learning more than we wanted to.

A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blake’s werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean-Claude’s reign and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen’s new rise to power.

My first thought when I saw the novel was “what was with the cover”. It seems so tame compared to the previous 15 novels, that I wasn’t sure what to think about it. It still doesn’t make sense to me, but I can live with that. I …