National Blog Posting Month # 4: The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton

I am going to continue today with my mentions of the Anita Blake, vampire hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton. The Lunatic Cafe is the 4th book in the series - and it wasn't a favorite.

However, Anita Blake is a definite favorite of mine. But Anita! You really disappointed me in this one. The story and the storyline was, as usual, great. Anita has to deal with some horrible murders with a distict supernatural touch, and from the beginning it becomes clear, that this book is not so much about vampires as it is about shapeshifters. There is something wrong about these murders, apart from the supernatural aura about them. Someone or something is on the loose, and pretty soon, Anita is too close on the trail for comfort. And on the same time, she is having major second thoughts about her boyfriend Richard. In the last book, she found out that he was a shapeshifter, and in this book, she is trying to deal with that fact. A reviewer at Amazon wrote some time ago about Richard and the difficulties thjs reader had accepting him as Anita's boyfriend. I agree. I find Richard disgusting, no matter how beautiful he is supposed to be when not being a werewolf. This is why I can 'only' give this Anita Blake book a 3 star-rating. But, apart from this, Lunatic Cafe is a light, funny, scary and good read.

This is my 4th NaBloPoMo-post. See my page here. And don't forget to check out the Literary Escapism blog for a lot more info on Anita Blake and other supernatural literary heroes.