Born a necromancer with an inborn need and capability to raise and control zombies, as well as power over other forms of undead, Anita leads a complicated life. Anita learns that everything from Damian's sickness to the vampire infestation in Dublin has been M'Lady's plot to bring Anita close enough to steal from within her the rest of the power of Marmee Noir, as part of it went to M'Lady as well. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno. But now Anita has fallen for the leader of a local pack of werewolves. Ethan takes the adjoining room as their bodyguard, but is unable to prevent an attack from members of the Harlequin that have chosen to follow M'Lady instead of Anita and Jean-Claude. Total: 32 books. Loved Blackberries when he was alive. The irony of Anita Blake lamenting that someone else did not take action is staggering. However, under Vittorio's influence, Blake is once again forced to have sex with several were-tigers, one of which is a sixteen-year-old boy and virgin. She's accomplished, beautiful, and she's crazy about him, too. Anita knows they're coming, but even being forewarned doesn't mean you can win. During the events in First Death she met the vampire hunter Edward and received several of her scars, which includes a cross-shaped brand on her arm. There are 32 books in the anita blake series. Like Kinsey Millhone and V.I. Some more Harlequin come and untie her and give her back some of her weapons. The only part of the series she hasn't appeared in this far is the short story Selling Houses. Anita stands at 5' 3" and has long, curly black hair that has grown to reach her waist. Anita is slender but curvy, and short but muscular. What happens after the doctors help her get better, that is your challenge. Later, when the Pope excommunicated all animators, Anita became an Episcopalian. Jean Claude and Anita determine that the ardeur is "seeking" food: specifically it may have shaped Anita's, Micah's, Nathaniel's, and Damian's personalities to make them more compatible partners for one another. (plus the year each book was published) Home. Youd think Id get used to seeing such a beautiful man and knowing he was mine, but it never grew old, as if his beauty and the fact that he was mine, and I was his, would forever surprise me. It is revealed why Jason's dad gave him such a hard time growing up. A number of complications to her attempts to repair this damage arise: Anita helps Damian to regain his sanity, assuming her position as Damian's master and rendering him the first "vampire servant" in centuries. It's a race against the time and the letter of law, and Olaf, in addition to being his usual creepy but highly capable self, keeps freaking out Anita by being unexpectedly reasonable and accommodating in his attempts at getting to have consensual sex with her. Due to an injury she feeds the ardeur on Nicky and uses it to make him her slave. As the series proceeds Anita is, against her will, forced to become accustomed to dealing with vampires and lycanthropes as more than enemies and getting to know them as persons, and eventually has to bend her attitudes. Domino gets killed in the struggle, and Rodrigo force-feeds Anita some of the blood because he's sadistic and finds it funny at the time. The series takes place in a parallel world in which supernatural characters like vampires and werewolves exist alongside regular humans, with Blake's jobs including the re-animation of the dead as well as the hunting and executing of supernatural creatures (mostly vampires) that have broken the law. In her personal life, Anita wrestles with her jealousy of her lovers taking other lovers, particularly in the case of Jean-Claude and Asher. Walking into a backyard full of cops and their families with wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel both looking gorgeous on her arm wont be easy, even with almost-four-year-old Matthew Vespucci to break the ice. question them for legal purposes. She frequently displays concern for innocents and victims and has a profound sense of loyalty to her friends, even to the point of compromising her ordinary morals. Table of Contents show What order do you read the Anita Blake series? Anita is now so powerful that her attempt to raise a single person threatened to raise every corpse in the cemetery. He's consolidating power in himself and those loyal to him, doing in America what Belle Morte did in Europe when she was at her height of power. The Rex refused because he is married and values being faithful to his wife. 'Im not like you,' I thought. Her relationship with Micah is focused on specifically in the novella of the same name. Anita gains the ability to pass the need to shape-shift onto others, although she can only pass the need on to others of the same strain of lycanthropy. What is it that you want, you really want? I like the main characters professional competence and general badassery, cruelty/gore, that she rescues others more then she need a knight in shining armor and that men are allowed to be sexual objects. Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. Biography. The books, which have sold more than six million copies, star Anita Blakea St. Louis-based vampire hunter, zombie raiser, and supernatural consultant for the police. As the series begins, the Browning Hi-Power is her carry gun of choice, though later in the series she switches to the Browning BDM. The Lunatic Cafe. This earned her early on a nickname among the vampires: The Executioner. Anita breaks his wrist in the hugging, drawing weapons and disarming scene that attends this meeting. Detective Training: Though she rarely uses these skills in later novels, Anita has been involved with many investigations with RPIT and in the later books with the FBI. Emotional change doesn't come easily to her, however, and she often struggles with dilemmas for several novels, gaining and losing ground, before overcoming the issue in questionand even then there might be occasional setbacks when some event triggers her the wrong way or she comes across a new point of view she hasn't thought through yet. Anita Blake is the title and viewpoint character of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton.The series takes place in a parallel world in which supernatural characters like vampires and werewolves exist alongside regular humans, with Blake's jobs including the re-animation of the dead as well as the hunting and executing of supernatural creatures (mostly vampires) that . Anita's . Jean Claude has great love for Asher , despite being mostly straight. One of the witnesses has twin baby daughters and makes Anita hold one of them, and she is surprised to actually enjoy the experience. Cyrus is made to apologize to Becky and Matthew, but doesn't sound very sincere about it. It was formed by the Mother of All Darkness, modeled in style on the Commedia dell'arte and by action on the wild hunt. They also are supreme over other shapeshifters. She was a Chaste Hero who moved among the various vampires, werewolves, fairies, other were-animals, etc. Anita also obtains her apprentice, Larry Kirkland. When Anita was 10, her father remarried after her mother's death to Judith, whom Anita often clashed with over her powers and differences. One of the Harlequin injured Nicky and Olaf badly but they are able to recuperate. Killing a vampire is murder, other than when there are legal exceptions. They torture Lisandro, but Anita slows them down by touching them. She accepts Nathaniel as the fourth of her concurrent lovers, and she and Richard also agree to renew their relationship. In Blood Noir things get even more complicated when Jason is constantly being mistaken for the son of the towns local celebrity, Governor Summerland. I prayed, not for help to do it, but that the power wouldnt corrupt me. During this book Anita also contracts several strains of lycanthropy after being injured by a wereleopard and Chimera, the split personality of Orlando King, a lycanthrope hunter. Shes a U.S. Anita meets other lycanthropes, including Raina and Gabriel, and learns more about werewolf culture while resolving these issues. Anita is surprised that feeding on the Master of the City allows them to feed on his vampires and wereanimals as well. On her back, she has a scar from a stake being used against her, as well as others from various stab wounds. The Killing Dance provides a notable turning point in her relationships with Jean-Claude and Richard. The extended family includes at least Aunt Mattie, Grandmother Blake, Grandmother Flores, great-aunt Katerine, who died when Anita was a small child, great-uncle Otto, who is also dead but Anita still remembers his accent, and great-aunt Gertrude, who reportedly nagged Uncle Otto to death. Jason suggests that J.J. might be able to help Anita with her girl problem, while she helps him with his kinky explanations. Since the series is not set in a specific year, Guilty Pleasures is year 0, and the timeline counts from there to either direction. Another hypothesis is that Chimera had somehow contracted a mutation (or caused the mutation) of the virus allowing all others to coexist without nullifying one another. Anita Blake: The Men in Her Life, Part 1 Easier 3. Despite her often harsh nature, Anita has more positive attributes. The power felt so good, and yet I knew I was draining the life out of two people, evil vampires, but still people. Afterwards, when politicians take over and there isn't more for Anita to do, she goes off to a hotel with Domino to feed the ardeur in order to gain some of her strength back. In (The Killing Dance) Richard has become the Ulfric, or leader, of his pack after killing off the previous leader Marcus. Jean Claude likes to call people by french pet-names. The situation escalates into Dr. Ellen storming off and Richard not following. As an animator, her job entails using magical abilities to bring temporary life to dead bodies as zombies in order to e.g. Anita majored in preternatural biology in college, earning a bachelor's degree. Blake also discovers that her anger and rage have been affecting those around her, specifically Richard. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. First of all: The Aug. 9 season finale is three hours long, the episode's preview footage shows footage of Katie's loved ones arriving at the resort and clips of her talking to Justin. He leaves Anita a note stating he still wants to be with her but does not want to become a Bride like Nicky. Micah (February 2006) ISBN 0-51514087-2, 14. I'll keep writing the books as long as the readers and I are enjoying ourselves." This time, instead of starting to drain Damian to death, she accidentally entices and rolls a local stripper like Jean-Claude can without triggering the ardeur. It's part of her job as a Preternatural U.S. It causes Anita to metaphysically marry a clan tiger, fulfilling the prophecy, and makes her the true heir of the Mother of All Darkness and the Father of the Dawn. Anita has to catch the ones responsible before this tale of two killers meets a violent and bloody end. However, The Harlequin appears not to be following its own rules, so by vampire law Jean-Claude's people can strike back. It has been noted she is noticeably busty as well, with a triple-E cup size. Obsidian Butterfly (2000) ISBN 0-515-13450-3, 10. She is also attacked by rival vampire Alejandro, who too marks her as his Human Servant, which cancels out the control that Jean-Claude previously exerted through the marks he had given her. By the end of the book she has become instrumental in removing the previous Master Vampire of the City Nikolaos from power by killing her and has received two of the four marks necessary to become Jean-Claude's Human Servant. Bernardo is almost choked to death. Jean-Claude's reputation, the American weretiger population, Jason's family values, Keith's impending marriage, and the Governor's bid for president are the least of their problems and just the tip of the metaphysical iceberg. She has horrible nightmares about the ordeal, often transforming into having to kill her own loved ones instead, and for the first time isn't sure the job is worth what it costs her. That drinking in her darkness wouldnt make me evil, too.". This plot element is further complicated in Affliction after Jean Claude and Blake bring Asher back home because they and several others miss him as well as because Asher has been purposely alienating people in each city he visited. Blake's troubles with Marmee Noir continue in Skin Trade in which she is also attacked by the ancient vampire Vittorio, who attempts and fails to make her his Human Servant. Anita and Jean-Claude outmaneuver Belle Morte by taking Asher to their bed in a menage a trois, making Asher their lover and therefore immune to most of Belle Morte's advances. She and Richard help Jean-Claude fend off a challenge from the Vampire Council. She was raised a devout Catholic, but was later forced to become an Episcopalian instead, as the Catholic Church excommunicated all animators. Because she can only give "her" lion to a werelion, this brings her into more contact with the local werelion pride. Tag Archives: Werejaguars About the book, Author. While Anita is unable to raise the dead thanks to Ireland's wild magic, she is able to use the power of their triumvirate to help her take control of the numerous ghosts of the old gaol where the vampires had been killing people for centuries. M'Lady's human servant is killed in the fight as well, and losing both of her servants is finally enough to kill her. However, she accidentally forms another triumvirate with Damien and Nathaniel, this time with her (not Jean-Claude) as the power focus. Anita's mother died in a car accident when Anita was eight. "There's no end planned." Hamilton told I Smell Sheep that she plans to be writing Anita Blake books for a while: "I'd always seen the Anita Blake series as a mystery series which means there's no end planned. So . Anita's relationship with Jean-Claude takes a large step forward in this novel. Anita could 'see' ghosts, and raised her dead pet dog and even road kill, to her, her father and step-mothers dismay. Once upon a time, there was a necromancer / animator /vampire executioner living in The Unmasqued World. At the end of The Harlequin it is discovered that the Harlequin were not operating on official Council orders and were planning to take over Jean-Claude's territory. Olaf is now a werelion and disappeared. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Average 7. The Girl who was Infatuated with Death (2004), Regional Preternatural Investigation Taskforce. Anita travels to New Mexico in Obsidian Butterfly to help Edward, aka Ted Forrester, investigate a series of supernatural attacks. 1993. ", "You don't volunteer for slugfests with vampires, it shortens your life expectency. Her night job, and primary source of income, is the legal profession of re-animating the dead. We also learn that while Anita can usually guess the age of vampires, she cannot get a read on Jean-Claude's age. Bloody Bones sees Anita travel to Branson, Missouri, where she quickly becomes enmeshed in a series of supernatural murders and disappearances. It is also during this novel that Anita is introduced to the serial killer Olaf, who becomes infatuated with Anita becoming his "serial killer sweetie", partially because she fits what he looks for in a victim. Anita is also pulled further into the lycanthrope world when she discovers the local wereleopards need her to take their former leader's place as protector. Anita identifies the murderer, but by that point has sufficiently antagonized Nikolaos and her underlings that she expects to be killed. 1. Marmee Noir's previous plan was to have a powerful were-tiger impregnate Anita and then to possess the unborn infant, but her plans shift to her taking over Anita's body or kill her in the process. Anita and Richard reconcile during the book, with Richard offering to accept Anita's continued involvement with Jean Claude as long as Anita accepts that Richard isn't monogamous either. Guilty Pleasures Anita Blake, Book 1. This makes it impossible for Anita to separate herself from Richard or Jean-Claude, which is further exacerbated when Anita breaks her engagement with Richard and becomes Jean-Claude's lover after watching Richard eat Marcus and transform into his wolf form. Anita's metaphysical ties to Jean-Claude and Richard are strengthened during this battle; she "feels" his beast inside her. Their pursuers reach them at the nearby village, where Damian joins them after escaping on his own and killing M'Lady's animal to call. Anita is not herself a wereleopard, but her affinity with the leopards apparently means that they are her animal to call as if she were herself a master vampire. Anita accepts that her romantic relationship with Richard is finally over. "[5][6] It has dark gold eyes. It is during Narcissus in Chains that Anita develops the ardeur through Jean-Claude, a rare sexual power that allows Anita to draw power through lust but also initially requires that she has sex multiple times a day to keep it under control. Edward doesn't actually kill a Harlequin, Anita does through a psychic link that she accidentally creates while trying to remove a sort of vampire spell that one of the Harlequin has put on her in order to keep track of her and Jean Claude's etc. As this doesn't appear to be an unusual practice among the early licensed vampire hunters, the nickname is possibly also a warning to not underestimate her based on her appearanceeven if she didn't have much vampire hunting experience under her belt at that point. What does Anita fins in her bed the night after Carla leaves. Anita and Micah are happily leading their wereleopards and living together with Nathaniel, who also acts as Anita's pomme de sang, feeding off his lust, although they have not yet had intercourse. During this book she also begins learning magic through the Wiccan Marianne in an attempt to help teach Anita how to close off her metaphysical ties to Richard and Jean-Claude in an attempt to keep from being overwhelmed by them. In The Lunatic Cafe, Edward asks Anita's help in identifying two killers: lycanthropes who starred in a snuff film. This partiality stems from her often violent altercations with vampires and their human servants in the past, as well as her witnessing the death and misery that vampire attacks usually leave behind. Ultimately, Anita realizes that Richard's desire to remain "nice" and "normal" had placed himself and the others in even more danger, and she runs to Jean-Claude, who is at least able to protect himself from danger. Anita manages to resist M'Lady's powers but not the fear her sadism and sheer hatred causes, especially after she has Nathaniel and Damian brought in and promises to ruin their beauty. Does Anita Blake sleep with Nathaniel? 24, Kiss the Dead, Ch. Not only do Jason and Anita find themselves in the middle of a media frenzy, but also they are threatened by the complicated vampire-human love triangle that has been plaguing the Summerland family (and most recently Keith Summerland) for generations. Anita becomes the protector of the local were-leopard pack in (Burnt Offerings), a role that places her alongside the were-leopard Nathaniel, who has expressed a sexual interest in Anita. Anita is a young woman who lives in St. Louis. Her mother died in a car accident when Anita was 8, which greatly impacted her throughout her childhood and adult years. Master of the City of St Louis, Jean-Claude is the lover of Anita Blake. Anita meets and has sex (involuntarily, thanks to Vittorio) for the first time with. The 23rd book in the Anita Blake series looks back on the many events and changes Anita has gone through. 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