Title: [Skin Trade]
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Genre: Vampires
Medium: Hardback
Acquisition: Originally preordered
Date Completed: January 3, 2016
Rating: Bah
In the case of my relationship with Anita Blake, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and after a year of wading through all of her adventures I'm finding her tiresome. The affective saturation of the ongoing Blake narrative has reached a critical mass devolving into an endless parade of anonymous sex and the angst that Blake's puritanical views then inspires. I find Richard loathsome, Anita unreasonable, and the introduction of new lovers tiresome. This novel in particular seems stagnant; Anita realizes the use value of Jason when she agrees to accompany him home to face his physically abusive father who is dying from cancer. This relationship, if actually developed, would have been far more compelling than the shallow circus of doppelgangers and a high-profile wedding.
This novel is a low point for me, but I've already pushed through and started Blood Noir, in which Anita regains her professional status, is not entirely shedding her identity anxiety.
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