Circus of the Damned

The Laughing Corpse

The Laughing Corpse

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #2

By Laurell K. Hamilton

Storygraph

Goodreads

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Dates Read

Jan 11-12

2025

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Listened Courtesy of PRH Audio

10 hrs 2 min

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Blurb:

Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it.

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Journal Entry

Thoughts:

So we begin again with our femme fatale turning down a job. I'm beginning to sense a trend.

Also we're learning more about Anita's past. Voodoo yeah we don't mess with the shadow man.

So we're almost 4 hours in before we see our sexy vampire 🧛‍♂️ 

So let's count our cases

We have rich guy that Anita refused who is threatening Anita.

Man Eating zombie.

Dead animator friend.

Voodoo Priestess who is also after Anita

What does Jean Claude want exactly?

Ronnie the BFF getting in trouble with Anita but she still just rolls with it.

All this converges into one main bad guy and Anita becoming super Saiyan necromancer queen.

Highlights

Guilty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasures

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1

By Laurell K. Hamilton

Storygraph

Goodreads

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Dates Read

Jan 5 - 10

2025

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Listened Courtesy of PRH Audio

9 hrs 43 min

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Blurb:

Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy...

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Journal Entry

Thoughts:

Though this is technically a re listen I don't think I was in the proper mood the first time I listened to this one. Because I don't remember much I think I'm in the proper mindset now so time to give a re listen

Btw I’m going to date myself but this book was published when I was 3 years man it gives me so much 90s nostalgia. 

This is a long series so i’m going to try and keep up with whose who.

So we have Anita our feme fatale, we jean claude our master vampire who is infatuated with Anita. Of course he could treat all the ladies that way. We have a string of vampire murders. Oh and theirs a strip club.

Review

It very much had a film noir vibe to it. We have Anita, our femme fatale, who is “encouraged” to investigate a string of recent vampire murders. She solves the case with copious amounts of murder mayhem.

One of the things I had a hard time with was that, in the first half of the book, there were several characters introduced that already had a significant history with our femme fatale. So many and so much, that it felt like I was jumping into the 3rd or 4th book in the series not the first. I still enjoyed it and Phillip made me cry.

Highlights

The skirt swished and swayed It had pockets

-The ever important of pocket-

“I can’t believe you bit me, do you know how many germs are in the human mouth”

-priorities-