Jason (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #23)

by Laurell K. Hamilton

[Cocktails and Books]

Jason is the twenty-third book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton. While this book is part of a series, it can be read and enjoyed as a standalone novel.

Anita Blake is a woman with many roles and jobs in life. She does her best to protect those who need her help. She is a Necromancer and a Vampire hunter. She is anomaly even in her own world. She carries between four or five different strains of lycanthropy virus in a world where no one can carry more than one strain. She is a direct woman with an attitude that has a big heart, which does not like to acknowledge.

Jason Schuyler is one of Anita Blake’s best friends and a stripper at Guilty Pleasures as well as Jean-Claude’s pomme de sang. He is also a wolf shifter. Jason is the one person in Anita’s life that can tell her the truth and she will not get angry with him. Jason has a steady girlfriend, J.J., which he has come to an agreement with. However, she does not understand his need for rough sex and bondage. Jason wants Anita’s help to show J.J. why he enjoys it.

This book is not like the other books in the series. Most of the other books have some sort of evil bad guy that Anita is either helping the police or a friend. This book however is one big orgy where Anita works on her relationships with the members of her circle, male or female. Anita has to face that sometimes she cannot fix everything.

I found this book very well written with a unexpected plot. The main characters and secondary characters are interesting. I liked that Ms. Hamilton brought in several of the secondary characters we are used to seeing. The ending of the book was predictable however this book is different than the other books in the series. This book does not have a crime that Anita is trying to solve and is only focused on sex. Overall, this was a good book.

Reviewed by Victoria for Cocktails and Books