Watch a video "The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it was no reflection on the kids, but my will to live began to seep away on about the fifth group of sequined children... "
Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U. S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita's past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It's hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here-in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America.
The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can't succeed in taking over Anita's body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again. Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word: "Run if you can..."
I loved this book. I think it might be my new favorite in the Anita Blake series. LKH finally brings Anita back to St. Louis and all of her men. There are also several new characters. The only thing that could have made this book better in my eyes would be to have Edward in it. He is one of my favorite characters, so I did miss the fact that he was absent in this book (hopefully in the next book **smile**).
It is hard to say much without giving any spoilers, so I will just say a few things that LKH has already said, but I completely agree with. I want the name of Richard's therapist. I am not a fan of Richard, I am sick of his whining, but he kept everything together through some stuff that never would have thought some of the other men could do, even less so from Richard.
