Bloody Bones

Anita has been paid a small fortune to fly outside of the city to raise dead at an old burial site to help sort out a land rights issue. Mr Stirling the millionaire wants to build a hotel in the hills. Mr Bouvier is fighting to save the rightful land of his ancestors saying the hills in question where ancient cemeteries of his ancestors.

What we learn later on is that Bouvier is actually a fae from the unseelie court cursed to remain on those lands to ensure an ancient evil called Rawhead and Bloody Bones, a fae monster who was created to hunt and kill humans but predominantly misbehaving children. last time it escaped it killed almost a whole tribe some 300 years ago so it doesn't seem to discriminate much.

Meanwhile there is a series of murders in the area that Anita's been called in to assist on. Whilst assisting a young boy got kidnapped by vampires so Anita pulls out all stops to help try and save him so what does she do. She asks for help from her friendly neighbourhood Vampire Master Jean-Claude.

He flies to her with a familiar werewolf friend called Jason. The only problem is she's technically in another vampires territory and Jean-Claude has basically done the equivalent of a monarch/ruler flying into a hostile foreign country with no passport or visa and only one body guard.

Seraphina, the local master was not too long ago considered to be a lesser master to Jean Claude but when they go to pay her a visit regarding a missing boy, they got out through political manipulation. Seraphina now royally outclasses Jean-Claude and they are lucky to leave alive except the missing boy is still missing.

Thoughts

Now normally Anita wouldn't be able to raise zombies this old but she's brought her trainee Larry. Larry is strong but is still learning and so she's brought him as basically the equivalent of a back-up power source and she can train him at the same time. Only with all the dangers around Anita Larry is now being forced to face the fact that Anita is known as the executioner for more than just her kill rate. Anita is not always the good guy. This is an interesting thing to read in books where the lead character and heroin is not lawful good but is actually somewhere between Neutral Good and Lawful Neutral.

In this book we get to hear about some background information about fae and also looks a little into how Anitas Necromancy powers link with vampires. We finally begin to see a touch of erotica in this book. Jean-Claude at least gets naked. I give this book 6.8/10. It's dramatic. It provides a good history point for Anitas accomplishments but was a but it's basically "everyone get pissed off at Anita" book and you can't help but feel defensive for her when reading it which has left me feeling less than pleasant after finishing the book.