Dead Ice (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #24) by Laurell K. Hamilton

*does some silly reader-girl dancing about*

Yay! Some of the old Anita was peeking out and I loved it!! This series. Some love it. Some hate it. Some love to hate it. And do so passionately. People are all over the place with it. And I can be too. It's one I love overall but some books are hit or miss for me. Dead Ice...definitely landing on the hit side of things. I was nervous about starting Dead Ice but within a few pages that nervousness started turning to excitement because I could see that old Anita from earlier in the series peeking out and that...was freaking awesome. I've missed her!

Jason (Anita Blake #23) by Laurell K. Hamilton

"Enjoying pain with your pleasure is something you either get, or you don't. If you get it, then you don't really need it explained, because you know how good it feels, and if you don't get it then no amount of talking is going to convince you it makes sense."

But sometimes you have to explain the unexplainable, especially if the love of your life needs to understand, or she'll leave you. Jason Schuyler is one of Anita Blake's best friends and favorite werewolves, with benefits. J.J. is his lady love, an old flame from childhood who dances at one of the top ballet companies in New York. She's accomplished, beautiful, and she's crazy about him, too. Neither of them wants to be monogamous, so what could go wrong?

J.J. is enthusiastically bisexual, with an emphasis on the female side of things. She plans to keep sleeping with women, because Jason can't meet that need, just like she can't meet Jason's need for rough sex and bondage. J.J. doesn't understand why Jason isn’t content to go elsewhere for a need she can’t fulfil, so Jason asks Anita to help him explain.

Anita is having her own relationship growing pains with her only female lover ever, Jade. Jason suggests that J.J. might be able to help Anita with her girl problem, while she helps him with his kinky explanations. With some encouragement from a few other lovers in Anita's life she reluctantly agrees, and J. J. makes plans to fly into town for an experience that none of them will ever forget.

Type: Paranormal Romance but really just Erotica
Heat: 4 out of 5
Rating: 2 out of 5
Cover: 1 out of 5--it's just not verra good. Makes me think of being inside a vagina and looking out at the man candy about to plunder. *flails hands*

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Alright *rubs hand down face* Where to start with this one. Jason.

I didn't hate it. But I didn't love it either. And in the end...not one that's going to stick with me (in a good way) or be a repeat read which is disappointing for a series that's long been one of my favorites.

There are two main bits to Jason

1) Jason's human girlfriend doesn't understand his need for rough sex so he's asked Anita and the guys to help explain it to her...up close and personal like by showing her how rough he likes it while she watches (don't worry--that's her kink--but she can't understand his)

2) Anita has a female lover for the first time and it's just not doing it for her. None of the guys can teach her oral with this female lover so Jason's girlfriend who is bi is going to step in and give her a how to on licking girly bits.

And so begins a 255 page sex scene.

No. Really. 255 pages. :slow blink: Okay maybe 250 pages. There was a set up on them talking about said sex-a-thon.

Must Reads! Urban Fantasy

A bit back I was asked about doing some favorites lists. 

Books or authors I think should be on everyone's tbr pile.

And so... Herding Cats & Burning Soup Must Reads! 

(figured that was more, erm, appropriate? than my first go of...You need to read these fucking books!)