100 Things: Post #12: Anita Blake & Merry Gentry

[arenee1999]

Anita Blake Series

Anita Blake is an Animator, who raises the dead for a living, as well as a Vampire Executioner and U.S. Marshal for the Regional Preternatural Investigation Team. She lives in St. Louis, were not only do wereanimals and vampires walk the streets, they have rights as citizens.

 The Books:

• Guilty Pleasures (1993) ISBN 0-515-13449-X
• The Laughing Corpse (1994) ISBN 0-425-19200-8
• Circus of the Damned (1995) ISBN 0-515-13448-1
• The Lunatic Cafe (1996) ISBN 0-425-20137-6
• Bloody Bones (1996) ISBN 0-425-20567-3
• The Killing Dance (1997) ISBN 0-425-20906-7
• Burnt Offerings (1998) ISBN 0-515-13447-3
• Blue Moon (1998) ISBN 0-515-13445-7
• Obsidian Butterfly (2000) ISBN 0-515-13450-3
• Narcissus in Chains (2001) ISBN 5-558-61270-3
• Cerulean Sins (2003) ISBN 0-515-13681-6
• Incubus Dreams (2004) ISBN 0-425-19824-3
• Micah (February 2006) ISBN 0-515-14087-2
• Danse Macabre (June 2006) ISBN 0-425-20797-8
• The Harlequin (2007) ISBN 978-0-425-21724-5
• Blood Noir (2008) ISBN 978-0-425-22219-5
• Skin Trade (2009) ISBN 978-0-425-22772-5
• Flirt (February 2010) ISBN 978-0-425-23567-6
• Bullet (June 2010) ISBN 978-0-425-23433-4
• Hit List (June 7, 2011) ISBN 978-1-101-51550-1
• Kiss the Dead (June 5, 2012) ISBN 978-0-425-24754-9

Many fans of this series have issues with the way things change after book 5. At that point the books go from being rated R due to violence to being rated NC-17 due to sex. Of course, I LOVE the NC-17 rating. ;) And it helps that Anita and I share a few kinks. I should mention that there is a lot of BDSM involved.

Things are starting to calm down in these last few books, we're seeing more of the case work/murder solving again. The sex is still there, but Anita has begun to get control of her powers and as long as she doesn't gain anymore animals to call the influx of new guys should slow down as well.

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Merry Gentry Series

Meredith Gentry is a faerie princess turned private investigator. Merry, the only Sidhe royal to be born on American soil, fearing the continuous assassination attempts on her life thinly disguised as duels, flees the Unseelie Court in a final act of self-preservation. She is hiding from her family and her past in Los Angeles as a private investigator at Grey's Detective Agency.

The Books:

• A Kiss of Shadows (2000)
• A Caress of Twilight (2002)
• Seduced by Moonlight (2004)
• A Stroke of Midnight (2005)
• Mistral's Kiss (2006)
• A Lick of Frost (2007)
• Swallowing Darkness (2008)
• Divine Misdemeanors (Dec 2009)

If you have a problem with the amount sex in the Anita Blake series, this is not the series for you. However, this one isn't into BDSM as much. Merry does have more men than Anita though. Warning: There be Tentacle!Porn

Laurell K. Hamilton's Website
Anita Blake Wikipedia Article
Merry Gentry Wikipedia Article

Comments

[jeffhardyfan722.livejournal.com]

I love love love the Anita Blake Series!!!!!! Though I'm not to crazy about the last book. It seemed rushed and like it was missing something. Left me scratching mt head and wondering if this book was meant to be leading up to the next book.

As for Merry... well I've never read any of those books. I should though. I keep hearing how good they are.