Narcissus In Chains
Book 10 in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series
Laurell K. Hamilton

Men are men, Jean-Claude and Richard are each something else entirely. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, torn between them, has been avoiding both vampire and werewolf for months. But when a kidnapper targets innocents she has sworn to protect, Anita turns to them for help, which will require harnessing both their powers - and their hungers...

The plot of kidnapping other shapeshifters really isn't much of a plot at all. It's only mentioned in the first few and last few chapters of the book. It's as if the author is trying to have a plot other than the bizarro-porn that this book ends up being.

That being said, this is the most disappointing book in the series. The plot really isn't one and all that really happens is Anita having sex. With a vampire, with a werewolf, with a wereleopard, and even with two vampires, a werewolf, and a wereleopard at once. If I were not determined to read the entire series, I would be done. I really can't recommend this book to anyone, unless this is the kind of thing you're into, but I will say that this installment is 18+ only.

The only interesting thing about the book is the fact that everyone (including Anita) is certain that she has been infected with the leopard version of lycanthropy after a fight. All signs point towards it, and if that were the case, this would be a very interesting plot twist for the series.

But, of course, she ends up not becoming a wereleopard. Oh no, that would be all too common for the author's Mary-Jane fantasy version of herself. Instead, she is something unique - a human with master vampire powers, leopards are hers to call, she has hungers of both vampires and weres, but she is something unique and special, not a common wereleopard. *eye roll*

Yeah. The only reason this book is getting two stars and not one is because it was well written and I did read the whole thing and didn't feel the need to throw it out midway through.

I still don't recommend it though unless you, like me, are bound and determined to read the entire series.

My rating: Two out of five snails.