I know its the 17th book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series and its my first taste of them and I was very glad that I picked it up when I saw it and didn’t wait until I’d read the other previous. Although now I definitely will go back and read her previous books and then I can read this one all over again. Although for someone like me who has just dived straight into these books its a little like drowning with so many characters and so much going on that will have already been explained in more detail in previous novels but Hamilton does acknowledge this and tells you enough to find the surface of the water once more but only reading the others will give you the deep meaningful answer to the questions…So there’s plenty more for me to read…

Here’s the back page:

“I’d worked my share of serial killer cases, but none of the killers had ever mailed me a human head. That was new.

My name is Anita Blake and my reputation has taken some hits. Not on the work front, where I have the highest kill count of all legal vampire executioners in the country, but on the personal front. No one seems to trust a woman who sleeps with the monsters. Still when a vampire serial killer sends me a head from Las Vegas, I know I have to warn Sin City’s local authorities what they’re dealing with.

Only its worse than I thought: several police officers and an executioner have been slain paranormal style. When I get to Las Vegas, I’m joined by three other federal marshals. Which is a good thing because I need all the back-up I can get when hunting a killer this powerful and dangerous.”

Well I have there’s no two ways about it I have hardly done anything, apart from getting slowly addicted to G’s DS…

And we did have some eventful days last week G fell over right outside school and is now sporting a lovely round graze, with a nice yellow tinge to it, she did do it on Thursday.

And then both the kids had their swine flu injections on the Friday, I got to sit in the waiting room while hubby took each of them in G was super brave and hardly cried but Dub cried a fair bit but then we had lost his dummy so he had new ones (and he doesn’t like new ones).

We found the dummy on the Saturday he has a new hiding place on the top of the sofa behind the cushions…

I really need to do more of everything… Well maybe not eat so much but everything else I really need a jump start…

Well  I knew I was terrible at taking photos so here’s my sisters fantastic photographic skills (oh and a better camera than my lame camera phone) at work.

What’s that you ask…Its the bloody snow , everywhere I turn someones talking/blogging about it so I thought I’d add my thoughts.

Firstly I’m sick of it, especially with G back to school and having to cart dub in his quinny pushchair, its like a rollercoaster for him.

(Even without the snow I hate that pushchair, the brakes don’t work properly and the raincover doesn’t fit right.)

Anyway even with my pushchair driving skills being poor at the best of times its been like having a forty five minute walk over a beach its been a nightmare, although the first day was the worst because the snow kept sticking to the wheels and then they would jam up and it would be sliding with a mound of snow in front of each wheel.

And then with G wanting to hold hands too so I’m pushing the 3 wheel death trap one handed, well I think even Jesus would curse like a sailor all the way there and back.

But I can feel the burn in my arm muscles and legs so it can’t be all bad…

Well G starts the journey a little over excited making snowballs and running around and then burns herself out before we get halfway… Then she walks all duck footed because she thinks her feet are wet when they’re just cold… Oh its a fun packed trip to school.

I did wish it would stop snowing today so I could go out and make a snowman but the kids just won’t hang out outside if its blowing in their little faces. G has been wearing my sunglasses to stop the snowflakes getting in her eyes. She does look funny.

I haven’t fallen over yet so thats definitely in the pro section, G has a few times but nothing too major so wahay!

Hope its a little warmer tomorrow so we can go out in it and play without having to go to school or to the shops, although knowing my luck we will need milk again…

Oh I’m whizzing through these books hehe, only 98 to go, (well its 97 really I’ve read another one I’m just a little slow at posting).

Anyway this is the sequel to Midnights Daughter which follows the exploits of Dhampir Dorina Basarab. I wasn’t sure if I had read the first one but after a couple of pages I realised I had and it all came flooding back.

Also that I got Midnight’s Daughter for Xmas last year from my mum as well as the first Keri Arthur. Well I thought it was a bit strange.

It’s a very easy read, even with a lot of characters and following the twisty story but it keeps flowing and it is easy to follow. But you might want to read the other one first.

Here’s the back page for a taste:

“Dorina Basarab is a dhampir – half-human, half-vampire – and the only way she can stay sane is by unleashing her sometimes uncontrollable rage on demons and vampires that deserve killing.

After the fortunate demise of her insane uncle Dracula, Dory is back home in Brooklyn, hopinh that life will calm down for a while. But then two visitors arrive, her friend Claire, asking for Dory’s help in finding a magical Fey relic, and the gorgeous master-vampire Louis-Cesare, desperate to find his former mistree, a vampire named Christine.

Dory and Louis-Cesare soon discover their problems may be connected: the same master-vampire Christine is bound to is also rumoured to be in possession of the relic. But they soon realize there’s more at stake when Christine’s master turns up dead. Someone is killing vampire Senate members, and if Dory and Louis-Cesare can’t stop the murder, they may be next…