The sex and men part of this series has just become ridiculous. Of course, all of this sex is supposedly because she is possessed by something called the ardeur that she has to feed by having sex or she could go crazy blah blah blah. Then at night she had sex with some random vampire stripper named Byron in the back room at the strip club. Later, she was at work and had sex with Nathaniel, the were-panther, in her office. She had sex with Damien, the vampire, in the morning in front of a bunch of people or were-animals in her living room. I didn’t even get to the halfway point of this book and Anita had already had sex with 3 men in one day. She is so irresistible that men are willing to share her with other men just to be able to have her attention. All the men lust after her and want her to be theirs. She makes every man in the book…and there are a lot of men…want Anita Blake like she is irresistible. Hamilton is a little narcissistic herself. After looking up the author and seeing her pictures, I think that the author made Anita Blake to look just like her and may be vicariously living through her character which makes me think that maybe Laurell K. Unfortunately, the author really believes Anita Blake’s character is cool. She did get less prejudice but that is probably the only thing that improved. Instead, she made her a cold blooded killer and a sex fiend. I thought the author intentionally made her readers dislike Anita Blake’s character by making her rude, narcissistic, judgmental and bigoted and then by life lesson’s would allow her to mature into someone more likeable. I also liked some of the secondary characters but since they are now all in love with the great and powerful Anita, I no longer can stand them. Hamilton, was slowly developing the character of the protagonist, Anita Blake.

I stuck with them this long because I thought the author, Laurell K. I know there are at least 8 more books in this series but I won’t be reading them. It’s time for me to say goodbye to the Anita Blake series. I tried to go on and force myself through it but I just can’t do it anymore. TOTAL CRAP! This book was the worst of this series.

Incubus Dreams by Laurell K. Hamilton