Vampire hunter Anita Blake is no stranger to killing monsters. It’s part of her job as a Preternatural U.S. Marshal, after all. But even her experience isn’t enough to stop something that is bent on destroying everything—and everyone—she loves.

Anita Blake is engaged to Jean-Claude, the new vampire king of America. Humans think she’s gone over to the side of the monsters. The vampires fear that their new king has fallen under the spell of the most powerful necromancer in a thousand years.

In the midst of wedding preparations—including getting Edward, aka U.S. Marshal Ted Forrester, fitted as best man—Anita gets a call that the local police need her expertise at a brutal murder scene linked to a nationwide slaughter of vampires and humans, dubbed the Sunshine Murders.

But there is more than just a murderer to catch: an ancient evil has arrived in St. Louis to challenge Jean-Claude for his crown, his life, Anita, and all they hold dear. Even with Jean-Claude’s new powers as king and Anita’s necromancy, it isn’t enough; they must embrace their triumvirate or allow primeval darkness to spread across the country, possessing first the vampires and then the humans. Evil will triumph unless Jean-Claude and Anita can prove that love conquers all.

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Laurell K. Hamilton
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Kimberly Alexis
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March 21 2023
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English
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Listening Length	11 hours and 14 minutes
Author	Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrator	Kimberly Alexis
Audible.ca Release Date	March 21 2023
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0B621J1NQ
Best Sellers Rank	#18,859 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #55 in Vampire Horror Fiction #698 in Horror Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #2,492 in Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals)

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Jana Martic

As far as Anita Blake goes this book is a 4/5.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 27, 2014

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I have restarted reading earlier Anita Blake books for the hundredth time, and to tell you the truth this new novel is not so far off the original books.

Good: Surprisingly big book (not filled with crap). Action is great, very entertaining! Sex only after page 276 (Brava!). Edward's in it! Anita is not confused with herself and does not question every single move she does.

Bad: Too many characters; it's confusing at times. Lengthy discussions in stressful matters (where do they get the time?). Anita cries about 5 times (?!). This book should have Micah as the main male character, as it is he who is losing his father. However, it is mostly concentrated on Nicky (who the hell be that?).

*FYI: I am the kind of person who bought "Flirt", read it in a night, brought it back to the bookstore and got a refund because it was such turd. I could not go past chapters 2-3 in both "Hitlist" and "Kiss the Dead". If this sounds a bit like you, you will like "Affliction"!

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K. Young

A good read, but overly detailed

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 15, 2013

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Anita Blake books never fail to provide a good story and lots of action (double entendre intended), but this one is almost cumbersome in its detail. I admit to tiring of it and skipping sections, as well as having no problem putting the book down for periods of time. Sometimes there can be too many words, and this is one of those times.

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Derek Perry

Better than recent books

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 3, 2013

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So much better than recent books. She seems to be trying to get back to the store end of things, rather than just seeing how many ways she can get Anita laid in a chapter. Very good read.

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Sydney

but I loved what she did here

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 4, 2014

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This one went a different way, but I loved what she did here, I love getting to know more about the men in Anita's life and shes getting back into her crime solving which is awesome! She has more control over her abilities and can get back down to the mysteries.

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Feels like 1/2 a book - Smolder

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 25, 2023

Specific to audio version. I wish the narrator kept samples of the character voices. Having Damien go from sounding british in the other books to sounding almost like Olaf in this novel ruined that portion of the story for me. As to the storyline itself.... the actual storyline doesn't move very much. What we got of the story was fine, but it covers what seems like about 8 hours of the day. the last chapter felt rushed, and all I can think about is how much time was spent in other places that could have been spent on the last chapter. discussing colours, listening to a detailed explanation of Damien's hair colour twice . The book ended and I was like "what??" and checked to see if maybe there was a problem with the audiobook and it had stopped by mistake. I've never felt like I didn't get my money's worth with one of her books until now.

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C. Rastin

Love Anita

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 23, 2013

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Have been reading this series for awhile and once again Laurell did not disappoint. Can't wait to see what Anita and the gang get up to next.

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Michelle

Laurell K. Hamilton <3

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 31, 2013

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Everything about it was perfect.The book was in perfect shape, and you could tell that it was packaged as solid as possible. The book itself is another piece of art from Laurell. Highly recommend!! You won't be disappointed ;)

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 14, 2018

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OneCatEvil

Come on Ms Hamilton!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 29, 2013

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I started reading these books about a female corpse raider who helped the police, in the background she starts dating/meeting guys who are interested and willing to pursue. Over the last 10/12 books that has changed to almost constant sex with everything passing through, very little storey line/police investigation/zombie work, and sadly non stop emotional cra** from her partners, well Ms Hamilton if I wanted relationship drama I would watch Eastenders! (Sorry Eastenders fans but it has to be said!).
This storey line is pulling a little back towards the original (not much, but I think there were pages were no one had heart felt chats or hard sex) I think now I stick with the books hoping she'll turn back or kill everyone off. Worth reading to stay in the loop but otherwise is very similer to the last 3.
Oh and if Ms Hamilton does get to see this - I stopped reading the Merry Gentry series because of the boringly long pages and pages of sex with every creature and no story line that didn't have to do with the Fey throne, I started reading that series for the fairy private eye angle and loved the first book. Please stop writing S&M and get back to stories with a plot.

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Tali

Good but not quite back to great.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 29, 2013

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The last few novels in the series have been missing a lot of the previous elements that made it so amazing and it took me a few weeks to get around to buying this next installment. I can't say its back to its original high standard, but its getting back on track. After the last novel I was starting to lose interest, mainly because the last book felt like it should have been a scene in one of the other books as opposed to being its own novel.

Starts out fairly well, caught my interest and kept me reading and before I knew it I had finished the book! It's certainly a step back in the right direction and although not quite back to its previous level, its a very good start.

This book revolves around Micah and his beginnings, but soon moves beyond that as Anita gets on case. Some really exciting moments in this book and some humor to make the less exciting scenes worth reading. It's a fairly balanced book and I enjoyed it. My only gripe being the occasional 'this sounds familiar' paragraph. I don't know if it's just me, but there were a number of Anita's inner thoughts which seemed almost copy and pasted from previous novels with a few tweaks to make it look unique. It might just be me, but there were a lot of déjà vu moments like that.

So overall, enjoyable but still lacking in comparison to previous books.

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Mary Heron

COULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST BOOK SO FAR

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 9, 2013

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Loved the storyline, it's an away mission for Anita (and they are always the best stories)which means we get Edward, AND a Zombie Apocalypse loved it, from start to finish. So whats the problem you may ask, I am sick to death of Anita having to go through the whole, fangbanger/blood whore drama with almost every police officer and /or official she meets. there must be over half a dozen long scenes in this book alone on the subject, and how many times in one book do you need to describe a characters physical attributes, even the characters on the periphery of the story get detailed descriptions every time they appear on page. Also I am by no means a prude but I have to say I am starting to get disturbed about the direction the series sex scenes are taking, I have read some ellora's cave, so when Anita expressed a liking for bdsm thought ok, and up till this book most of the bdsm has happened off page. Not this book, I really did not find anything remotely entertaining in reading a scene between Nicky, Nathaniel and Anita, I will not spoil the book for anybody suffice to say if the series continues in this vein I will not be reading anymore, have been with Anita for day one and would hate to stop reading but the sex scenes strike me as more suited to a fetish book than an urban fantasy, and I really think this book should carry a warning.

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ZJK64

Cracking good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 19, 2019

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I had thought this series jumped the shark half a dozen titles back, but this one actually has a decent plot and all the good points of the early books. Hamilton has stopped going on and on and on about the difficulties Anita has with all her hot men and is back to writing a proper engaging story.

The Shaman

The dead bite back

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 6, 2013

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A nice return to the older fashoined Anitia Blake stroies, solving crimes and killing vampires. A new supernatural twist as well, with a different kind of Zombi out there infecing people. When Anitia says "I don't know" about the undead you can tell the body count is going to be high. A great book but this far into the serise it's impossible for a new reader to pick up whoes who from this book along. I'd highly reccomend it but only for long term fans of the seirse.

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