Narcissus in Chains Review

Time for another book review. I am still reading the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton and I have slowed down my reading a lot. I am now taking the whole two weeks that I have these books and reading them and it is really throwing off my Goodreads challenge. I will be posting two more book reviews this month, and hopefully I can review 1 or 2 more, but those aren't set in stone. I was thinking of making the whole last week of June a book review week. Now onto the review.

To start off this story, Anita has made her way back home to St. Louis and has made contact again with Jean-Claude and the vampires, along with Richard and the werewolf pack. She is thrown headfirst into a bunch of problems caused by her absence. First, she gains a new power through Jean-Claude called the ardeur. It is a power that has to be fed by sex or blood feeding. It is a power that is only in Jean-Claude's vampire bloodline and there is no history of a human servant gaining that power.

The next thing is that a new wereleopard comes into the story. His name is Micah and he is a Nimir-Raj to Anita's Nimir-Ra. Nimir-Ra is leopard queen and Nimir-Raj is leopard king. Their beats instantly attract and around the end of the story, you will find out why Micah really entered the story.

Now let's get to the title of the book. Narcissus in Chains is the name of a club where the story gets its main action. At the beginning, Anita has to rescue some of her wereleopards who are into BDSM and it has gotten out of hand. Along with rescuing her cats, she rescues some swanmanes along the way and gains the trust and help of the swan king. But, after she does that, chaos ensues and Gregory is captured by the werewolf pack for "Anita's Murder". The werewolf pack has taken Gregory as prisoner and cast out Anita as lupa.

The end of the story is amazing. The plot twist of who really is the bad guy, why Micah was in town, why there are new werewolves and why Richard is being a crap Ulfric.

I don't know why people are hating on these books because of all the sex scenes. Sex is a part of life and if you are a grown adult and don't like reading about sex, then don't. I stopped reading this series in high school because it was just too much for me and my friends also stopped reading them because of the sex. I stopped the series after Incubus Dreams which I am almost finished with and the next is Micah, which I am excited to read. I am hoping that I will be getting back into my reading habits with Micah.

My next review will be next Wednesday on Cerulean Sins.