This book is a hundred times better then Guilty Pleasures. It had a good gripping story, Jean-Claude, and not a lot of corney cliches that the 1st book had.

Anita sometimes gets a little irritating, you don't have to say your a 'tough as nails vampire slayer' twenty times, we got it. I also don't quite understand how bloody murder scenes make her puke but she can lop off a vampires head without a hint of an upset stomach ... vamps bleed too.

Anita also had her good moments ... that and the story line kept me reading and I'm glad I did.

The Laughing Corpse is a comedy club run by vampires. Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. Why is she hanging out there? Oh so may reason, she has found herself linked psychically to the head vampire of St. Louis, she's not happy, but she's coping, more or less. She finds herself in way over her head when she refuses to raise a long dead family member of a wealthy, but disturbing man, who may be connected to the mob. With his enforcers following her around, a murderous zombie on the loose and Jean-Claude demanding she act as his human servant, Anita is running in circles and getting nowhere fast. But she finds the zombie and continues to defy the Master of the City, without losing either her life or her humanity, for now.


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