Enemy of Entropy

Review: Skin Trade

8 June 2009, 6:58 am. Comments Off. Filed under Reading.

Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #17) Skin Trade by Lau­rell K. Hamil­ton

My review


rat­ing: 3 of 5 stars
I kept say­ing I was giv­ing up on Hamilton’s books, then giv­ing her just one more chance as each novel came out, hop­ing that at some point she’d give up the porn and write real nov­els again. With this vol­ume, the effort is finally vindicated.

Don’t get me wrong – there’s def­i­nitely sex in Skin Trade. Sex with yet more new men, even! But it doesn’t start hap­pen­ing ’til well into the book, and when it does occur there’s a lot more jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for it than at some times in the past. It’s still explicit, and there are still likely to be more than two peo­ple in any given bed at a time, but if any of that squicked you, you wouldn’t be read­ing any of her work.

The book nearly earned four stars, but there were a few plot holes that both­ered me too much to for­get them.

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