Jason
by Laurell K. HamiltonSeries: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter #23
Published by Jove on December 2nd 2014
SubGenres: Urban Fantasy
Pages: 255
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"Enjoying pain with your pleasure is something you either get, or you don't. If you get it, then you don't really need it explained, because you know how good it feels, and if you don't get it then no amount of talking is going to convince you it makes sense."
But sometimes you have to explain the unexplainable, especially if the love of your life needs to understand, or she'll leave you. Jason Schuyler is one of Anita Blake's best friends and favorite werewolves, with benefits. J.J. is his lady love, an old flame from childhood who dances at one of the top ballet companies in New York. She's accomplished, beautiful, and she's crazy about him, too. Neither of them wants to be monogamous, so what could go wrong?
J.J. is enthusiastically bisexual, with an emphasis on the female side of things. She plans to keep sleeping with women, because Jason can't meet that need, just like she can't meet Jason's need for rough sex and bondage. J.J. doesn't understand why Jason isn’t content to go elsewhere for a need she can’t fulfil, so Jason asks Anita to help him explain.
Anita is having her own relationship growing pains with her only female lover ever, Jade. Jason suggests that J.J. might be able to help Anita with her girl problem, while she helps him with his kinky explanations. With some encouragement from a few other lovers in Anita's life she reluctantly agrees, and J. J. makes plans to fly into town for an experience that none of them will ever forget.
This will be a short review because it was a really short book to read. (I read it within one day in between breaks from packing, so yup…it was a quick read)
I enjoyed reading a shorter book from the Anita Blake series, but I feel like this was more of a book filled with drama, pillow talk, and sex than anything else. It didn’t have anything to do with zombies, vampires, police work, etc. It was all about Jason and his lover JJ, and Anita is trying to get with terms with her first female lover, Jade who wants more from her. (Jade seems to be too skittish for Anita. ) Jason’s lover needs to understand what she can’t give Jason and what Anita can give him. It’s pretty much a gang up on Anita at the beginning of the book because she wasn’t prepared to deal with what Jason had to tell her and even Nathaniel. (I felt sorry for Anita at first)
Towards the middle and end…be ready for some sexy times in the bedroom. I will always love scenes with Nathaniel. (He’s always been a favorite) He has grown since the first time he was introduced in the Anita books. Jason has always been a favorite of mine too, but that’s because he tells it how it is and he’s not one of Anita’s true lovers. He’s there with benefits.
Overall, the 23rd book in the Anita Blake series was a nice break from the crazy police work, a drama-filled life that Anita deals with usually. It wasn’t dark and twisted. It brings to specific light issues that Anita needed to work on in her life. I give the book 4 stars. It doesn’t have the full love like some of the other Anita Blake books I’ve read, but it’s still a page-turner.
If you don’t like all the sexy times from Anita Blake, I feel you could skip the book and move on to Dead Ice. But do you want to miss the opportunity to read some sexy times with Nathaniel and Jason? Ummm not I! I love those two.
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About Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell K. Hamilton's is a paranormal thriller writer and is a regular on the New York Times Bestseller List through titles in her two series Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter and Meredith Gentry: Fairy Princess/Private Eye. The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, published by Penguin Group under the Berkley Books imprint, spans 24 novels, including Dead Ice, which will be released early June 2015. With over 6 million copies in print worldwide and available in over 16 languages, there is no end in sight for Anita, the professional necromancer and licensed vampire executioner.
Marvel Comics has worked closely with Hamilton to adapt her books in the Anita Blake series into comic book medium with a stunning amount of success. The first installment of the graphic novel, Guilty Pleasures, was released in July 2007 and was the number one best selling graphic novel for that month. The Meredith Gentry series published by Ballantine Books features Meredith Gentry as a part‐human, part‐fey private investigator. Under orders from her aunt Andias, Queen of the Unseelie Court, Meredith is in a race to become pregnant and ascend the throne before her cousin Cel does. The cost of failure will be her own life and that of those who follow her. The latest Merry book, Divine Misdemeanors, debuted December 8th, 2009.
Laurell Hamilton resides in St. Louis County, Missouri, with her husband and partner Jonathon Green, her daughter, and their furbarian horde.
Her education includes degrees in English and biology from Marion (now Indiana Wesleyan University)
My obsession with reading started over 30+ years ago when I went to my first Scholastic Book Fair and found R.L. Stine's Fear Street series. Later, I came across Anne Rice's novels at my public library when I was fourteen when my obsession with vampires started. I was the girl who preferred to be a vampire over a princess any day. My husband says I would leave him a heartbeat for a vampire that looked like Spike or Angel (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries. (It's true, though, and he's accepted it.)
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