The problem with having no blood oath is the vampires are allowed to operate unchecked and without accountability. Normally two master vampires do not share a city but the Church is thought of as its own entity so the vampire counsel does not see it as a threat and allows the church to operate unchecked. Malcolm is forfeiting this important part of being a Master. To be blood oathed means that you have drunk your Master’s blood and now answer to his/her call and must obey their commands. In doing so Anita and Jean-Claude uncover that the vampires are oathed to Malcolm, he is the leader of the Church of Eternal Life aka the Vampire Church, are not blood oathed. There is a challenge from the Dragon and her children that must be addressed, plus another from Primo. They finally back down after Anita agrees to assist the police in the investigation into Stevie’s murder.Īnita is also doing her best to help Jean-Claude with vampire politics.

She is given the grim task of explaining this to the Brown’s. Zombies who were murdered are violent and go after their murderer until that person is dead. To raise a zombie that was murdered is unsafe. They want their dead son raised as a zombie to ask him some questions. The Celebrity Cafe gave the book a positive review, calling it 'engaging'.At the opening of the book Anita is in a meeting with a couple, Barbara and Steve Brown. The set was collected into two volumes starting in 2007, with a complete edition releasing in 2009. On Octoa twelve issue comic book adaptation of Guilty Pleasures began, published by Marvel Comics and Dabel Brothers Productions. Ultimately, with help from Jean-Claude and Edward, a human associate who specializes in assassinating supernatural targets, Anita kills Nikolaos and many of her followers, making Jean-Claude master of the city. During the course of this investigation, Anita begins her relationship with Jean-Claude, another master vampire, and receives two of the four marks necessary to make her Jean-Claude's 'human servant.' Ultimately, Anita identifies the murderer, but by that point has sufficiently antagonized Nikolaos and her underlings that she is forced to confront them.

In Guilty Pleasures, Anita Blake is blackmailed by Nikolaos, the vampire master of the city, into investigating a series of vampire murders. The novel blends elements of supernatural and hardboiled detective fiction. Guilty Pleasures introduces the character of Anita Blake, a vampire hunter and necromancer, who works in an alternate universe where magic, vampires, werewolves and other supernatural elements exist. It is the first book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Guilty Pleasures is a 1993 horror and mystery novel by American writer Laurell K.

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