Book 22 in the Anita Blake series. It's a day like any other until Anita gets a call from Micah's mother whom he hasn't spoken to in years in an effort to keep his family safe from Chimera. Micah's father has been bitten by some strange zombie and is now rotting from the inside out and doesn't have long to live. Anita goes with Micah to his father's bedside as his support but it's also her job to try and figure out what is going on with this new zombie infection and what she finds out isn't comforting at all.
The plot was decent and the number of sex scenes was down which are both good things but instead she has now replaced the meaningless sex with long internal monologues about how well Anita's life is working so she doesn't want to screw it up. The book was mostly one long dive into how Anita's relationships are working and how much she has changed from who she was with the occasional foray into screwed up family relationships. I had high hopes when Edward came along only to find that he has apparently gone into therapy and is no longer our favorite little sociopath but is encouraging Anita to go have sex and cuddle with her guys. The main bad guy could have been much more interesting but again, that seemed to take a back seat to the relationships and emotional garbage. And the repetition!!! OMG! Seriously, we don't need to hear repeatedly how Leandro has a family so can't be put into danger like she did last time or about JC's eyes or any of the other things that we were reminded of on a constant basis. Also, seriously, get a better editor! There were multiple places were it looks like a sentence had been changed but the old one not completely erased or something as they made no frigging sense whatever. I would have to reread them several times to try and figure out what was trying to be said.
So why did I read it when I was pretty sure I was done with this series after the last book? Mostly because I was still hoping to make my page read count for the year (not happening) and it was at the library at the same time I was with a lot of pages I could read quickly and I caved. Big mistake.
Page count: 570p/36,000p ytd/180,400p lifetime
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