Description from back cover:
“Hamilton introduces Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. She’s small, dark, and dangerous. But when the city’s most powerful vampire comes to her for help, Anita is faced with her greatest fear—a man capable of arousing in her a hunger strong enough to match his own.”

I have to be honest, I almost didn’t make it through this book. I had to put it down several times over the first 40 pages or so. Definitely a book that pushed my buttons.
This one claims to be the first in the series, but there’s a lot of history (in terms of character and plot), some of which could have been gone into with more detail (I would have appreciated it anyway).
Anita’s world is a violent one, and I’ll probably get through this series slowly (not good to dwell on such energies as a regular emotional diet).

Order to be read:
Guilty Pleasures
Laughing Corpse
Circus of the Damned
Lunatic Cafe
Bloody Bones
Killing Dance
Burnt Offerings
Blue Moon
Obsidian Butterfly
Narcissus In Chains
Cerulean Sins
Incubus Dreams
Micah

Previously published on BookCrossing.com, 2003