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Jason (2014)

by Laurell K. Hamilton(Favorite Author)

3.18 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0515156078 (ISBN13: 9780515156072)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Jove

series

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter

review 1: This was my least favorite of all the Anita Blake books. I love Anita for her hunting skills 1st and love life 2nd. This is all love life. Jason asks Anita and Nathaniel to have sex with him and his girlfriend JJ a Ballerina. It's sort of a show and tell. Nathaniel and Anita show JJ what being tied up is like and in return JJ who is bisexual helps Anita with her one and only female lover Jade who joins them. If there is a story here I suppose it is about sex & love & learning who is good for them and who isn't.I reread the Anita books every couple of years. I don't see any reason to reread this one.
review 2: Laurell K. Hamilton brings readers a short novella from the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, Jason. This is a novella that essentially lets read... moreers see inside the head of a succubus. It's full of everything sexual. From talks at the breakfast table to full on poly-amorous adventures. Anita is somewhat into BDSM and she's exploring the bi-sexual side of things. Jason, a friend and lover is having an issue with love of his life and he needs Anita to help him work it out, in more ways than one.I have read several of the books in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, and I've liked them all. The first few books in the series are really enjoyable reads for anyone interested the paranormal. The premise however has changed over the course of the series and Anita has undergone a lot of character growth and has become a lot more sexual in nature, as have the books. The latest novella in the series, Jason continues to explore Anita's sexuality and preferences. Some readers are going to enjoy that. Hamilton has a huge following with this series and in part the sexual content is a big draw. But some readers are going to find it more of the same old thing.Anita is a succubus and as such I expect the books to carry a high concentration of sexuality. You can't really write a succubus character and not have that. That's what it all about. It's central to that type of paranormal character. So, I wasn't surprised at the overall sexiness of this particular story. But there were a few things that didn't quite match up to what I generally expect from this author. Usually, Hamilton gives readers the strong sexual stuff, but she also gives them another avenue to explore, like a mystery of some type or even some zombie related issues for Anita to solve. Not this time. Perhaps it was the shorter format or maybe Hamilton just wanted to write a story that was completely focused on Anita's sexuality. Whatever the reason, there isn't a whole lot other than sex going on in this novella. It does help the reader see into Anita's psyche where it comes to sexuality but that's about it.Anita is a lot of things when it comes to sex. She has tons of sexual partners, she likes it rough, she is exploring both men and women and she has some BDSM tendencies. That'a pretty hard sell in some ways, but she is a succubus so I guess that is supposed to explain it all. I just felt like I needed a little more reason to believe that one person could be all those things. I read erotica and though this book doesn't go that far, I don't think I've ever read a character, succubus or otherwise that is quite as active as Anita in this book and in the last several books in the series. I feel a little let down by that for some reason. I think I would have liked it better had she settled into one of those sexual activities and not all at the same time. Then Hamilton could have honed in on what Anita needed sexually and explored that in a lot greater detail. This novella just felt a little too full of too many different things, sexually speaking.The sex scenes were, well sexual. Anita has some pretty amazing men in her life and now she's exploring women. I wanted to enjoy the sex scenes and I had a hard time with that because, Hamilton doesn't really call anything what it really is. Yep, there is a bit of terminology issue that I find kind of funny. I understand the need to use a different word for some things, to try to make it sound new and refreshing, but sometimes I want to hear those words. I want to know exactly what this character is doing, where he or she is doing it, and why it felt good to do it that way... LOL. I'm not talking dirty, nasty, descriptions, but a little less "going" and a little more "coming" if you know what I mean would have served this book well.Bottom Line:If you are a fan of the series and have read every book, than I expect you'll probably read this one as well. If you have possibly had some issues with the last few books in the series, this is probably a little more of the same. I wanted more plot, I wanted one aspect of Anita's sexuality to explore and I honestly wanted better sexual language. More correct terminology and less trying to say something without really saying the word. The F-word can explain a lot, but there are a lot of other words that were needed here, that reader's just didn't get. This one just wasn't my cup of tea, but it might be yours! less

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