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Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Book Review: Rafael (Anita Blake Book 28) by Laurell K. Hamilton

by Laurell K. Hamilton
February 9, 2021
Publisher: Berkley
236 pages
Rafael, king of the wererats, must fight to the death to defend his crown. He wants Anita Blake, one of his closest allies, with him as he faces an opponent unlike any he’s faced before. He will ask Anita to risk everything to be at his side.…
 
But some of the wererats fear that Rafael depends too much on Anita and her ties to the vampires. They believe that there is only room in America for one supernatural king, and Rafael will turn them into nothing more than food for the bloodsuckers.
 
Among his enemies, a new challenger has arisen who is younger, hungrier, and has dark secrets that could destroy both the wererats and the vampires. Rafael will go into the magical heart of his people to find the power and violence that he needs to save them all, or die trying.


Reviewer: Mary Kirkland (Dark Thoughts Blog)
I give this book 5 out of 5 sheep.
This book is all about Rafael and Anita and whether or not she is going to make him her rat to call and whether or not the wererats are going to accept her. While a lot of the wererats like her and know that she isn't evil and know that they aren't in danger from her or Jean-Claude, there are a few that are scared which causes some problems.

Asher is back and Jean-Claude has forgiven him for being such a jerk in the past. I felt for the guy because he had some stuff that he needed to work through. But Anita is being standofish with him not only because of how he acted but because his boyfriend, Kane hates her. This is going to be really interesting in upcoming books when they all start sleeping together again which I know is going to happen.

Rafael is a wererat and The Rat King, which I loved. I'm a huge rat person myself so I really liked seeing wererats in this story. Rafael was getting challenged often because the wererats were scared that if Anita made Rafael her rat to call that all of them would be servant's to the vampires because of her ties to Jean-Claude. The wererats were also scared because Anita and Jean-Claude were getting married and although she had wereanimal magic, she couldn't shift into any wereanimals. Rafael is supposed to fight Hector and if he loses, Hector will be the new leader of the wererats. Anita is scared that Rafael might not win because Rafael doesn't seem to have what it takes emotionally to kill Hector. So when Anita feeds the ardeur from Rafael she can feel all the wererats through him and knows that Hector is trying to keep her out because he has a secret that he doesn't want her to know but she knows because she is stronger than he knows.

When Anita goes to the arena to watch Hector and Rafael fight, there are those that don't want her there and they let her know it. She has to fight her way through a couple of people and when a whole bunch of rats show up, she remembers that she's kinda scared of the little furry creatures. Personally, I loved the scenes with all the rats. Anita surprises a lot of the wererats because she has magic that they didn't know about which makes a lot of them back down from confronting her. There are secrets that are revealed and some really great twists in this book.

This is the 28th book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series and I've been reading this series since the beginning. If you've been reading this series you already know what to expect but I would definitely start at the beginning because there are a lot of characters in this series and it will make more sense if you start with the first book.

Reviewer: Pamela K. Kinney
I gave Rafael 3 ½ weresheep
Rafael, king of the wererats, must fight to the death to defend his crown. He wants Anita Blake, one of his closest allies, with him as he faces an opponent unlike any he’s faced before. He will ask Anita to risk everything to be at his side.…

But some of the wererats fear that Rafael depends too much on Anita and her ties to the vampires. They believe that there is only room in America for one supernatural king, and Rafael will turn them into nothing more than food for the bloodsuckers.

Among his enemies, a new challenger has arisen who is younger, hungrier, and has dark secrets that could destroy both the wererats and the vampires. Rafael will go into the magical heart of his people to find the power and violence that he needs to save them all or die trying.

Anita Blake’s latest book has Rafael, king of the wererats, for the title. He asks Anita to be with him when he goes to fight the wererat who challenge him for the right to lead the wererats of America. The opponent is someone he thinks may be his son. But when Anita feels the opponent may have become another vampire’s animal to call, controlling the man, Rafael, knows he must beat the other wererat to save his people or die trying to do it.

I noticed that the Anita Blake books are mainly about her sleeping with all her men or a lot of talking. But after some of that in the beginning, this one got interesting to me. As someone who misses the first books in the series and enjoyed the Obsidian Butterfly novel, which was different after the way Anita was becoming, bringing back the old Anita, I feel this book halfway changed for the better.

About the Author:
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Laurell K. Hamilton is one of the leading writers of paranormal fiction. A #1 New York Times bestselling author, Hamilton writes the popular Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels and the Meredith Gentry series. She is also the creator of a bestselling comic book series based on her Anita Blake novels and published by Marvel Comics. Hamilton is a full-time writer and lives in the suburbs of St. Louis with her family.

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