I never needed it anyway, right?

Anita Blake Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

*she has sex (shush)
*someone is jealous of her
*the eyes are described in ridiculous Sue Terms.
*Richard objects to something and Anita shoots him down.
*a male is described in horrible 1980s clothes.
*one of Anita's special powers is mentioned.
*someone mentions the term "lion king."
*the phrase "tight" or "wet" shows up.
*long hair is mentioned on males. Two if it's Nathaniel.
*the word "ardeur" or "arduer" appears
*Anita mentions how much she loves oral sex.
*she mentions her homophobia.
*Jean-Claude infodumps
*Jean-Claude somehow manages to pull off that look
*Ruffles are mentioned on Jean-Claude
*someone changes from human to animal form
*she focuses on the size of a guy's cock
*someone calls her The Executioner
*Richard threatens to kill Jean-Claude
*there's bondage.
*Anita acts like a dominatrix but says she's not into it.
*she shags more than one man at once (one drink for each participant over two).
*the plot makes absolutely no sense.
*you could swear a male character acts like a flaming gay, but they STILL want Anita.
*a female character is made to look bad in comparison to Anita
* Excessive description of what someone is wearing.
*the word "metaphysical" appears.
\~/ Right then. Drinks at the ready?


( And what goes after the liver? )

More sex lives of the rich and furry.

Chapter four



Anita and her entourage go down the stairs and run into Clay a werewolf and bodyguard. Clay wants to know where Jean-Claude is. As mentioned in the previous chapter he is off dealing with his third in command. Things are getting rough because there's a room full of guests and only five bodyguards.

For some unexplained reason, "[They] aren't even allowed to offer refreshments without one of the dominants being present". \~/ Why would a dominant need to be present to offer refreshments. It's a silly rule, especially when situations like this might come up. Serving refreshments should happen as a mater of course. It keeps the guests happy and distracted from the fact that their hosts aren't there. Micah wants to know if this is upsetting Clay because they're being bad hosts. Well duh. It takes Clay a moment to think about that one. \~/

We then get our obligatory description of what Clay looks like.

Clay was as tall as Graham, but his hair was blond, curly and careless. Where Graham took time and attention with his appearance, Clay just didn't seem to care. He wasn't sloppy, just comfortable. He was wearing the same black on black outfit, but he'd put on black jogging shoes with his slacks,not dress shoes. He looked good, but a little uncomfortable out of his jeans.

\~/ All this constant referencing to other characters in regards to peoples' looks reminds me of how in bad fan fics they're always so and so looks like so and so but with longer hair and green eyes instead of brown. Personally, I don't remember how tall Graham really is, so telling me Clay is as tall as him doesn't mean anything to me. Better to give each character their own description without referencing the other, unless the two of them are being introduced together.

Clay lets them know that it feels like it could go south at any moment. Anita wants to check out what's up with Jean-Claude, Asher and Meng Die using their telepathic link, but apparently that's a bad idea because the other Masters might be able to learn about Anita's powers and/or listen in on their conversation. This is called a plot device. The book was written in 2006 and gives no indication of the time period, so it's just as reasonable that Anita could call up Jean-Claude on his cell phone. Of course, no one seems to have those sort of things and the time is ambiguous so perhaps they are still pre-cell phone days. Still some sense of era would be nice, so I don't have to wonder about such things as why don't they have cell phones. \~/

Instead of moving the plot forward, there's some more talking about Meng-Die and her unhappy sex life with these guys who had to sleep with Anita and this other guy who stopped sleeping with Meng-Die and that made her unhappy and Clay thought that Meng-Die loves him but it turns out she didn't... or something. \~/\~/\~/ I'm sure this has some bearing on the plot, but I'm not sure what.

To bring this all back to Anita, because it always comes back to Anita, it turns out that all the Masters of the City that are coming to visit are brining in candidates for Anita's new pomegranate. Which means to try them out, she'll need to have sex with all the candidates. As she explains:

It was my own damn fault. I hadn't chosen from any of the local talent. I had also expressed my concern about bringing this many Masters of the City into our territory. It just didn't sound safe to me. So Elinore, one of our new British vamps, had an idea. A wonderfully, awful idea. Since Masters of the City were coming from all over the United States, why didn't we have a sort of contest? The Masters could bring some candidates for my new pomme de sang

\~/\~/ Because really, that's the only way to make it safe. And even if they do, how do you know they're not going to be sabotaging each other to give themselves a better chance. In fact, I think such a contest would make things worse because of that contest. After all, it'd be allying themselves with a pretty strong individual. Such a contest is just asking for trouble. Better that they just pray that the incoming Vampires would be on their best behavior than anything else. \~/

Instead, we've just found a way for Anita to have massive amounts of random sex for "a good purpose". Which is, of course, the only reason for this novel. \~/

There's another mention of Nathaniel's lavender eyes \~/ before they walk into the room with the two waiting Masters with Anita all a jitter. I'd feel for her, but I just don't like her.

Short tonight, but that's okay. I'm sleepy.

Total Drinks: eleven