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Chapter twenty one.

This is the last one for a bit as I have to return the book to the library.

Recap of last chapter: They had bad sex.

Have fucked each other senseless they all cuddle themselves to sleep. There's a long description on how exactly they are cuddled, descriptions like, "Nathaniel snuggled closer to me, as if he'd pressed his ass through me into Micah, but I didn't mind. I liked it close."

It takes three paragraphs to describe how they fell as sleep.

Then two sentences later, she wakes up. Looking around she sees a shadow. Just as she's about to scream a voice floats into her mind, telling her not to scream necromancer. Oh that's right. Anita's a necromancer. Duh. I completely forgot about it. Anita figures out who the shadow is.

"Who..." Then I smelled it; night. Night out of doors, night some place warm and soft with the scent of jasmine on the air. I knew who it was. "Marmee Noi" was the least rude of the nicknames the vampires called her. She was the Mother of All Darkness; she as the first vampire, and the ruler of their council, though she'd been in hibernation, or a coma, for more than a thousand years. The last time I'd seen her in a dream she'd been as bit as the ocean, as black as the space between the stars. She'd scared the shit out of me

I'm not really sure what night smells like. And I'm not really sure what language Marmee is. All I get from this paragraph is that she's supposed to be one scary mother fucker. Who's asleep. Not very threating that.

When Anita asks her why she's there Noi says because Anita interests her. Of course Anita interests her. Who isn't interested in Anita?

The reason why Anita interests her is because she might be able to wake her up after her long sleep. Of course.

Noi tells Anita that:

"Jean-Claude has still not made you his, still not crossed that last line with you. Until he does, another more powerful than he can take what is his, and finish it."

They talk for a bit more, Noi sort of whining about how she doesn't know how to be human any more and then she shows Anita her "true form"

She vanished; no she became the dark. She became the darkness in the room. One minute she was a central point, almost a body, the next she was the darkness. She hung in the dark of the room, and that darkness had weight and knowledge. I was like every other human who had ever huddled around the fire because they could feel the darkness pressing around them. Feel the darkness waiting for them. She didn't try to talk to me now, she simply was, not words, not even images, but something I had no words for. She simply was. A summer night does not talk to you, but it exists. The dark of a moonless night does not thing, but is alive with a thousand eyes, a thousand sounds. She was that night, with one addition: she could think. You don't want the dark to be able to think, because it won't think anything you wanted to know.

So Noi was dark? Like the night? I'm not sure, but I think that's what she's saying. I know that Hamilton is trying to reinforce the idea that Noi is dark -whatever that means- but the way she does it feels utterly redundant.

Getting drowned in the dark, she calls upon the wolf. Her wolf which chases Noi away.

So, this entire chapter? Utterly useless. I have a feeling we won't see Noi again, any more than we'll see Bella Morte. Then why this chapter? To prove how special Anita is. Also to set up drama for the next chapter when Anita loses control over her wolf.

Which'll have to wait for a while.

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I'm not sure if "Mommy Dearest", as Anita calls her, shows up again in this book or not, but she's appeared before and has a bigger role in The Harlequin. Honestly the thought of her waking up and having a series-ending showdown with Anita is the only thing that keeps me still reading the books.

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