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Book Title: The Laughing Corpse
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Genre: urban fantasy
Rating: 3/5

Summary (from book cover): "The older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it."

After a few centuries, the only death "big enough" is a human sacrifice. I know, because I'm an animator. My name is Anita Blake.

Working for Animators, Inc., is just a job – like selling insurance. But all the money in the world wasn't enough for me to take on the particular job Harold Gaynor was offering.

Somebody else did, though – a rogue animator. Now he's not just raising the dead... he's raising Hell.

And it's up to me to stop it...

My thoughts: I've read this second book of the series 'Anita Blake Vampire Slayer' without having finished the first one, Guilty Pleasures, which I have on e-book, a format I don't like that much. However, I hadn't difficulties on reading this one, since there's almost no link between the two of them, aside the fact that Anita possesses two marks that make her "human servant" of the vampire Jean-Claude, now the "Master of the City".

Told on the first person, this seems like a detectives' story, since Anita has to find out what, and who, is behind some violent deaths, while avoiding the millionaire Harold Gaynor and Dominga Salvador, who want to get Anita to use her powers as "animator", even if they have to threat her life to get her to do it.

The story isn't anything from another world, just like the writing which is also plain, but it entertains when there's nothing else to read. The gory description didn't bother me that much, as the characters descriptions did. The characters are too plain, even the character of Anita Blake, who although you can see her character growing, still bores and annoys me.