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Danse Macabre
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Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Book 14

Danse Macabre (2006) (edit title/settings)

by Laurell K. Hamilton (Author) (edit contributors)

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It was the middle of November, I was supposed to be out jogging, but instead I was sitting at my breakfast table talking about men, sex, werewolves, vampires, and that thing that most unmarried but sexually active women fear most...

Anita Blake needs to be concentrating on a dangerous... read more

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Danse Macabre sees a possible pregnancy threatening to derail her life, even as she prepares to help host several visiting Masters of the City in honor of the finale performance of the vampire ballet troupe Danse Macabre.

The evidence that Anita may become a shape-shifter is growing;... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Danse Macabre sees a possible pregnancy threatening to derail her life, even as she prepares to help host several visiting Masters of the City in honor of the finale performance of the vampire ballet troupe Danse Macabre.

The evidence that Anita may become a shape-shifter is growing; whether she will be wolf, lion, leopard, or something else is unknown. She resists changing shape by "giving her beast" to a lycanthrope. Because she can only give "her" lion to a werelion, this brings her into more contact with the local werelion pride.

Jean Claude and Anita determine that the ardeur is "seeking" food: specifically it may have shaped Anita's, Micah's, Nathaniel's, and Damian's personalities to make them more compatible partners for one another. It also encourages the visiting Master of the City of Chicago, who had been exiled by Belle Morte, to maneuver Anita and Jean Claude into feeding her ardeur on him. Anita is surprised that feeding on the Master of the City allows them to feed on his vampires and wereanimals as well.

In her personal life, Anita wrestles with her jealousy of her lovers taking other lovers, particularly in the case of Jean-Claude and Asher. She also accepts that she is a succubus and a vampire, in that she feeds off others.

Characters edit see section history

  • Anita Blake: Lead character, Animator,Necromancer, Vampire Executioner, Lupa and Bolverk of the Thronnos Rokke Clan, Nimir-Ra of the Blooddrinkers Clan
  • Jean-Claude: Vampire, Anita's flame, Master of the City, Animal to call is Wolf
  • Asher: Master Vampire, Second in command to Jean-Claude and manager of Circus of the Damned
  • Jason Schuyler: Werewolf, Jean-Claude's wolf to call, stripper, pomme de sang
  • Nathaniel Graison: Wereleopard, dates Anita, stripper, Anita's leopard to call
  • Claudia: Wererat, body guard
  • Requiem: Jean-Claude's third in command, master vampire
  • Valentina: Vampire, was Musette's helper and an expert torturer for Belle Morte. Was turned when she was still a child.
  • Richard Zeeman: Anita's sometime boyfriend and Ulfric of the Thronnos Rokke Clan, Werewolf, Junior High Science Teacher, Jean-Claude's animal to call
  • Micah Callahan: Wereleopard, Nimir-Raj of the Blood Drinker's Clan
  • Graham: Werewolf, Security at Guilty Pleasures
  • Clay: Werewolf, Body guard, head of security at Guilty Pleasures
  • Belle Morte: Master vampire, member of the Vampire Council, turned Jean Claude and Asher, as well as many of the other vampires that now claim allegiance to Jean Claude.
  • London: Master Vampire, Possible pomme de sang for Anita, can feed the ardeur every 2 hours, is addicted to the ardeur.
  • Augustine: Master of the City of Chicago, calls WereLions, human servant is Octavian. Also craves the touch of the ardeur.
  • Travis: Werelion of the local pride, contender for pomme de sang for Anita
  • Noel: Werelion of the local pride, contender for pomme de sang for Anita
  • Haven: Werelion of Chicago. Very dominant. Has blue hair and is sometimes referred to as "Cookie"
  • Dr. North: Anita's OB-GYN
  • Auggie AKA Augustine: a master vampire of city in Chicago
  • Damian: Anita's vampire servant part of her triumvirate.
  • Samuel: half siren and half vampire
  • Auggie / Augustine: Master vampire of Chicago who begets mischief.
  • Ronnie: anita's bestfriend
  • Pierce: Add a description of this character.
  • Thea
  • Joseph
  • Raina: ex lupa. dead.
  • Lisandro
  • Merlin: Head of the ballet troupe and an ancient vampire made by Marmee Noir.
  • Octavius
  • Ulfric: AKA Richard.
  • Julianna: Asher and Jean=Claude's lover. Also Asher's human servant
  • Thomas
  • Adonis: Beautiful dancer in with the ballet troupe.
  • Louie: a wererat and Ronnie's boyfriend
  • Mowgli: A lycanthropic disease.
  • Dr. Lillian: a wererat doctor
  • Willie
  • Vlad
  • Mary
  • Benny
  • Cristos
  • Fred
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “No, life isn't fair, but I try to be.”
    Anita
  • “Note to self, never play poker with master vamps.”
    Anita
  • “She is the reason that our ancestors huddled around the fire at night. She's why we fear the dark. She's a fear in the very fiber of our beings, something going back to the lizard part of us. We don't fear her because we fear the dark; we fear the dark because of her.”
    Anita Blake
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  • The practicalities of life do not cease needing to be done just because other things are going wrong.”
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  • Maybe it was that kind of love that seems to come quick, and leave slow, but in the middle it’s just fights, and pain, punctuated by great sex, until one of you has the courage to end it, and walk away.
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  • I’m happy behind my black wrought-iron fence. The one with the pointy spikes on top. White never really was my color.
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  • Leaving a little bit of sperm behind doesn’t make you a father. It’s what you do afterward,
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  • “it’s like trickle-down economics; it only works if the people at the top are really good, decent people. The system is only as good as the people in power.”
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  • I stood there between the two of them, and knew that I would do whatever it took to keep them safe, to keep them happy. I’d been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.
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  • ‘The moon’s an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.’” “You’re quoting something,” I said. “Shakespeare, ma petite. He’s quoting Timon of Athens.”
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  • “I love you,” he said. “I love you, too,” I said, and meant it. “I hate you, Anita,” he said, with almost no change in his voice. “I hate you, too, Richard,” I said, and I meant it.
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  • Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.”
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  • “Fib?” I made it a question. “Friends in bed, fib.”
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Setting & Locations edit see section history

St. Louis

First Sentence edit see section history

It was the middle of November.

Glossary edit see section history

  • Ulfric: the leader or alpha of a werewolf clan
  • Lupa: The female counterpart to the leader of a werewolf clan. Unlike the Nimr Ra/Raj, the Ulfric and lupa are not equals. The lupa is below the Ulfric in status.
  • Nimr Ra/Nimr Raj: leaders of a group of wereleopards. The Nimr Ra is the female counterpart to the Nimr Raj, the male.
  • ardeur: an intense sexual need that some vampires of Belle Morte's line carry. It needs to be fed regularly with sexual activity, can spread to others by touch, and while you are in the hold of it, you are not really in control of yourself. Jean-Claude holds the ardeur, as well as Anita. The ardeur is what causes them to be referred to as 'incubus' and 'succubus', respectively.
  • triumvirate: this is a specialized term within this series to refer to a grouping of a Master vampire, her/his human servant, and the Master's beast to call. Jean-Claude, Richard, and Anita are one triumvirate. Somewhat out of the rules, Anita, Damian, and Nathaniel are another triumvirate.
  • Ma Petite: In French it literaly means "my child" Jean Claude uses 'Ma Petite' as a term of endearment for Anita Blake"Petite" meaning small in French is maybe a reference to her size.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 14 of 24 in Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter. (standard series)

Preceded by Micah, and followed by The Harlequin.

This book is in Vampire (community list). (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Laurell K. Hamilton (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Craig White (artist) (Cover Artist)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Berkley Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0425207978
Page Count: 483

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3558.A443357 D36 2006
  • Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Sexually explicit contents

More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Arched Wing
  • Arched Wing (Arched Wing Series)

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Guilty Pleasures
  • The Laughing Corpse
  • Circus of the Damned
  • The Lunatic Cafe
  • Bloody Bones
  • The Killing Dance
  • Burnt Offerings
  • Blue Moon
  • Obsidian Butterfly
  • Narcissus in Chains
  • Cerulean Sins
  • Incubus Dreams
  • Micah

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