The "plot" of this latest in the Anita Blake series has degenerated to nothing more than a platform for bizarre sexual aberrations between a variety of "monsters," from lycanthropes to the biggest monster herself. Richard and Jean Claude are portrayed with the depth of cartoon caricatures, others about whom one might care are abandoned along the way (Damian), and the "cultural insights" that once made the glimpses into the worlds of lycanthropy and vampirism intriguing are so long dead that it's unlikely even a necromancer could resurrect them. But hey, you sure know what everyone is wearing.......