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Violence
A lot
Graphic zombie-raising scenes; vampire torture; horror elements throughout
Language
A lot
Strong language; the series has a hard-boiled detective voice
Sexual Content
Some
Sexual tension in early books; limited explicit content in Book 1
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Anita's psychological burden of raising the dead; moral grayness of her work; horror of the vampire power hierarchy
What this book is about
Anita Blake is a licensed zombie raiser and vampire hunter in St. Louis, where the undead have legal rights. The master vampire Nikolaos—who rules the city—wants Anita to investigate who's killing vampires. Guilty Pleasures launched one of urban fantasy's most influential series, establishing the template for the badass female protagonist in a supernatural-legal world.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Graphic horror—zombie raising, vampire violence
Strong language
Series becomes extremely sexually explicit from Book 8 onward—Book 1 is comparatively tame
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