All of the Anita Blake books have a set pattern to them, a formula if you like. We start off with Anita doing some business, either raising a zombie, which is her night job, or serving a warrant to Execute a Vampire, which is her day job. She then has trouble with her boyfriends, has to have sex with at least one stranger she may or may not ever see again, has to have sex with one or more of her many boyfriends, and along the way kills a few bad guys, until at the end of the book, that…