9.) "it was a type of energy vampirism, but the laws hadn't caught up to it yet I'm not sure why not since the laws have caught up to witches and several of them have shown similar abilities in previous books - all of which where thoroughly judged by Ms Thang. The two that immediately jump to mind are the guy in New Mexico and the witches who changed shape (and gutted Zerbrowski. He hasn't been the same since. I think he might be dead and this is his zombie, animated by Anita and shambling around, doing Anita's bidding/dirty work/covering for her and traumatizing his widow & kids because Anita doesn't care about soft stuff like that. At least he's trying to provide for his never-quite-bereaved family.)
10.) Anita blathers for a page about her tone She's being deliberately irritating, she's in the wrong, and she knows it. Now come the childish, long-winded justification, like we'll forget that she was a jerk if she just keeps blabbing long enough. (Although I can't help but imagine the hand signals going about the room as the officers explain to each other in sign language why the hell she's frozen and staring at poor Billings with wide, empty eyes. That soft comment had nothing to do with staking three of the prisoners and everything to do with the fact that she's obviously lost it.
11.) Zerbrowski steps in then, because he's a good zombie servant. Also, he's probably sick to death of hearing Anita yammer at length about her amazingness, her kindness, her maturity, and her smokin' hot bod. He's just trying to move things along. (That's also how he just happens to always know what Anita wants/is going to do without exchanging words with her.)
12.) I do recall Anita saying vampire faces and stuff were different from humans. I don't remember specifically how New vamps still have human reactions and facial expressions. Also, they show their fangs a lot because they haven't learned the trick of hiding them yet. Older ones like JC and Co. are great at hiding their fangs... and everything else. They look like walking, talking mannikins unless they're making an effort. Interestingly, this complaint about JC's facial expressions both arrives and disappears in the same book - specifically, the one that Asher shows up in. (Hilariously, it shows up in the scene where JC and Asher are having thier Major Emotional Baggage Exchange In A Parking Lot/Jeep. So it might've just been JC having emotions that Anita can't interpret.) Prior to that, older vamps had facial expressions like everyone else and, like some people, some of them were better at masking their emotions than others. (I am looking at you, Nikky and JC.) After Blue Moon, JC hides nothing, ever. It saddens me. And no, JC never acted particularly inhuman in front of Anita. It was disappointing.
13.) Billings pushes him out of the way and grabs one of the vampires, a teen boy So it's wrong for Billings to be violent with the teenagers but it's cool for Anita to shoot them full of holes, stake them, and lop off their heads? Especially, as pointed out above, she wasn't certain that they were vampires, human servants, or even more than unfortunate victims in the wrong place at the wrong time when she started shooting at them.
They're all disgraces... except Perry and maybe Smith and Tammy Reynolds-Kirkland.
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I'm not sure why not since the laws have caught up to witches and several of them have shown similar abilities in previous books - all of which where thoroughly judged by Ms Thang. The two that immediately jump to mind are the guy in New Mexico and the witches who changed shape (and gutted Zerbrowski. He hasn't been the same since. I think he might be dead and this is his zombie, animated by Anita and shambling around, doing Anita's bidding/dirty work/covering for her and traumatizing his widow & kids because Anita doesn't care about soft stuff like that. At least he's trying to provide for his never-quite-bereaved family.)
10.) Anita blathers for a page about her tone
She's being deliberately irritating, she's in the wrong, and she knows it. Now come the childish, long-winded justification, like we'll forget that she was a jerk if she just keeps blabbing long enough. (Although I can't help but imagine the hand signals going about the room as the officers explain to each other in sign language why the hell she's frozen and staring at poor Billings with wide, empty eyes. That soft comment had nothing to do with staking three of the prisoners and everything to do with the fact that she's obviously lost it.
11.) Zerbrowski steps in then, because
he's a good zombie servant. Also, he's probably sick to death of hearing Anita yammer at length about her amazingness, her kindness, her maturity, and her smokin' hot bod. He's just trying to move things along. (That's also how he just happens to always know what Anita wants/is going to do without exchanging words with her.)
12.) I do recall Anita saying vampire faces and stuff were different from humans. I don't remember specifically how
New vamps still have human reactions and facial expressions. Also, they show their fangs a lot because they haven't learned the trick of hiding them yet. Older ones like JC and Co. are great at hiding their fangs... and everything else. They look like walking, talking mannikins unless they're making an effort. Interestingly, this complaint about JC's facial expressions both arrives and disappears in the same book - specifically, the one that Asher shows up in. (Hilariously, it shows up in the scene where JC and Asher are having thier Major Emotional Baggage Exchange In A Parking Lot/Jeep. So it might've just been JC having emotions that Anita can't interpret.) Prior to that, older vamps had facial expressions like everyone else and, like some people, some of them were better at masking their emotions than others. (I am looking at you, Nikky and JC.) After Blue Moon, JC hides nothing, ever. It saddens me. And no, JC never acted particularly inhuman in front of Anita. It was disappointing.
13.) Billings pushes him out of the way and grabs one of the vampires, a teen boy
So it's wrong for Billings to be violent with the teenagers but it's cool for Anita to shoot them full of holes, stake them, and lop off their heads? Especially, as pointed out above, she wasn't certain that they were vampires, human servants, or even more than unfortunate victims in the wrong place at the wrong time when she started shooting at them.
They're all disgraces... except Perry and maybe Smith and Tammy Reynolds-Kirkland.