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Summary: WOW !! WOW !! WOW!!
Review: I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed this book. I've seen some people have been upset with how the series is going. I disagree, It may not be for everyone (gets pretty steamy)but I
do believe that Anita is still in her heart the same character.
Of course she is changing, but who wouldn't. Not everything is black and white. Sometimes good people do bad things.And so what if she's been a little busy in the bedroom, give her a break a girl's gotta have some fun, she's had a hard life with everybody trying to kill her all the time. Also, I am really enjoying the interaction between Anita and her pard, it's like the family (although disfunctional) she hasn't really had. Alot of people may disagree but this relationship is Anita at her best, she made them a home. The new thing with Damian ought to be interesting too. It was a great book, love the series, can't wait for the next one, hope Laurell keeps up the wonderful work.
Enjoy!!
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Summary: GREAT!!
Review: I don't know why so many people are so diappointed in this book, it was EXCELLANT. The sex seems to be necessray due to the evolution of Anita's character. It's not like she is just jumping everyone, it is the "ardeur". I also hope something does happen with Asher, I'm sick of Richard and I don't like Micah. I can't wait to see what happens next.
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Summary: Feminist Role Model? HARDLY!!
Review: Anita used to be a really cool character. A female character, that was strong and brave. She had a fierce personal code that applied to her professional life, and her sex life (what a wonderful novelty in most novels). And she had a vulnerability that was touching. She loses that a bit more with each book, and now its gone forever with this book. Characters have to grow, you say? Sure they do. Problem is Anita morphed into something utterly unlikeable. Now she's Anita, most powerful EVERYTHING in the universe, every creature bows before her incredible power, and men are just lined up to worship her. Actually, everyone worships her, and if you don't...you get spit on and banished from the books like poor Richard (run while you can Jean-Claude, you're probably next). Oh yes, she still can beat up all manners of creatures, and with each book she becomes a colder and more vicious killer-how inspiring...NOT. In my world, that doesn't come close to making her a positive female character. In fact, just the opposite. Any stupid bully can beat [up] people or pull a trigger. And giving her all this magical power just means she no longer has need to actually use her brain. I frankly don't understand how anyone can read this book with its "ardeur" garbage, and not be incredibly offended...especially women. Anita had morals when it comes to sex....not anymore, lets give her this curse that makes it impossible to resist sex. What next? A curse that makes it impossible to keep her clothes on? Why have Anita take responsibility for her sexlife when you can just remove her freedom of choice, and put in plenty of meaningless and badly written sex scenes? (Hilariously, this author is quoted as saying that writing sex scenes is one of her strengths LOL) Way to go LKH, a stunning feminist statement if ever I heard one. And of course there are no other intelligent females within spitting distance of Anita. Perish the thought ! Every other female has to be weak, or judgemental, or a victim...we even have the prerequistie lesbian (whatever is takes to keep ever male character in Anita's web). Ugh, its nauseating. A strong female character doesn't offend me, I love them. But someone like Anita Blake being passed off as a strong female character....thats a joke, and an insulting one at that.
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Summary: Disappointed but hopeful
Review: Was I disappointed by this book? Yes. But it is hard to dismiss an old favorite that easily. Meeting familiar characters acting so unfamiliarly is very disconcerting. But the thrill of seeing the strange cast of Anita Blake series again cushioned the disappointment. If you like the series, you would read this book anyway and wait to see how things progress in Cerulean Sins coming in April 2003. If you haven't read any others in this series, better to start at the beginning. Then you can understand why this is not my favorite in the series,
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Summary: Anita starts to grow up
Review: First of all I love this series. Jean Claude is great I liked the way his temper flared at Anita, because sometimes there is no pleasing her. Next Richard needs to become a true leader and stop being so soft. Anita was just Anita annoying but funny.
The sex in this book was soft porn, but I liked it anyway. I think the plot was a little thin but the sex and violence made up for it and made it interesting. The new people and development of others could make for interesting reading in books to come. If you like Anita you may also like Merry Gentry Laurell's other series. Enjoy!!
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Summary: One angry and childish woman
Review: Maybe if I had read the other 9 books featuring character Anita Blake before this one I could get a better grip on just why this woman becomes violently angry in every other paragraph. In this particular book when she isn't having sex in some form or other with the main male characters, she's threatening to shoot them. I found the Anita Blake character and this book childish and rather melodramatic. Considering the subject line you'd have thought there would have been more meat on the bone as the saying goes but alas the was no real plot to follow unless the ardeur was to supply that also.
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Summary: Simply Porn
Review: I fully agree with the many reviewers who say this series -- which started out great -- has degenerated into nothing more than a vehicle for LKH to try and write porn. Many of us hoped that her "Kiss of Shadows" series would satisfy this unfortunate desire of hers to write smut but apparently it has not. And she is ruining what was such a wonderful series. Anita Blake was a young, tough, smart woman who was also a Vampire Executioner and Necromancer. She had a smart mouth, was funny and insightful. She even managed to have morals and standards within her strange situations. What's not to like? Why ruin a good thing -- and call it "charactor development"?? Because Anita IS ruined. It's almost as if LKH was writing backwards and instead of improving, she's getting worse. NiC hardly had a plot at all. This problem is most noticable in the last few books. Does a plot get in the way of LKH writing porn? Apparently. The final scene was so rushed and slapped together it appeared as an addendum, not the final slam-bang ending. And she wound up all the issues that had run through the entire over-long book in the epilog! Was Anita really going to be "furry" at the full moon? What about Richard? Was she going to be kicked out of the werewolf pack (and, by the way, is EVERYone in St. Louis a were-something? It must be quite an event every full moon) Can JC accept Anita being a total slut? All these things were dragged endlessly through the book and were dealt with in 2 pages. Reeeaaallly bad. Does Ms. Hamilton read reviews? Does she notice that her readership is unhappy? Does she give a rats behind? If she really wants to write porn, she should do it. But not in an existing series that was not designed for it and is not benefiting from it. Check the book out of the library but don't waste your money.
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Summary: Anita, Powerpuff Girl?
Review: The 10th book in the Anita Blake-Vampire Hunter series continues the disturbing trend of the last few books, especially the last 2, of heaping ridiculous power after ridiculous power onto Anita Blake. Thats fine if you're into reading comic books heroines that leap tall buildings in a single bound and "kick-...", but if you are looking for complex, mature, human females, you're probably going to want to skip these books from here on out. Anita doesn't even remotely resemble one anymore. I gave the book 2 stars for the marrying of the marks in the beginning....a start that promised a better book then delivered, and Jean-Claude finally losing his temper with the childish Anita.
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Summary: This one should have been subtitled "Bondage and Orgies"
Review: Don't buy this one unless it for the (...) writing. Borrow it and skim for plot. I skipped most of the first half of Narcissus in Chains looking for plot before I found something interesting. The book was decent after it finally got moving, but there isn't a lot of actual story here. Its mostly just a (...) book centered around Blake's love life. ( Is anyone else out there sick of Blake's love(...) life and ready for the plot to move a bit? Richard or Jean Claude, Jean Claude or Richard, now its Richard, Jean Claude, Micah, and Nathaniel. Should we add Asher and Damian as well? When did this character go from being the scourge of vampires to floozy? ) This series is hit and miss for me. I'm not a really big fan of romance or (...) books so some of the novels annoy me. I started reading the Anita Blake books because I liked Anita Blake. She was relatively believable in her reactions to things, smart, fierce, and the plot was different from most I've read. I'm hoping the author will finally start resolving some things in the next book. I want to see Blake in action again solving crimes, kicking (...) and rediscovering a sense of control and restraint.
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Summary: anita's only getting better!
Review: i have loved the anita blake series since my freind loaned me book 1 and i can't get enough of anita blake and her men. if only real life could be this interesting. anita still kicks major ... in this novel while her personal life gets more complicated than it was before(sorry some people think that's boring).the evovolution of the main character is what's supposed to hapeened in a series like this and that's why we keep reading it. as far as her annoying views go: on her own life well it's a story and hers is complicated(you try to deal with what's happened to her)i still loved the book and will continue to read and recommend it to everyone i possibly can. i can't wait to see what happens next, and not a lot of books these days have the loyal following anita does. the story is solid in the same type of adventure/monster hunting of the series and continues on from the earlier books(maybe that's why others got confused)
i usually get my books from the libary, but i ran to the store when i heard it was out and paid full price for the hard back version of this book and never blinked. my 2 friends fought over who got to read it next.
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