Rating: 
Summary: Let Me Tell You Why it Is 4 instead of 3
Review: At first I hated this book. I thought it was just like the last one, only Anita was willing to sleep with more guys. I know many fans that have followed this series feel that there is a little too much gratuitous sex. I was one of them.I started by re-reading all of the books starting with Guilty Pleasures and working my way up chronologically. I did this in 4 days, and let me tell you the character progression is there when you do it this way. Once Anita started sleeping with JC, this was a natural, it just gets lost when you have not currently read them all sequentially. The biggest problem I have is the lost characters that I loved. Edgar, Manny, the cast of animators. This book at least brought Dolph back in, but it has really been awhile since we had this much Zerboski and Dolph. What I have come to realize is that LKH has given such wonderful secondary characters that we have come to love an rely on, that is it hard to accept new characters because they take up plot development time, and it seems to take away from the characters we are used to. The books are becoming very "character heavy", but it is an ongoing series. I would recomend this book, but not as a starter, I would only read this series in order, or you will lose alot of it, and think that Anita is pretty trampy. If you like erotica, you will like this book by itself as well as Narcissus in Chains. Keep in mind that it is otherworldly erotica. I am very glad for the development that will keep Asher in the series as a primary character. Richard needs to grow up or go, I am sick of his histrionics. Go Jason!!! Loved what he said to Anita. I am giving this 4 stars instead of the 2-3 I originally planned because I did find the reason behind Anita's sleeping around, and it did seem to make sense. Again I highly recommend reading all of the books from start to finish if you were disapointed with this one. Good luck. If you are looking for a great vampire series, i would suggest Charlain Harris "Dead" series. They are wonderful. Kind of Stephanie Plum meets Anita.
Rating: 
Summary: disappointing
Review: Well, the book had all of the requisite Anita Blake plot point items. It's like she has a list - dead bodies, check. Police snarkiness, check. Vampire politics, check. Mystery, check. So she put the minimum amount necessary in for each required item, and then spent the rest of her pages on boring and pointless introspection. Nothing is better at the end of this book, and some things are much worse. The bones of a good novel are in there, but the way it's fleshed out, the character development, the action... Nothing hangs together. The times of day are all wrong. Going from one place to another takes too little time, or too much. It's like the editors just didn't care, or were too anxious to get the book on the shelves to insist on anything like a consistancy check. I know the author is capable of much better writing. I don't think I'll be buying her hardbacks until she returns to the level of quality she showed in Blue Moon and Obsidian Butterfly.
Rating: 
Summary: Lost the plot
Review: This is a very bad sequel to the previous books. This book appears almost to be two ideas badly stapled together and never really gels into a coherent story. It opens with a client interview and a graveyard scene, which look like the lead into a nice plot based story. However, it suddenly segues into a boring and not very novel vampires and sex story arc where the characters do little beyond have sex and threaten each other. Right at the end of the book it suddenly swerves back to the original plotline and suddenly introduces a bad guy to kill for end of the book. This is a poor book and I found it a boring read.
Rating: 
Summary: Ms. Hamilton continues to enthrall.
Review: 'Cerulean Sins' has delivered everything I was hoping for and more. I couldn't put it down. I love this book, I love the character development. If you haven't read the earlier books in this series, go back and do so. I continue to be amazed, each character has grown and changed so much. Each one impacting Anita's life, just like each person in my life impacts my decisions.
The titilating history between Jean Claude and Asher gets kicked up a notch in this book. Giving this reader, exactly what she'd been hoping to see. Anita exquisitely rides the fence of the moral dilemma she faces. While, Ms. Hamilton knows how to keep the sexual tension at a fever pitch and uses it to it's best advantage.
I for one, can't wait for the next book. The author hints that Richard and Anita are headed for something explosive, no matter which way the relationship turns. I'm sitting on the edge of my seat.
Thank you Ms. Hamilton.
Rating:
Summary: It could have been better . . .
Review: Cerulean Sins wasn't that entertaining. I've collect the entire series of AB books, but this book was the most uneventful novel. Anita's personal has become a disaster. Yes, the roles of the supporting characters around her have finally been defined, but I felt like I was in the middle of a sex therapy session instead of the usual LKH fiction. Everything from the usual crime mystery to the preternatural threat seemed VERY secondary to the main character's love life. And since that was the case, LKH's attempt to add the usual sub-plots (RPIT, the spook conspiracy) in the book seemed almost inconsequential and moot. Truthfully, it seems LKH has a problem eliminating the male characters she creates around Anita, the last and only other one being Phillip from Guilty Pleasures. This book has become more cluttered than NIC with relationship problems. LKH needs to start trimming away the male competition at some point. The cliche`, handsome men chasing Anita around is becoming monotonous.
Rating:
Summary: Wait for the paperback...believe you me!
Review: Unfortunately, it seems as if the popularity of this series has prompted Laurell Hamilton to write books that are increasingly less compelling. I used to wait impatiently for each new book to be written and become available - but, after reading the last two volumes and being very disappointed, I promised myself to save some $ and never buy a hardcover book in this series ever again! As you may have noticed, it seems that the passage of time for each book has decreased as well. I believe, in her attempts to "stretch" out the series, this book's events takes place over a matter of days...at most, a couple of weeks. I know this series is extremely popular...but this is ridiculous.
I didn't give this book a one star rating because I like Anita's character too much to go that low. But, if the next book is as poorly developed and lacking in substance, I will consider skipping a few books until the final book of the series is written. Of course, I realize that I may have to wait for many, many years if this book is any indication.
Rating: 
Summary: More Questions Than Answers
Review: Cerulean Sins almost seems to be the first half of a really good Anita Blake story. Future plot twists and character developments are liberally strewn about. But the mystery component never quite develops beyond the crime-scene walkthrough. The killer is identified in an almost off-hand manner, and the other 'bad guys' never pose a serious threat - we only know that there are 'men in black' looking to exploit Anita's talents. Other key elements seem rushed or underdeveloped. Dolph's problems have taken a sharp right turn and shaded over into psychosis; Richard's personal problems follow in the same vein - it's been several months since the events of 'Narcissus in Chains', and we're to believe that Anita didn't notice (or didn't care) about Richard's depressive state? What would happen if one third of the triumvirate offed himself? Wouldn't it be the job of Jamil, Shang-Da, or Sylvie to break their leader's wishes and get him the necessary help - even if that's from someone Richard doesn't particularly want to see? As for the extended adult content this time out, I'm not sure what to make of it. While it underscores the difference between humans and lukoi/pard/vampire ... Anita's world seems to have become a binary bedroom-or-boardroom sort of place. All in all, it's good to see old friends again, even if we're left with the feeling that the visit was cut short.
Rating:
Summary: Impressed
Review: Personally, I'm liked this last book, as for it being too sex oriented, can I say Narcissus??? The book still had a good plot, and it kept moving till the end. I think that she needs to loose some of the guy baggage, but, hey, shes ok with it.
Rating:
Summary: Talk about evolution
Review: I love how Anita has come around. She starts out being a bit self righteous in Guilty Pleasures, though hard as nails and sassy enough that we love her anyway. I love how through the series she is slowly "corrupted". She learns to trust and to give in to her feelings instead of playing the bad ass sociopath all of the time. It does bother me a little that her religion seems to have faded into the background, since it was such a huge part of her life before. Interesting how the cross doesn't glow around Jean Claude...
Anita seems like a more approachable character to me now. Maybe because some of her convictions have been compromised and some of her morals challenged. I do miss Ronnie and her "normal" life. I'm wondering if Edward ended up marrying fragile NM mom, it seems strange to me that he would have a domestic life.
Overall, I totally loved this book and can't wait for the next in the series. I'm way too addicted to Laurell K. Hamilton!
Rating:
Summary: Where's the mystery?
Review: I first started reading Anita Blake because of the mysteries in each book. Now there's just sex.
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