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Summary: What Happened to Anita
Review: While the book was well written, it lacked the kick butt Anita that we all know and love. This book was way too much sex, politics and the ardeur. Anita used to have morals, and now she seems to be sleeping with everyone. Please have Anita go back to the old Anita. As a fan, my wife and I couldn't wait for the new book to be released, but we are both disappointed with this story. Ms Hamilton seems to be confusing Anita with Mary from the Fairy series. Let's get Anita back on track, and be the old kick-butt, monster killer. The story would have been better if she had been tracking the killer the whole time, and dealing with the vampires as a side story as in the earlier books.
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Summary: Enough with the prattle and self-obesssion "Anita"
Review: Gratuitous sex. So much that you begin to skip the scenes and look for the meat of the book, which you will find lacking. A fan of Anita Blake back from the first printing of Guilty Pleasures, this book was almost abhorrent to me. Literally just becoming a platform for a supernatural cocktail and the author's idealized version of herself, we lose the vibrant personality of "Anita" that we heard in the first book. There is no tension, everything works out in the end with no one for the worse and yet another bad-monkey conquered. There is no chance of death because Anita -always- wins. She doesn't suffer any true casualties. Hey, why NOT kill off Richard, or Jean-Claude, or Asher.Overdone and you can almost pick the overused lines from each of her books. This is just sex + lines from other books. Nothing new here.
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Summary: What the heck is going on?!
Review: This series has gone berserk! I love the police drama of the Anita Blake books but Anita has become a nympho and that is the main focus of these books now. Anita just has sex. This book should have focused more on Dolph's breakdown, Anita's work, and the occasional vampire story line. Edward was missing, which was also a disappointment. I still loved the book but there was too much going on with the ardeur. I want more drama and I don't think Anita should find that she can no longer take violence. We the readers love Anita because she is tough and takes little help. I don't want Anita to become antoher dependent, female stereotype.
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Summary: Still loving Anita and company
Review: Though this is not the best of the Anita Blake series I did enjoy this book alot. One reason I think I liked it so much is that it reminded me of Burnt Offerings, my favorite of all the Anita books. Also there are a lot of tender moments between Anita and Jaun Claude that makes you feel thier love very much. I never tire of the secondery characters in this series and this book is no exception. When I finished the book I was craving more.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I do not understand why so many people are giving such a horrible review for this wonderful book. I LOVE every single book in this series, and each one keeps getting better and better. Anita has developed both mentally and emotionally, and so has almost everyone around her (everyone except Richard, who I see no hope for at all, and that doesn't bother me.) This book is very fast paced and edgy.
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Summary: Another great book!!!
Review: I have read all the LKH books and love each one for what it contains (and not what may be left out). This book follows her well proven formula for success and with it, she succeeds again. I think my favorite things about LKH books is that #1 she makes me fall in love with all the "good guys" and truly hate the "bad guys" and #2 I am from St. Louis, so any mention of landmarks, streets, etc. are not lost on me. This is a fun read. I can't wait for the next book to come out!!!
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Summary: I thought it couldn't get any worst
Review: I was so wrong. If you have read the previous reviews, then you may see a pattern forming. If you liked Narcisus in Chains then you will love this book. In point of fact it's apparent the author is happy with the direction the character developement is going. I am not. One of my favorite characters, Richard the nice guy turned badass self loathing alpha werewolf, is as angst ridden as ever, suicidal and pining away for Anita. The way she killed this character is just utterly derpressing. I miss the old Anita, the one with some morals. She still kicked [hiney], and the blossoming sexuality in the books isn't too bad. But my god! Richard is a neurotic and damn near suicidal. Anita practically runs the city, as she is this Federal Marshal now with powers over the police apparently. I can't read this anymore. The love triangle was a great, but now it's just deteriorated to this mess of everyone loving Blake. It's everything that I hated in NIC, and more. I am glad I didn't buy this book, and sorry that I read it. My favorite characters are reduced to subserviant suicide watch victims. It's sad. Those of you that like the direction the series is going, enjoy. I for one hate this.
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Summary: Good Grief
Review: I have read and loved all the Anita Blake novels. I have always liked Anita's moral conumdrums and the fact that there were no neat answers. I enjoyed watching her raise a graveyard of zombies. I liked her physically tough and emotionally unsure personality. She was true to her friends both human and monster. But is there a solid story line here?? I could not discern one. She seems to run from raping and using the people who depend on her to behaving like a mean spirited slut. The are no new issues in this book. Everything is recycled and tied together with so much sex I am surprised that Miss Blake can still walk. Can we PLEASE get our old heroine back?
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Summary: Psycho Anita
Review: In this latest installment of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series we find our heroine once again confronting a phethora of challenges. Early in the novel she gets sucked into vampire politics with the visit to St. Louis of Musette, the scary enforcer of the vampire godfather Belle Morte. Without pausing to take a breath, Anita is summoned to a police investigation of a series of gruesome murders which gets complicated by her recent appointment as a federal marshal. Anita then finds herself being stalked by international terrorists who are trying to recruit her into a nefarious plot sponsored by a secret government agency. Finally we find Anita solving the crime and dealing with a renegade lycanthrope who is connected to most of the problems seen throughout the novel. All the while, she has to deal with her own and everyone else's emotional and psychological baggage. This sounds like a great plot but the problem is that it's all been done before, and done better. The vampire banquet is similar to the one in Burnt Offerings. The stalking of Anita by bad guys was done better in The Killing Dance. The tedious orgies of the ardeur were first seen in Narcissus in Chains and have become tiresome. Anita herself has further descended into amorality when she almost shoots a client in her office and then cruelly mocks and denigrates a grieving widow whose spouse she must raise as a zombie. She completely abuses her authority as a federal marshal and behaves unprofessionally. Most of all, she has lost her sense of humor. The Anita Blake of previous novels was a gifted and attractive young woman with a sharp wit. Her former fiance, alpha werewolf Richard Zeeman, is dead-on correct that Anita has become more of a monster than any of them. In Cerulean Sins, we see Anita as a humorless, paranoid psychotic. Anita continues to have a lot of good friends that she fails to appreciate or even thank. She could be very happily married to a more stable Richard if she could just compromise a little and be supportive instead of confrontational and cruel. Anita handicaps herself by her win-at-any-cost, my-way-or-the-highway style. Thankfully the reappearance of several minor characters greatly helps the novel. The delightfully humorous police sergeant Zerbrowski provides a satisfying counterbalance to the implausible and painful emotional meltdown of his boss, Dolph Storr. The wererat bodyguards Bobby Lee and Claudia provide a pleasant counterbalance to the awkward Anita. Werewolf friend Jason is much more mature and delightfully perceptive. Narcissus in Chains told us that Anita had been appointed head of a new panel of representatives from each of the shapeshifter groups. But there is no mention of this in Cerulean Sins. After reading Narcissus in Chains, I was very much looking forward to seeing what would happen with this new shapeshifter panel but the teaser has been completely ignored. Perhaps Cerulean Sins is not as bad as I've depicted. It had the potential of being very good indeed but is hampered by the sheer implausibility of several issues such as Dolph's meltdown and Anita's grossly unprofessional behavior. There is also no beauty in the relationships such as what we saw between Anita and Richard in Lunatic Cafe and The Killing Dance, or between her friend Ronnie and her wererat boyfriend Louie, or between fellow animator Larry and police detective Tammy Reynolds. Readers would be well-advised to wait for the paperback.
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Summary: Too Much!!!!!!!!
Review: I love Anita Blake but this book pushes it. Sex is fine, hell, sex is great... but there was little to no plot in this book, it is all sex. The storyline with Dolph's breakdown was cool ans so was Jason and Asher but that's about all. JC becomes a Master Master vampire and Asher learns some new tricks. The Mother of All Darkness is introduced and Belle Morte is sort of in town. Sounds cool, huh? Well it would have been if she spent some time developing these plot lines rather than having Anita screw anything with a heartbeat. Read the first book and tell me you can believe Anita as the village .... Very dissapointed, though it does seem this book sets up a plot for the future books that seems very promising.
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