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Summary: The Anita Blake series goes from strength to strength
Review: Being a huge fan of LKH and the Anita Blake books, Cerulean Sins was a must read for me and I wasn't disappointed...much. While CS follows the seemingly departure of NIC, all in all Hamilton's characters remain true to form. Anita is still Anita with all of her flaws and all that makes her fantastic. Some of the supporting characters step up and are fleshed out a bit more and we learn more about Asher and Jean-Claude. Richard continues to annoy me to no end until the end when I become intrigued because he finally seems to get it. And Jason, well that's one wolf that seems to be coming into his own. Overall, another hit. My only complaint is that the end seemed rushed. It was as if there was so much more to the story that got edited out to fit into a required number of pages. Whether this is true or not, only LKH and her publishing house can speak to. But when the last page turned I was again left wanting more. Well done!
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Summary: A walk on the dark side...
Review: Anita's once again in the middle of some heavy vampire politics. She's still trying to work out just what her relationship is with all the men in her life, including Asher. Works been busy. Old friendships are wavering. And to top it off, Anita has met the mother of all dark mothers...not a fun experience in the least. Anita Blake is a complex, compelling character whose stories always keep me guessing. And, as always, with Cerulean Sins, Laurell K. Hamilton gives a page-turning read as she mixes a satisfying dose of Anita's personal and public problems.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: I have always been a fan of this series, but it has gone down hill during the last two books and I am begining to lose hope of improvement. I thought NIC had been a step down in qaulity, but this one was worse. Any hint of a solid plot and strong in depth characters have been given up in favor of sex, sex, and more sex. I don't mind it here and there but if that is what I wanted to read I would buy the dime a dozen grocery store variety. This book is definatly not worth being bought in hard cover. Wait till it comes out in paperback. What happened to the idea of a good story?
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Summary: Still good, but curiously lacking...
Review: I find the Anita Blake Series to be incredibly diverting and all are good reads, however, I was not so pleased with this particular book. Cerulean Sins starts with a particular plotline (which begins on the very first page)and then does not procede to follow that plotline. It completely disappears until the last two pages or so of the book and then only to brush it aside, in what seems like a ploy to explain away a failed plotline. It is almost as if the author started with one idea, got bored, and changed to a different idea. Do not get me wrong, I did enjoy the book, and was terribly happy to see many of the things I have waited for come about ( I won't say what, that'd spoil them). There was also the small matter of the fact that much of this book bordered on soft literary porn. Some sex is fine, but this is a little much. Anita was boffing someone new every five pages, it seemed. I felt the plotline suffered. I miss all the blow-up fights in which Anita kicked ... and gained funky new powers. There were some, but they just didn't have the old kick. I miss a lot of the old characters too. Larry was there peripherally, Gtephen and Gregory poked their heads in, but their storyline was kind of brushed off, her boss and her job were their in the beginning and then disappeared. Lets get a little of Anita's non-vampire life into the picture next time. Nonetheless, it was enjoyable, and I look forward to the next one. Here's hoping for a little appearance by Edward!
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Summary: just gets better and better
Review: In most series, the title character remains fairly static--they are agents of change, but do not change themselves. The remarkable think about Hamilton's Anita Blake is the way that she has changed dramatically over the course of the series. In each book in the series, Anita seems to find herself compelled or seduced to "cross the line," whether ethical, or (in this book) sexual. And each step brings her closer to the monsters she once feared, hated, and hunted. This far into the series, she has become so close to the "monsters" that she is beginning to have serious difficulty relating to normal human beings (and vice-versa). I have no idea where Hamilton is going with this, but it adds an edge to the series that makes it very different from any other that I've read. In this book, Hamilton lays in some foreshadowing about her own "Queen of the Damned." There's even a child vampire. Yet there is not much of an echo of Rice. Hamilton's vampires are very different from Rice's--and in many ways, more disturbing. There are a few loose ends in the plotting. A subplot regarding a serial killer is tied up a bit awkwardly at the end--it seems to exist mainly to display the tension between Anita and her human friends on the police force, but it doesn't integrate that well into the plot. This book continues the explicit sex of the last few. This is clearly fundamental to where Hamilton is taking the series, and important to the "seduction of Anita" but some may find it more disturbing than the violence.
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Summary: One of the Best!
Review: This has to be one of the best Anita Blake books ever! I love that Asher played a bigger part in this book. No complaints.
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Summary: Could she have more sex, please?
Review: Of all the Anita Blake books, I found this one to be the most disappointing. I have read the entire series, and I feel that the series started to fall apart aound the same time she slept with Richard in Blue Moon. The endings seem rushed, and there are too many sub-plots to ever really wrap the books up nicely.
That said- it bothers me that now it is alright for her to just jump anything in sight. Part of what was so fun about the earlier books was it was just Anita, there wasn't a penis on hand at all times. I think the ardeur was really only an excuse to add an extraneous sex scene here and there. The book could have been good, as with the last couple books (not including obsidian butterfly- best one since bloody bones) the general idea of the plot was good, but execution was faulty. I am disappointed that I spent the money on this book that I did.
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Summary: diasappointed
Review: It's easy to be picky when I didn't have to do the work of writing but....
This was not the best, or as good as I had hoped. I do think it has introduced more characters and that perhaps the next book will be great. I was left feeling a sort of wait for it. The last few pages were a really frantic wrap up, as if it needed to be finished NOW. There are characters from previous books I would like to see revisited, like Otto from Butterfly. I thought the plot was thin, and if there must be so much sex it was not as well done as in Narcissus. But it was nice to see Jason and Asher in more detail. Anita's suffering is getting tiresome. Her always saying 'Sorry I didn't know', stopping to argue over morals when the plot needs to move on or dawn is coming.Let Richard do all that kind of stuff, that's his character.
I'll continue to buy, but I won't rush for a hard back again.
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Summary: back to alternate reality
Review: whew!!! this book saved the series from the flaming downward spiral that was Narcissus in Chains. still too much focus on the sex and not the story for my tastes, but i've been told by other fans that they consider the books romance/horror crossover. still, loved this one. four out of five because nothing has equalled Blue Moon (imo).
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Summary: Not up to par
Review: I must say, that CS was a disappointment. You wade through a truck load of emotional hodge podge to get to nothing. The plot was incoherent, and there was no real character development. I feel that Anita is becoming such a weak character. She really is losing her sense of self. And it's just such a sudden illogical change. One moment she's superwoman and the next she's a weeping damsel in distress. The plot is getting so immersed in this emotional garbage and sex that it's just plane boring. It's abosolutely ridiculous! After plowing through a whole book of this in NiC, you would expect something spectacular, but no.
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