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Summary: Good Stuff!
Review: A friend of mine turned me on to this series, and I'm glad she did.
This is a really good series. It's sci-fi, with lots of vampire & were-creature action, with some nice erotica thrown in.
I just wish she would release pics of the 2 main men in Anita's life.....
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Summary: Straight Through
Review: I would have to say that I love this series and I haven't been able to put it down. It brings you into a woman's life who is anything but normal. If you like crime novels and supernatural novels you will love these. I like the fact that the author also knows about the local area she is writing about.
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Summary: Avoid This Series
Review: It's taking me over a half a year to get through the first book of this series. It is badly written, has no characterization, deals with cliche`s and makes me care about the main character as much as I care about the wrapper from a stick of gum. The entire book could have been written in one chapter.
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Summary: Strong Woman,Vampires and Werewolves
Review: Laurell shows her readers what it's like to be strong in wills and mind, yet still be confused about your love life. I mean what woman like Anta Blake, a vampire executioner and necromancer, can say she has 2 non-human men after her heart. This set will get you well on your way to an addiction to LKH's books, as well as with her characters...Jean Claude, an older than 200 years vampire after Anita Blakes heart. Richard, a werewolf with a heart of gold and a ton of compassion. And Anita herself, a woman who's use of firearms probably amazes even the military,who's life consists of battling unknown creatures,dealing with a strange life, and some of this before her first cup of coffee!
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Summary: uneven but worth reading
Review: Okay first off, I'll admit coming to these early LKH novels by reading her later stuff. In some ways these are an excellent perspective on seeing a writer grow as she writes through the years. LKH is excellent at world building and characters, but her actual technique and plots are not always the best, especially earlier on. She has a bad tendency to repeat descriptives within the same book. Say on page 27, someone has dark flowing hair, that shone... so on and so on, well guess what, on page 97, they do too.
Now all this may make it sound like I don't like her work, which is not the case. She creates truly marvelous worlds and wonderful characters that are worth (to me) going through the rest of it, and she has improved technically since these books. So I would say honestly, go ahead and read her Fae/Merry Gentry books first. Those are further along in her process, if you enjoy those, then go back and read these. It's an interesting exercise as well as enjoyment in a new world that she created.
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Summary: Value for money
Review: Pound for Pound this set is going to entertain as well as any.Anita Blake is as quick with her gun as she is with her mouth, she never takes a step backward against ancient powerful vampires or the local detectives ribbing her. These first four books are argueably the best in the Anita Blake series where LKH's imagination and world are brought to life. If you enjoy murder mystery, action and intrigue in large quantities you will love this series. Be warned if you do start reading these books there are seven more at the time of this review and you will not be able to resist reading them all once you start.
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Summary: the best of Blake
Review: These are the first four Anita Blake books, before Hamilton went off the rails with the S&M stuff. (One of the later books is titled Narcissus In Chains. There is a reason why.) Anita isn't the unstoppable ubermonster she later becomes. She changes during the course of the books, positively in some ways, negatively in others. (Mostly, she starts on a trip down a certain river in Egypt wrt her two boyfriends. The last line of Circus of the Damned: "Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human." Nor is her sex life the only thng she's in denial about.) Character development is _not_ in short supply. Not only does Anita change, but so do most of the supporting characters. (Except, of course, for those who get killed off. And as this is a series of books about vapmires, werewolves, and zombies, being dead doesn't necessarily mean you're written out of the series.) In these books Anita starts as an ordinary zombie queen (she prefers 'animator') who's a consultant for the St. Louis police as well. Except that it's established in the very first chapter of the very first book that she's not quite as ordinary as she thinks she is. Think of that chapter as the headwaters of the Nile. By the end of The Lunatic Cafe it's clear to all (except her) that she's _way_ more than ordinary. An ordinary zombie queen would have been long since dead. Permenently. In addition to vampires, ghouls, flesh-eating revanant zombies, hostile zombie queens, werewolves, wereleopards, wererats and other weres, and necormancers, Anita has her problems with just plain humans with guns. Anita's got guns of her own and knows the Master (vampire) of the City and the local alpha werewolf very well indeed (see that last line of Circus of the Damned) and has friends in the local police and another, well, 'friend' may be too strong a word, who likes to give her UZI submachineguns as gifts. There is a _lot_ of action to go with the character development. Those who don't like blood should stay clear. (Those who don't like kinky sex should avoid the last two books...)
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Summary: Straight Through
Review: These first four Anita Blakes were the best in the series, so putting these for a group sale together was good thinking from an author going bad. Most people read vampire novels to read about vampires, not about the extreme sexuality that plagues the later novels and rid's them of an even relatively good plot line. The beginning 4 novels in the series are filled with intense character's who almost always draw you in, even the heroine Blake does a relatively good job in these books of maintaining her renowned status. The best part about these installments in the Blake books are the muder mysteries that are incorporated with her police identity. Hamilton does a good job of pulling the reader's in with intense and interesting stories filled with supernatural politics, character's past lives, and the old fashioned plotline, will Anita save the day again? WARNING: not for the faint of heart or those who can't stomach some serious gore.
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Summary: Earlier Blakes Better
Review: These first four Anita Blakes were the best in the series, so putting these for a group sale together was good thinking from an author going bad. Most people read vampire novels to read about vampires, not about the extreme sexuality that plagues the later novels and rid's them of an even relatively good plot line. The beginning 4 novels in the series are filled with intense character's who almost always draw you in, even the heroine Blake does a relatively good job in these books of maintaining her renowned status. The best part about these installments in the Blake books are the muder mysteries that are incorporated with her police identity. Hamilton does a good job of pulling the reader's in with intense and interesting stories filled with supernatural politics, character's past lives, and the old fashioned plotline, will Anita save the day again? WARNING: not for the faint of heart or those who can't stomach some serious gore.
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Summary: an all-night reader!!!
Review: This series of books is my favorites!!!
Not only is there sex, crime, guns, and gore, but Anita Blake is [a brave] female! (...). I have read all of the Anita Blake series and I'm finishing the Meridith Gentry series. I can't put them down!!!! Also because the stories are mainly based in STL, i can relate to the locations that Laurell K. Hamilton refers to. So it makes it all the more interesting! I hope Laurell keeps working on her books cause I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the next one!!!
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