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Summary: my review
Review: I thought this book was excellent. I always enjoy reading the Anita Blake series beacuse it's so entertaining. I believe all true Anita Blake fans will love it. It's another great book in another great series. Laurell K. Hamilton when she writes she never holds back , and I love that about her
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Summary: Hold Onto Your Seat
Review: One thing is for sure, LKH really knows how to tell a great story. After reading a slower pace book before-OB; I was ready for the fast paced style of NiC. So much went on. Normally that doesn't bother me; however, there is that mistake of getting too much happening and not knowing the whys and reasons. But in all, I was one satisfied customer. As usual, some of the scenes are a bit graphic and you may or may not like them. Personelly, to me, it didn't seem cheesy or stupid or even unusal. I guess after reading the other's before NiC, it's not that much of a shock. Plus, they aren't just there to be there, those scenes have a purpose and you'll understand why when you read it. There are always the familiar things that make you connect with the book as well as the series in general. But also some new things pop up: LKH has mixed some very interesting mysteries surrounding Anita's powers and the new people. Read this book; it leaves you thinking about who or what Anita is and the possible scenarios for the next book.
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Summary: Do NOT judge the series on Narcissus
Review: I loved the first several books of the Anita series. I was disappointed in the last one but thought LKH might just need to adjust to the longer hardback format. Far from recovering from her little stumble, though, Hamilton takes a dive in Narcissus. Thin plot, weak new characters, and a dull situation in general with dull, repetetive sex scenes connected by drivel. I'd hate for someone to pick up Narcissus first and be turned off the rest of the series. Bring back the zombies, Laurell, or quit writing Anita and try to do better by Meredith.
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Summary: keiko
Review: I've read this book twice, and I cannot understand why some... people have been so critical of this book. Anita has proven herself time and time again to her friends, her wereleopard pard, Richard, Jen Claude, and her numerous other friends and co-workers. There was a lot of sexual situations, but she was under the influence after being exposed to a very tough situations. That shouldn't cloud your views on the plot or characters. I personally loved the book, it is my second favorite in the series. The only fault of the book was that I would like to see more new, different, genres of changelings or monsters, or witches, or any new characters. I would like to see Anita and Elizabeth, the wereleopard, make peace with each other. But, no matter what, I enjoyed and loved the series, and will continue to read it. I would recommend this book to the anyone who has read this series from the beginning, so they would understand it.
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Summary: sensual escapism
Review: I work hard. I want to escape hard too. NARCISSUS IN CHAINS is escapism at its erotic best. Jean-Claude is a fantasy with flaws. Real, likeable flaws. This book is sensuous in a way that the other Anita Blake novels are lacking. It is a glory for the senses and yet the story is engrossing. Read the jacket for the story-line. This is Hamilton's best. Raw, and yet alive with sentiment. I loved this book. Richard's character is the only one that gives me pause. I want to shake him and say, "get over it. You are what you are." Richard's angst gets tiresome, but this is still a fabulous frolic. I bought it in hardcover and I'm not selling.
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Summary: Boring, boring, boring
Review: I *LOVED* this series - when it was about Anita Blake, Vampire Killer. Whatever happened to her? It seems this book was just an excuse for the author to write erotica - fine if that is what LKH wants to do, but don't destroy the Anita series doing it. Get Anita back on track! The gratuitous sex is just boring - what's next, a three-way in the bank lobby becomes necessary in order for Anita to be able to use her ATM card?
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Summary: Worth the read.
Review: I picked up the first Laurell K. Hamilton book about '95 or so at a used book sale and have been hooked ever since. I had to look long and hard for a female lead that did not need to be saved on a continual basis and Anita Blake is it! The latest book, Narcissus in Chains, is excellent. Once again Anita Blake does what she needs to do her way. I had a very hard time putting this book down and had a few "all nighters". In this latest installment Anita learns that her choices have consequences for those she is connected to and those she loves. She has to accept that she is not "just" human but something more in her own right and because she has chosen to "marry" the marks with both Jean-Claude and Richard, but all is not well. Richard comes up short (too bad) but Micah enters the picture. Anita shows all the traits of a Master Vampire without the constant need for blood however she has inherited Jean-Claude's need to feed off of lust and sex. This is an erotic ride in fantasy land, mmmmmm. If you want to read a good series of books, start with Guilty Pleasures and don't stop until you get to Narcissus in Chains. I can't wait until the next installment, keep 'em coming Laurell!
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Summary: What's happening to this series?
Review: Normally, I write long detailed reviews of vampire books. I like the genre, and I like all the previous books in this series. But this one, well... If you want to see why I like the rest of the series, you can read my reviews of all of them, starting with _Guilty Pleasures_ and going through _Obsidian Butterfly_. That would give you a comparison for how I feel about this one. Let's start by saying I'm disappointed. At best. Up to now, Anita has been feisty, moral, conflicted, and busy with her regular work as well as her love life. In this book, she appears to not be doing anything with her job at all - we never even hear about it, never hear from her boss, her co-workers. While for the past 6 months, and in the whole previous book, she was studying with a witch to learn to control her powers, in this book, although she refers to her time with the witch, despite all the problems she has controlling things, she never once thinks of picking up the phone and calling her mentor. And she appears to have abandoned her entire sense of moral conflict. This book brings in a new character, the male Nimir-Raj of another were-leopard pack, with whom Anita immediately has sex. And there's mental sex, virtual sex, interspecies sex... it gets downright tiresome. You never knew sex could be this boring. Even the plot elements, such as they are, are inconsistent, both with the rest of the series and with each other. At one and the same time, we have a tribe of snake men who apparently aren't weres, they are something we never knew about before, nor had anyone in the book. And then there's a pan-were, who can turn into any species - likewise, something that's never been hinted at before in the series, and is inconsistent with what we've learned about before. And then, for reasons never very clear, the snake men who aren't weres decide as a tribe to follow the pan-were - and all of them are bad guys. Sheesh. Talk about contrived. What I would really like to do is believe that Hamilton wrote this book as a parody; that now that she's got it out of her system, in the next book we will go back to where _Obsidian Butterfly_ ended, and start from there as though _Narcissus in Chains_ had never occurred. From the end of _OB_ she could take a different, more logical direction for the series, one which wouldn't change the character of Anita Blake to something unrecognizable, one which wouldn't include so much gratuitous sex that it offends even regular readers who are expecting the normal sexual content of the series. I will look forward to the next book in hopes it will meet this challenge - that's my hope for the series.
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Summary: What happened?
Review: I have loved the Anita Blake books for years, but this book has really turned me off. What was Ms. Hamilton thinking? The characters have totally changed, and I am seriously considering not only not reading any more, but also getting rid of the books I have now. It was a complete disappointment--more so because I stood in line for two hours to have her sign the book. Now I wish I could return it.
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Summary: Get on with it already!!
Review: I was disappointed in OBSIDION BUTTERFLY and assumed that Anita returning to St. Louis would help bring not only Anita but also the author back to what was important. I got a little bit of what I wanted but not enough. It's as though Ms Hamilton has some agenda or long term plotline in her head and this book was just a way of smoothing out a couple of things to make way for what she wanted to do in the next book. The entire first half of the book is Anita dealing with her return and the repercussions of what her leaving for 6 months did to everyone she left behind. There is a long drawn out event thrown in with her recovering two of her kidnapped were-leopards, but overall there didn't seem to be much for plot development until the last quarter of the book. By this point it was as though she thought. "Oh yeah I suppose I better take this somewhere" and threw in a bad guy so Anita could once again save everyone. Anita just keeps getting more and more powerful without ever really explaining why or how. She is getting so powerful that you don't ever really feel she is in danger anymore because of all the abilities she is developing. You fear more for those around her. The characters you had grown to love in the previous books do things to make you almost hate them by then end. But don't fear there are tons of new characters to get to know. In fact there are so many characters thrown in that sometimes you have to stop and wrack your brain to try and remember who everyone is. Someone may get hurt, mangled or tortured but before you can be shocked or feel bad for them you have to try and figure out who the heck they were in the grand scheme of things. If you plan on reading the next book in the series you will have to read this novel just to keep up with all of the changes that occur by the end. I love the series and the creativity that goes into creating this incredible world of the mundane and supernatural, but I want to see more of what these books started out as ...."Supernatural mysteries"
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