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Summary: Steamy, Down & Dirty-Just the way we like Anita!
Review: Once again Hamilton's writing is pure satisfaction. New, interesting charactors, wild plot twists, and wonderment as to where she will take Anita and her pals next.
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Summary: can't wait for the next one
Review: I found this one of Hamilton's best books. Her characters evole with each book. However, it is not for the faint of heart and is fairly graphic. While some didn't like this book because it doesn't have the same type of plot, I found this to be the most interesting of her books because of Anita's coming to terms with her "monsters". The only draw back as far as I was concerned was what felt like a bit of a rushed ending.
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Summary: Padded
Review: Like so many others here, I found this book to be a major disappointment. And for many of the same reasons. If I had to use one word to discribe this one, that word would be "padded". It seems like once she'd written it, Hamilton came in 200-250 pages short, so she began having Anita start repeating herself. How many times did she tell us about what had happened up to this point...in detail? And the sex scenes got old real fast.I've read every book up to this one, and enjoyed every one (including Obsidian Butterfly, which others found disappointing, as well). And what I find most disturbing is the stuff that's missing. Is Anita even still working for Animators, Inc. or the police department? You'd never know it from this book. I'll be around for the next one, of course. I won't let one stumble chase me away. But more like this one, and I'll be gone. Sad, but still gone.
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Summary: Where's the Plot?
Review: I finished NiC in a day. Good Points: The were-relationships and Anita's realization that cooperation instead of in-fighting is the solution. Richard's characterization and weaknesses are consistent, if frustrating. Bad Points: The bulk of the book is about Anita's sexual woes as a result of more tightly bonding with Jean Claude and Richard -- it seems that Jean Claude's incubus is contageous, you see. . . . And the sexual scenes mean Anita leaves Nathanial and Gregory in considerable danger while she has sex. Not the Blake I prefer. There's a plot under there somewhere, trying despirately to come out -- why Nathanial and Gregory are threatened in the first place, for example -- which Anita totally ignores while in the midst of her sexual adventures. As it stands, the plot is basically a thread between sex scenes - like a bad porn movie. Too many new characters. You'll probably need a score card to recall who's who, who's sleeping with who, and why you should care about the casualties of various fights. Too many loose ends and minor digressions. The subplot with Belle Morte, for example, seems to be foreshadowing for the next book - and could have been much shorter. I second the folks who say this series badly needs better editing. There are some clever ideas here. An interesting universe. But less sex, more plot!
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Summary: Anita Has Lost Her Compass
Review: I am so tired of a great character, Anita Blake, being obsessed with sex, sex, sex. She was fabulous and now is totally one-dimensional. I think she would consider jumping a turnip if she walked close by one. And all this back-and-forth between Jean-Claude and Richard is BORING. How did Anita sink into this morass?
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Summary: Porn with fangs
Review: A complete waste; of time, of money, of paper, you name it. Unless, of course, you enjoy voyeuristically wallowing in someone else's fantasies. It must have been difficult for Amazon to find six pages from this book to display that DON'T consist entirely of turgid sex scenes. And, even those weren't well written, in my opinion, though some of the female reviewers here seemed to like it. So, maybe it's a guy thing. The fact remains this book is basically porn, occasionally interrupted by other events.
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Summary: Umm - Not QUITE an Anita Sequel...more of a Merry Sequel
Review: Well - I have been reading the Anita Series for about 3 years now...and after reading the other 9 books I never thought I would dread reading the next one....I did. *sigh* I wouldn't say that my reaction was enough to turn me off buying the next book, but it was close. I was expecting a nice, good Anita book - with Necromancy, Killing, and good Vampire-Hunter action...instead I feel like I got a Sequel to Kiss of Shadows. (...) The only thing that I can think of is that LKH saw how well the Merry Gentry book was received and it just bled over to this series. (Pun intended :-> ). (...) I know that I myself enjoyed her "suffering" with her sexuality (or celibacy) and to see her abandon all that now....*sigh* ah well. Thank you
ME
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Summary: Anita for Better or Worse?
Review: I don't know what else I can add to the plethora of reviews already here, but I feel the need to defend this book anyway. Yes, the story has taken a heavy twist since Obsidian Butterfly. Anita's changed etc etc, but IMO I just sat back and enjoyed the book. Sure, I had my moment where I just had to stop and go, "What?" Not only has Anita become defender of the "monsters", she's become a complete superheroine. But as a female, I can't help but go "Yeah! You go!" no matter how cliche that sounds. It just seems to me LKH has taken the plot a big step further at what she's been hinting at. Plus, it is the tenth book in the series-- how long can a series go through a similar plot formula without some change? I do look forward to the next book anyway, and recommend to others who are hesitant to buy, borrow/preview first.
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Summary: terribly disapointing
Review: read and reread the anita blake series and enjoyed the parallel universe of vampires, werecreatures and the complex rules of the world they populated. the eroticism in the early books was appropriate and acted as a counterpoint to the prime character motivation. concepts of responsibility for dependent beings, unexpected and progressively unfolding "powers" added to the enjoymenty of unfolding maturity of the prime character. however the present book appears focused more on pornographic titillation than on plot development or character enhancement. it may be that ms. hamilton has either decided to milk the dollar by reproducing pseudosenusual s\m scenes or has run out of non sexual themes for her novels. at any rate am incredibly disappointed at this offering.
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Summary: FINALLY!! Anita's getting down to business
Review: I read this book in one sitting, which for meant that instaed of my usual 2:00 a.m. lights-out, I stayed up to greet the dawn. Finally, Anita is getting on with her "life", and accepting what we've long known -- a necromancer that powerful, no matter what her personal prejudices and beliefs, CANNOT live within the human realm entirely! It was very nice to see Ms. Blake expanding her rules of conduct, though I still maintain that Jean-Claude is getting the short end of the stick here. As for Richard... well, I think this turn of events has been foreshadowed for quite some time, and his attitudes towards himself, and those around him, make this resolution inevitable in my opinion. (...) This is, first and foremost, a series about VAMPIRES, and the woman who hunts them; vampires are sexual icons,and always will be. I think that the erotica in this novel was handled appropriately in the context of the world Laurell Hamilton has created, and I think that it can only inhance the social and psychological metaphors that the characters are drawn from.
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