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Summary: Master Necromancer
Review: Anita's series are getting better and better. How much more power can she hold? She's always been shown as stubborn, determined to get the job done, but this book shows her true self. She's tenderhearted. She fights for those that belongs to her and are under her protection, but will kill who ever when necessary. She's a mystery to all her men, but mostly to herself. I like this book most because Anita began to realize more about herself than she's known before. She may continue to conquer men, but she don't use them for selfish gain nor has her morales gone completely out the window. She'll sleep with some, but others she won't cross that path.
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Summary: Tenth Book a Wild Romp
Review: In the latest Anita Blake escapade, Hamilton has her character returning to the tangled life in St. Louis that she was avoiding in Obsidian Butterfly, the previous book in the series. It's been a long, strange trip for Anita. She is burdened with a new, preternatural ability as a result of her bonds with the city's master vampire. (Begin the series at the beginning. Narcissus in Chains is no time to try to pick up all the plot.) The head werewolf, who is also bonded to the vampire and Anita, is rarely seen in these pages, replaced in Anita's affections and bed by a new wereleopard leader. New relationships are formed, older ones are reconsidered. Since all the men in the series are sexy as well as supernatural, sex is a pervasive element in the book. There are a few unflinching, graphic sexual encounters that will make some readers uneasy, while others will enjoy them. This book seems to be more a stage for intruducing future conflict in upcoming books than anything else. I do like how Hamilton makes her alternate reality seem real. Not every situation can be resolved with violence, and some situations seem to have no solution. There is never the guarantee of a happy ending for anyone. Anita is given great gifts, but there seems to be a liability for every gift. The bad news is that Anita no longer seems to have a job--I'd like Anita to at least have the pretense of her job as an animator. All her energies seem to be directed to attracting new men, gaining new powers, being the focal point for all the action in the shadowy worlds of vampires and werepeople. That being said, Narcissus is an enjoyable book, fast paced, fun, and erotic. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series, and hoping that Anita becomes a better balanced character.
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Summary: The Best Yet!
Review: This is the best book in the series! In Narcissus Anita faces many of her fears such as losing Richard, accepting the marks between Jean Claude and Richard, and accepting her monster. Anita stops running from everything and learns to face her fears head on. Her relationships with everyone deepens. The sex scenes are great. No more teasers with Anita running away just as everything heats up. The action is nonstop as well. Some reviewers have said that there is too much happening, but I love it. Before Narcissus, Blue Moon was my favorite in the series, but Laurell has outdone herself this time. I am dying of agony while I await the next book. Write quickly Laurell, please.
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Summary: Anita Fan All the Way!
Review: I gotta say this is my favorite out of the whole series. It gives us a great conclusion of the Jean-Claude/Richard conflict and introduces some great new characters, like Anita's new boyfriend. As a Jean-Claude fan I especially loved how LKH got rid of the temperamental, insenitive, wimp, Richard. In NIC, Anita gets a new guy, who accepts her for who she is. Anita finally comes to terms with herself as this book show a different side of her, while still dominant but having human emotions too.
A great book for all Anita fans.
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Summary: Still enjoying, but can we get out of the bedroom a little?
Review: I've kept up with the series from the time I first discovered them, and I find them truly wonderful, refreshing reads. But NIC was a bit disappointing for me. As much as sexy vamps and furries are great reading candy, I need a stronger balance of plot and character. This was a little more like Kiss of Shadows for me than any of the others. Basically, Anita is surrounded by droolworthy guys and keeps deciding who she's going to make love to. This didn't prevent me from reading the book in one night, and I still enjoyed it--but there's a lot less character depth being explored here. There's mostly more of what we've seen in other books. I still encourage fans to read it, but if you're new to the series, start with the first few books before diving in here. I look forward to the next Anita Blake book, but hope for a bit better than this.
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Summary: Best yet!
Review: Anita Blake is fast becoming the most dangerous (and interesting) being on the planet...you'll notice I didn't say human, since that definition is too narrow after this latest installment in the series. Now it is even harder to determine where the line is drawn, or if it should be drawn at all. New nasties, new powers and new players in Anitas' amazing life...I just couldn't put it down, now I have to bide my time until Ms. Hamilton takes us to the next horrific stage of the Executioners' evolution.
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Summary: Hamilton is an Awesome Author
Review: This installment of the Anita Blake books was great. Anita is finally coming into her own. I love the new characters and the turn of events that kept me guessing all the way until the end of the book. I got it on a Friday finished on Sunday and reread it again starting on Monday. This book was great. I cannot wait for the next book.
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Summary: What was Hamilton thinking?
Review: The Anita Blake series is my favorite of all time. I love opening the books and losing myself in Anita's world. I was immediately pulled in from the first page, just like I always am.Even though NiC was action packed and "the boys" were back, there were a lot of disappointments for me. Choices were made that I absolutely hated and things done to characters (maybe I should say one character)that I didn't like. I guess my main gripe is a lot of readers have been waiting for a certain thing to happen. Instead of it happening, new characters were brought in that I resented. I felt betrayed. Anita hasn't seen Jean Claude or Richard in six months. She knows she has to make a choice between them and decides to get in touch with them. When one of her wereleopards is kidnapped, it's Anita to the rescue. We see a lot of weres in this book that we haven't met before and Jean Claude and his vamps are very much in evidence, too. I don't want to give anything away but I will say Anita didn't act like the Anita of the previous books. She still carries her guns and knives and kills withut reservation, but her attitude is different. This isn't a bad thing because I was getting tired of her mouth and the restrictions she put on JC and Richard. Other differences in Anita weren't so good. Hamilton even made Jean Claude unlikable in this book. Let's face it, this book was a total waste of time and money. I hated it. This is the only Anita book that gets 1 star from me instead of 10 out of 5 :)
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Summary: The new Anita...Sigh
Review: I adore the character of Anita Blake. She's strong, fun, sassy and more than capable of taking care of herself. It's been fun to watch her grow into her ever increasing powers and to grow as a young woman falling in love with two complicated men. So I bought this newest book immediately. And for the first time I didn't want to finish an Anita story. For the first time I thought, "This is the last Anita book I'm buying." I hate that. All the contrived (and eventually tiresome) sex aside (I don't think anyone is dressed for the first 180 pages), the plot of this book is uneven, almost as if Hamilton combined the ideas of two books into one. But what really disappointed me was the way one major relationship ended. The relationship that had been building for nine books was cast aside as somewhat minor subplot. It was dissatisfying and disappointing. At the same time a major new relationship began within the matter of pages. A stranger that the reader has never seen before appears and suddenly Anita can't help herself around him. There are explanations but I think the readers were cheated of a chance to experience the developing attraction. For a long time Anita got better and better. Now she's getting worse and worse. The second half of this book was much better than the first but that's not enough to earn a recommendation. Stick to the first seven books of the series. They're quality.
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Summary: Such a disappointment - Anita Blake hits the skids
Review: I had problems with Obsidian Butterfly, so I decided to check this book out at the Library before purchasing it. I am glad I did. Save yourself the money. Poor Anita Blake - she started out with such promise. In the first few books, she was a smart, savvy woman who could hold her own against vampires, werewolves, and brujas, as well as assorted other nasties. She solved genuine supernatural mysteries, and solved them in style. In Lunatic Cafe, she even solved two sets of competing mysteries. In this book, thanks to the binding of the Vampire marks that hold her to Jean-Claude and Richard, suddenly Anita *must* have sex with attractive men, whether or not they are complete strangers. This sex is given way more detail than I ever wanted to know, and the mystery is given very little detail. The police that Anita has a long working relationship with suddenly can't stand her. Once the reason is made clear, there's no resolution - the plot thread is just left dangling. For almost three books now, we've seen little of Larry, Anita's apprentice vampire slayer and possibly apprentice necromancer. What happened to him? He gives Anita a relationship with sanity. The mystery itself, finding the kidnapper and killer of the alpha werecreatures, is not given much airplay. When the plot takes up less room than the sex, and the sex involves lots of blood, it's time to leave. Anita has been tough-minded and compassionate. She still is, but she's forgotten a few things. She's now razor-hard, has compassion only for were-creatures and vampires, and seems most interested in a good hard gang-bang. She does have interesting little philosophical musings, but they last only a paragraph at a time, and then it's back to the dance of sex and blood and protection for the were and the vampires.
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