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Summary: Best book yet in this exciting series
Review: It has been six months since Anita Blake has seen her two lovers, Richard the shapeshifter and Jean-Claude the vampire. During that time she has been learning how to control her powers so something unpleasant doesn't shock her. She is almost ready to get in touch with her two men and see if they can come to an amicable arrangement since Richard, Jean-Claude and Anita are bound together in a triumvirate of power.
Before she can make the first move, two of her were-leopards are being tortured at the S & M club NARCISSUS IN CHAINS. She calls on Jean-Claude for help and he agrees only if she acquiesces to open herself up to the marks of power so she has a fighting chance of coming out of this encounter alive. After Anita takes care of business, she fears changing into a were-jaguar since one who was trying to save her life cut her. Meanwhile a were-Jaguar wants to merge his group with hers. Before anything can be arranged, an enemy strikes out at the triumvirate, forcing them to put personal problems on hold and learn who is after them so they can stop him.
NARCISSUS IN CHAINS seems to be the definitive book in the series. The protagonist has come to terms with what she is and accepts that her vampire lover is a part of her life because he needs her. She also sees that Richard will never change and makes plans accordingly. Laurel K. Hamilton has written the best book of her career because she gives the audience the long waited answers they have been waiting for. This action-supernatural thriller is a keeper and with the passage of time will be considered a classic. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: This series keeps rocking!
Review: Anita just keeps getting better and better! When someone kidnaps the local weres, starting with Nathaniel, Anita must find out the who, the why and stop them. While at the same time coming to terms with her own life and loves. This is Anita's tenth book and the most complex to date. Can she hold on to those she loves or will she just have to let go? Can she control the abilities that marrying the marks with Richard and Jean-Claude has given her or has she finally crossed that line and become the monster she feared she could be? You'll have to read it to find out. Anita has changed and grown as the series as progressed. She is definately not the naive little necromancer of Guilty Pleasures, but it hasn't made her life easier, only more shades of gray fill in the once black and white areas. Anita continues to make her own choices and never the easy ones. She can be counted on to provide a really good read though. I cannot wait for book 11 of this series.
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Summary: 90% Sex, 10% Crime/Mystery
Review: I started the Anita Blake series during my senior year of high school. I was totally hooked. I am now entering my junior year of college, and I have become very disappointed since I read Narcissus in Chains. The story is full of mindless sex. I enjoy sex in novels; it's great, but most of these sexual scenes are out of nowhere and not tied to the actual plot. More and more, I can't stand Nathaniel. He's a whiny little baby who looks to Anita for EVERYTHING. It's like someone suddenly yells FREEZE and the plot suddenly halts because Nathaniel needs something. I'm surprised that he isn't dead yet, really. The villian in this novel was terrible. LKH pushed aside almost all of the plot's mystery so she could present us with smut. Suddenly, as the book is winding down, she has the gang drive over to the club and the gun fight is on. It's just too random. There was no extreme detective work. And LKH presented the villian as though we were supposed to know who it was all along. What the hell? The series was wonderful when she was animating, solving crimes, and suffering under the weight of the sexual tension. LKH uses the arduer as a poor excuse for all the sex in her novels now. This is the worst of all the novels in this series in my opinion. I'm going to read Incubus Dreams because I've already been a long time fan, but I don't have much hope for it.
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Summary: Soft Porn for the supernatural lover
Review: While I understand the evolution of Anita's life, this book takes her love life well into the porn field. If you like a half dozen scenes of sex, including group and S&M sex (biting), then you'll appreciate the entire book. Otherwise, if you overlook it, you can still enjoy the book by skimming those sections you don't wish to read. I like Laurell Hamilton's writing, but perhaps she should develop other new worlds of fiction to explore.
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Summary: Reviewers need help!!
Review: How can anyone say that this is a horrible novel??? There is everything right with this book!! The thing about a series of novels is the progression of the characters in them. Anita has come a long way and no one can expect her to stay how she was in the earlier novels. Shame on the bad reviewers...shame on you.
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Summary: pleasantly surprised
Review: After reading the negative comments about this book, I was worried that Narcissus in Chains would be a let down. I have been an Anita Blake fan from the beginning, but Obsidian Butterfly and Narcissus in Chains have been my two favorite books of the entire series. If you have enjoyed the series so far, don't stop because of the negative reviews. This book is 5 stars all the way.
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Summary: The worst book I ever read
Review: So many other reviewers have explained the flaws with this book, that I can't really add anything to their comments. I'd just like to suggest that if the book is republished, they print it on toliet tissue so the book can be of some practical use.
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Summary: What happened to Anita
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I miss the Anita form the series thru "Blue Moon".
I spent time getting to know and care about Richard and Jean Claude but they are almost forgotten. Why Hamiliton decided to turn such a good character as Richard into a whinning one, I have no clue but am very disappointed.
I hate the audeur. That was just an easy way for Hamilton to turn Anita into an easy lay. She no longer has any of the morals she once had. I prefer a little romance with my sex. The sex can be wild since we were dealing with a vamp (Jean C.) and a wolf (Richard) but I do like a little romance with it. Now all I get is the ardeur.
Lastely, I get it alreay, Micah is huge. I don't want to read about repeatedly. I guess the ardeur and Micah are ways for Hamilton to live out her fantasies. As a reader I hope she forgets about her fantasies and gets back to what made the series so good from Guilty Pleasure's to Blue Moon. Until then, I'm off to read someone else's work.
By the way, I thought I'd give her another chance and bought the Princess Merideth series and all I'll say about those is she used an eraser and just wrote the name Merry where Anita's name was(and unfortunately it's would be the Anita we now have with the ardeur. It wasn't the type of writing I received during the good part of the Anita book series)
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Summary: Getting back on track
Review: The series is getting back on track in my opinion. While certainly not the weakest book in the series (I have read them in order and am finishing up Cerulean Sins) it isn't my favorite.
Things are just resolved too quickly. I wish LKH would spend less time building up the less than satisfactory sex scenes and spend more time on Anita's inner turmoil as she grapples to come to terms with what she is becoming. (On the other hand, noone really seems to know what she is becoming so maybe that is a moot point.)
The previous book had a scene I found so distasteful I almost returned the rest of the books in the series, but I decided to give it another go. No nasty little hospital scenes in this book (If you read Obsidian Butterfly you know what I am talking about) and there is the introduction of a new love interest for Anita, one I find infinetely more interesting than whiny ole' Richard.
What I found most interesting what the 'big, bad guy' but alas Hamilton just didn't give him enough page time. The idea and what he was was very interesting, but again like Bloody Bones, he seemed almost an afterthought.
Less sex....more turmoil please.
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Summary: great book why all the negative reviews?
Review: I could not put this book down and I have read all the earlier Anita Blake series. I just think the author is trying to make the charactor grow. I mean we do not all stay the same. Its been like what?, 4 years thru the series of this particular person and it seems everyone wants to read the same plot. I thought the book was great i could not put it down. I was a little disappointed that the Richard charactar can't seem to except himself and the end. All and all i still love this series and find Anita even more fascinating with all her newer powers coming into the story.
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