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Summary: Still going strong..
Review: "The Killing Dance" felt a little slower when it came to action, but it made up for it with some thrilling new developments in Anita's personal life...developments that I have been impatiently waiting and waiting for..I was not disappointed!! Another definite must read from Laurell Hamilton...God I love Jean-Claude..... :o)
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Summary: Snap!
Review: For those of you who're new to this series: Anita Blake, vampire hunter/zombie reanimator extraordinare, is involved with two men. One's a werewolf (he's the "nice" boyfriend) and one's a vampire ("naughty" boyfriend). For most of the series, she's been doggedly keeping her dual relationship chaste -- and the sexual tension has been stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band. In "The Killing Dance," it finally snaps -- and what a relief! Thanks, Laurell. You've been torturing your readers for so long, and now we finally get the payoff.On a non-raunchy note, this book is just as action-packed, gory, and darkly humorous as the last five. In it, Anita is faced with three annoying dillemas. One: She's been approached by a vampire with a hideous blood-related disease who hopes that, as a powerful necromancer, she can cure him. Two: Her wolfish boyfriend, Richard, is trying to overthrow the current alpha male of the local pack and become alpha himself -- but since he refuses to kill anyone, he's likely to get himself killed instead. Three: An unknown someone has put a bounty on her head, and now she's become the target of various local assassins. Throw in an expansive supporting cast of bloodsuckers, werebeasts, zombies, cops, lawyers, etc., and you've got the usual tale. Ms. Hamilton is great at keeping our interest and making us care about the characters. I won't say which boyfriend Anita goes all the way with (some other reviewer on this page has probably given it away already), but it's still rather exciting to those of us who faithfully follow Anita's exploits. Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta go buy the rest of this series.
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Summary: Please hold me
Review: I think either I get too emotionally attached to things or this book was just THAT good. LKH led us by the ear book after book, pressing to the limits of sexual tensions between Anita and Jean-Claude (and oh, that boring simpleton, Richard). Finally, FINALLY, she gives us what we want and it was amazing. It's like being 5 years old and begging, pleading to have that "cute", extremely expensive and large pony and then getting it. By the end, I was in tears.
But with that relieving of tensions between JC and Anita behind, the rest of the book was great too. The situations with the werewolves only further intensify and I found myself in love with every character (except for Richard as he keeps drawing Anita away from JC) and intrigued by every twisted personality she came across.
What I do suggest however is that this book not be read as one's first taste of LKH writing. It IS a great book but it's an amazing revlation of a work if read 6th in line to the other books.
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Summary: Love the Series
Review: I own the entire series. It was so interesting I got a friend to start reading for the first time in her life. Each book gets slightly more twisted. I wouldn't recommend for younger readers due to swearing and adult situations.
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Summary: Just keeps getting better
Review: Anita is being hunted this time, and she learns that wehn Edward, her bounty-hunter friend, turns up to say he was offered the contract. Who's hunting her becomes second to her continuing relationships with both Richard and Jean-Claude. She finally comes to terms with her life and who she really is. Richard deals with internal pack relations, that Anita is, of course, involved in. All the while Jean-Claude is right there. I love him.
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Summary: Anita Grows Up... Finally
Review: Yes, I've been reading this series in order, starting with Guilty Pleasures, and I have to agree with most of the reviewers that say that this is the best book (so far) in the series. Anita is finally making decisions and focusing in on her personal life. There are still some confusing rules about magic and being in a triumvirate. This plot device allows Hamilton to conveniently craft her story, but it seems like an easy way out to solve the problems and obstacles in Anita's life. Hamilton is focusing too much on Anita and her problems and not enough on the world she lives in. On a positive note, Hamilton's overly descriptive clothing is toned down (thank God!), and the pace is extremely fast moving... not to mention the steamy scenes that the fans have finally been waiting for. I look forward to book # 7, Burnt Offerings.
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Summary: Go Jean Claude
Review: Finally - I have been reading the series at the rate of 1 book a day, and am I glad I got to this book. This is my favorite so far (I am not happy with what Hamilton does to the charactars in Narcissus in Chains - ug, get rid of Micah what's his face). But I digress. Lets just say that if you start with Guilty Pleasures, by the time you get to the Killing Dance you are so ready for what happens in this book that you feel the afterglow. I hope the author comes back to this kind of storytelling.
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Summary: I want to be Jean-Claudes tub toy!!
Review: Ohh, I would love to have thrown this book against the wall when I read it, but I couldn't I just couldn't. It was so good. I "ate it all up."
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Summary: Looking for Richard
Review: Poor Anita Blake! Man or woman, monster or human, it seems like everybody in St. Louis wants to have sex with her. Or kill her. Or both. No wonder she's stressed out. What she needs is a nice long Alaskan cruise, not a new, enigmatic, decaying client, a disintegrating soul who happens to be a peer of one of her two boyfriends. Nor does Anita really need to find out that someone has taken a contract out on her life. Snuggling up with the Tony Soprano of the St. Louis preternatural underworld isn't really going to help her relax. Let's face it, anybody reading Book Six of a series probably is already a fan of the author. Any other readers are strongly advised that this book, THE KILLING DANCE, stands poorly on its own. Long time readers will already have accepted the fascinating if not exactly clearly thought-out premise behind the series. They will have become accustomed to the non-stop action-cramped plots, and the drawn-out dilemmas facing Anita Blake, who fate has assigned too many roles and too many skills. Even fans of the Anita Blake books cannot consider this one of the best. Anita's characteristic dry wit fails her here as she utters feeble observations on the absurdity of her experience rather than caustic banter about mixing fashion and firearms. In this book, the contract on Anita's life is the driver for the plot, but Anita willingly puts her life in increasingly dangerous situations that have little bearing on the hitman storyline. Sadly, the Anitaverse starts to make less and less sense, while characters, both human and demi-human, are constantly thrown into the mill. If some of them had exotic names, it might be easier to track everybody, but the wereleopards are as blandly identified as the humans. This actually makes sense, given the themes of monster/human revulsion/attraction that Hamilton pounds over and over into the reader's head, but it is also annoying and confusing. Fans of the soap-opera aspects of the series will probably either enjoy or be shocked by the pivotal choice that Anita makes at the end of the killing dance. Readers who haven't invested themselves in the entire series will find themselves not caring and wondering what the big deal is.
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Summary: wow
Review: lets just say she gets better and better each book!
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