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Summary: Clear the calendar--you'll read this one in one sitting!
Review: I'm quickly making my way through the Anita Blake series. Any of these novels is a winner on its own, but you'll miss so much if you don't start at the beginning (GUILTY PLEASURES).
DANCE, in my humble opinion, is the best book thus far in the series. The main characters (Anita, Jean-Claude, Richard, Edward) are much more developed, the relationships between them all are so well written that you start to feel like you know them. In DANCE, Anita faces the realization that a mysterious "money man" has put out a huge contract for her death. With the help of her friends (and I use that term for lack of a better word for these complex characters), she battles her way through shapeshifters, shooters, makers of shapeshifter-porno movies, vamps, psychopaths and cops. And then things get strange.... Forever undaunted, Anita arms herself to the teeth to protect her life as well as the "lives" of the men/undead/werewolf that she loves.
DANCE also brings Anita to some decisions regarding her feelings for Jean-Claude, the seductive Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, the potential alpha male of the local werewolf pack. Who will she choose? Will she tell them both to take a hike? How will she reconcile her own ambiguous feelings about what it means to be a monster and what it means to be in love?
All in all, this entire series is a great ride. Anita narrates each story. She's petite, she's pretty, she's tough. She doesn't need to be rescued because she's typically the one doing the rescuing! She's a necromancer with incredible powers, and these powers are more developed in DANCE through her relationship with Jean-Claude and Richard. Laurell Hamilton introduces new characters and brings in some old ones from prior novels. It's rather difficult to pin this series into one genre. It's part romance, part mystery, part detective, part horror, part gore, part vampire and all of the above. There's something here to please almost everyone. These books are fun, they're scary, and I guarantee you'll keep reading them to find out what happens next!
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Summary: One of the best in the series
Review: Like the others, I'm a big fan of Anita Blake and her entourage of interesting characters. When I first started this series I started with Lunatic Cafe and got so into it, I had to go back and start from the beginning to see how her relationships with Jean Claude and Richard had evolved. Great page turners, wonderful characters, and interesting lore that she has crafted. Get the series and join the madness :)
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Summary: Anita kills 'em again!
Review: Once again, Anita Blake's in the middle of a pack of werewolves, a kiss of vampires and an assortment of other monsters, two of which she's dating! Between Vampire Jean-Claude's advances and Werewolf Richard Zeeman, Anita has her love life full- complicatingly so! A true thriller chock full of Anita's loving sarcasm, witt, slaying and fun! Bon apitite!
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Summary: Jean Claude just kills me...
Review: In every Anita Blake book that comes out, I find myself falling in love with Jean Claude... I guess just as a regular reader I fall victim to the seduction quality of the Vampire that Hamlilton portrays perfectly in all her stories. Jean Claude..... *sigh* I reccomend ALL the books in the Anita Blake series, and i have read nearly all of them.
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Summary: She Slayed Me
Review: This is the first title I have read from the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. I am now in search for the first title. This novel was wonderful and I will definitely find the beginning and read them all in a string. The story has great momentum and builds and builds. I enjoyed the complexity of all the characters and can't wait to find out all the past history. 72+ reviewers can't be wrong! Read this book! You won't be sorry!
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Summary: A Killing Book
Review: First of all, let me just say, thank God for the upcoming Obsidian Butterfly so that we Edward fans may get a healthy dose of our favorite LKH character! Laurell treads great ground here in this Anita Blake book and with the terribly elusive Edward on her side, one can only feel sorry for the hit men paid to assassinate Anita. Makes one wonder what it would be like if these two ever got together. Laurell proves on this novel what she has shown all along in this series, her capabilities to create such a vivid world for us to stay that we never want to leave. Reaching the end of an Anita Blake book is like losing a good friend. Highly recommended for those tired of the Anne rice vampires!
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Summary: Oh My GOD!!!!!!!
Review: I read it until I thought my eyes would never shut again. Hamilton is a master, everyone has a purpose and she has found hers. This book is unbelieveable it just keeps the adrenaline pumping and keeps you guessing. Who will win Anita's heart and body??? How powerful a necromancer is she really???? After a close encounter with a lycanthrope will she finally become what she always dreaded???? Wouldn't you like to know??? Read the Book!!!
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Summary: Ma Petite Is Wonderful
Review: One of the reasons why I enjoyed this one so much is because Hamilton involves a lot more of her characters, especially Edward, whom we all love dearly. I do have a bone to pick with some of the people who argue that Anita is coming too far out of her human self. The woman never was human! That's why people call her a necromancer! Sure her attitude may have attracted Jean-Claude, but her power is what he and Richard really wanted once they realized the potential.I do wonder when Laurell Hamilton is really going to bring Larry into the story. And I hope that I am not the only one who's glad that Raina and Marcus are finally gone. The whole scene at the lupanar was a turning point for not only Richard, but Anita as well. The time finally came for Richard to accept his beast and Anita got to witness it first-hand (speaking politely). All in all though, I loved this book. It was packed full of action and something finally happened with the whole love triangle thing.
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Summary: I loved this Anita Blake book!
Review: It was spontaneous! I loved it. Now I am impatient for the next book. I am so glad that Anita choose Jean-Claude. She made the right descision.
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Summary: Excellent book, it got me hooked.
Review: I think this book was excellent. This was the first book of Anita Blake, Vampire Executioner, neceromancer, that I ever read. One of my good friends reccommended it to me, she has the same tastes in books and authors that I do, she thought I would like it, and I did. This book debunked my favorite author to second place, Laural Hamilton replaced Anne Rice as my favorite author. I think Richard and Jean-Claude make excellent characters. I was not sure how the book would turn out, but I loved it. This book had everything I or any Anne Rice fan would like, if you read Anne Rice, I highly reccommend it to any fan, you just have to give it a chance.
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