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Summary: Good, but no vampires or werewolves
Review: This book, again, takes palce away from home for Anita. she goes to help Edward, her bounty-hunter friend, solve a case. It's a very good book because you get to know more about Edward and his life. It's a not so good bok because it's entirely different from the books before this, which involve more vampires and werewolves. This book reads as more of a typical mystery gory thriller. But it was very well done.
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Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: I loved this one! Edward is my fave character and this book just blew me away!
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Summary: interesting diversion
Review: Finally time for Edward to collect his I O U and a nice change of pace occurs with Anitia leaving St. Louis and all her otherworldly freinds behind. (Yes you miss them for a while but then things get their usual fast and furious pace and your well on your way to forgetting them too). This one has a better 'detective' quality to it and a good smattering of seriously flawed 'humans 'for a change. Could have done without the suffering of the children involved, that seemed a bit heavy handed. Perhaps its possible to assume that the kids will show up in some future related plot down the road. This is a real good one.
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Summary: Back to the Good Stuff
Review: After the disappointment of Blue Moon I am so glad I read this book. I do enjoy Edward, and the story here has it all - characters to care about, characters to be afraid of, suspense, mystery, interesting plots, good action, interesting revelations, and a few nice JC moments to boot. Great fun.
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Summary: Kept me from reading her next book for over a year
Review: I'd have to say that this isn't on of Hamilton's best works. With the last book, I've begun to notice that the series is taking a turn for the worse. Even though I've always gobbled the next book in the series as soon as it comes out, this book kept me away from NiC for over a year! NiC is even worse than this (you can read my review for it). But back to OB: the plot is still ok, but the scenes of violence are getting to the point where they don't really belong in the book. Hamilton tries to shock her readers, adding more and more violence. Also, I find Anita's character is beginning to get on my nerves. Before I could relate to her; she was a woman, petite, and had to be tough in order to survive in this type of world. However, now she's just annoying, but a I'm tougher than you attitude. You can't turn a page without her comparing egos with the guys. It is annoying as hell. It is a like a testosterone driven teenager in Anita's body.
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Summary: Stunningly poor writing
Review: This is the first and only in this series I will read! How many times should an author repeat the same description of a character's eyes, lack of human feeling, clothing? Ms. Hamilton obviously believes that there is no limit. Tedious at best, predictable dialog, boring, familiar plot. Anne Rice she is not. The only thing we get to learn about our characters is that there are only one or two traits worth revealing. If not for the description of the nightclub, it would earn no stars at all.
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Summary: I wonder if she coats the pages with some kind of drug?
Review: I just recently became a fan of Laurell K Hamilton, getting hooked by the Merry Gentry series, and this was the first book of the Anita Black series that I've read.
I was surprised (and kind of sad) by the lack of sensual scenes in this book as compared to the others I've read, but I have to say, the violence/suspense really made up for that! I even left work early a couple of times to read it. :)
I've ordered another book, and can't wait for the next book in the Merry Gentry series to come out!
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Summary: The Goriest book to date...
Review: When I first picked up the book, I thought my god it's huge! The book is much longer than the others in the Anita Blake series, not that this deterred me in the least I devoured this book as I do all by Laurell Hamilton, I am now a devoted fan.Even though the book is very long, it is still not long enough and through parts of the book I flicked back to see if I missed pages as some parts let you assume things happened that Laurell would normally let you experience. That is the only gripe I have about this book :) Many Laurell Hamilton fans are dismayed by the overt sexuality and amount of sex in the novels. I am not one of these fans, I think the sexuality is fabulous and along with the violence and gore makes all her novels oage turners and keeos the pace on the extreme dial. In this book however there is no gratuous sex scenes so many fans will be gratified with that. This book takes a look in to Edward, who Anita always hopes she will never become. He is the scariest "person" she knows which is saying a lot espeically with her group of BDSM friends :) Edward, Anita and recruits are hunting down the most gruesome monster I have ever met on my reading travels. The Murders are disgustingly gruesome and I said "Ewwww!" a lot out loud while reading this novel, but I loved it! I would not recommend it for anyone with a weak constitution. Not my favourite Anita Blake book, though probably the one that affected me the most. I really missed Richard and Jean Claude in this novel though and will be happy to get back to them in my next reading :)
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Summary: Still deserves 5 stars
Review: My least favorite book in the series. Why? because there are none of the main characters in the story. Yeah, well Edward is there...but he is definetly not my favorite character. Yeah, he is cool (so I am not stoned), but he is not my cup 'o tea. Did anyone else notice that Olaf and Kaspar (dereanged wereswan from previous books) have the same last name: Gundersson? Just wondering. N-E-way, good book, still deserves 5 stars for the plot, but it was in no way my fav.
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Summary: Best Hamilton book to date
Review: I've read all of Ms. Hamilton's books, and I particularly enjoy her Anita Blake series. This book is the best to date. Edward the bounty hunter/assasin has called in the favor Anita owes him, and Anita travels to New Mexico to assist Edward in this action-packed, on-the-move, mystical thrill ride. Anita is as sharp-tongued and quick witted as ever, and she uses necromancy, knives, machine guns and even martial arts to bring down the bad guys. Best of all, the novel moves away from what I consider to be Ms. Hamilton's greatest flaw as an author - using too much sex to disguise a weak plot line. No problems this time around! Shame she didn't keep up the good work in Narcissus in Chains.
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