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Summary: My favorite series but not my favorite novel
Review: The Anita Blake series is a wonderfully fresh take on a somewhat tired genre. Imagine a female Spencer (cf. Robert Parker) turned loose in a world in which vampires, zombies, were-creatures, and ghouls really exist. Hamilton's originality and creativity even prompted her to have the Supreme Court recognize the constitutional rights of vampires, so that staking them is a crime. A fun combination of the vampire and female PI genres that really works.Several books in the series have been among the few books to which that the old cliche about "not being able to put it down" really applies. For me, Bloody Bones was not one of them. It is something of a transitional novel with two major plot lines that intersect only loosely. Anita's antagonists here are not as fully realized or even as scary as those she's faced in other novels. Yet, I don't want to overly criticize. Hamilton is a wonderful writer and there are some truly great scenes and lines here. "Wounded master vampires get cranky as hell"!! Or the scene in which Anita discovers the pitfalls of French kissing a master vampire. In sum, recommended for fans of the series. It is an important transition in Anita's relationships with Richard and Jean-Claude. NOT the place newcomers should start. Go back to "Guilty Pleasures," and get hooked first.
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Summary: Great book - made me late for work
Review: Anita is sent out of town to do a mass raising of an ancient graveyard, a job that she might not be up to. While out of town, she visits a bloody vampire slaying of three boys, and then another slaying of a young woman. All of this weaves together, and she must join with Jean-Claude to confront the local master vampire, an old foe of Jean-Claude's. I don't know how the reader below found this hard to get into. Like all the other books, it was unputdownable - I was so engrossed, I annoyed my wife, and was late for work two days running. Fortunately they are short, and I read quickly, so I finished it in a couple of days. This felt the most formulaic of the five books in this series so far. There is almost nothing about Anita's relationship with the man she loves, and a lot about the man she lusts after. But we have been over a lot of this territory before. As always, there are some new creatures to learn about, and this is interesting, but all of the territory is very familiar. There is only so much you can do with the same ingredients, I guess. The bottom line, though, is that Ms Hamilton writes a cracking good story, and these books are gripping and satisfying reads. The characters never do anything illogical, and there are no loose ends. I can't imagine not being able to get into this book, as one reviewer found - my problem is getting out!
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Summary: So slow, it could be required reading in high school
Review: This book took forever to go anywhere. I read 1/3 of the way through before anything happened. During this time a bunch of contractions are raise. 1) A monster killer is dating, not 1 but 2 monsters. 2) You can't kill a vamp without a court order, but the vamps can kill anyone without one. By the time stuff started happening, all the excitement for the book was gone so the rest was, for me, uninteresting. Then, to top everything off, the beasty that everyone wanted to make them stronger, is the easiest of all the characters to kill. I was looking for a good Halloween story. I read the reviews for this book. All I can say is I don't think I could endure another one of her books.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This book was so great. It's not my favorite of the series but it's really close to being. I think all her books are great. She doesn't have the beautiful tall, long-legged heroine. But a realistic petite female who doesn't take s**t from anyone.
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Summary: good story, but some reasoning gaps need bridging
Review: If you are new to Anita Blake you will want to begin with the first book in the series, _Guilty Pleasures_. However, the books stand alone as well as any I've seen in a series. Anita, one of the most interesting characters in modern horror/fiction, is as defiant and tough as ever--and she's evolving at a nice pace, as are some of the other characters. In fact, by this point in the series I'd say that considering the number of characters who have made repeated appearances in multiple books, Hamilton has developed them with impressive distinction and depth. Here we see some new types of preternatural beings introduced for the first time, and the interaction between them and vampires--and the fact that the same precautions don't work on both--creates interesting suspense. What isn't so well explained is the issue of how the skeletal zombies--who no longer have speech apparatus--are supposed to talk and answer questions if Anita raises them, which would call into question the fundamental plot task that gets her into the soup. While a certain degree of license is of necessity always granted to writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror, we at least should expect their reasoning to be internally consistent. Marked down slightly for that reason, but still a fine book that would have gotten 4.5 stars if possible. Hamilton continues to flesh out an interesting world that, while often not for the soft of stomach, has come to appeal to a very broad spectrum of readership.
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Summary: PURE READING PLEASURE
Review: I BOUGHT A BOOK CALLED "THE MIDNIGHT CAFE" A 3 IN 1 NOVEL. "BLOODY BONES" IS THE 2ND BOOK OF THE THREE. IT IS FAST PACED ACTION FROM START TO FINISH. I FINISHED IT IN 6HOURS. I COULD NOT PUT THE STORY DOWN. "BLODDY BONES" WILL MAKE THE HAIR RAISE-UP ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK AND MAKE YOU GRIP THE BOOK TIGHTER AND NOT REALISE IT UNTIL YOUR FINGERS HURT. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE SERIES THAT MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT IF? THEN SENDS YOU LOOKING DEEPER NOT ONLY INTO YOURSELF, BUT MAKES YOU LOOK AROUND AT THE PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE. SORRY ABOUT THE ALL CAPS JUST SAW SOME ONE LOCK IT IN.
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Summary: Interesting...but a bit disappointing
Review: Don't get me wrong, I love the Anita Blake books, but once I found out what bloody bones was I was reminded of rawhead rex from the books of blood by clive barker. Two creatures buried for an uncertain amount of time and bound by a stone. Deadly and dangerous. While the addition of the fey made this book interesting it still felt a bit too familiar to books I have read before.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: Laurell K. Hamilton is the best vampire trilogy author I have read since Anne Rice, I couldn't put her books down until I was finished all of them, I cant wait for her next one.
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Summary: Not as good as the others in this series,
Review: but still interesting.........
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Summary: New Powers
Review: I thought this book was totally awsome, I really think it was great. The book brought in some new feelings from Anita to Jean-Claude, and I am so in love with Jean-Claude. Not in a creepy way, I just love his character! I think his whole crew is so mysterious and dark, I like all his werewolves and other 'creatures'. Whatever happened to Gretchen? Does anyone know? I am totally in love with Anita Blake and her stories, it's very well written and interesting. I look forward to reading "The Killing Dance".
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