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Summary: Good, good, good!
Review: This book is a good continuance of the series, and has as much blood and gore as any other Anita Blake novel, but I still have to conciede that BLOODY BONES is not as exceptional as LUNATIC CAFE. It is not to say that the book is not interesting. Anita is in her element, being hip-dip in alligators. As an unlikely mentor to the Lawrence (call me Larry) animator in training and supernatural specialist, she is quite superb. Her personal life is also, shall we say, rather unusual. (Maybe she does have a thing for monsters.) Still, I have to hope for more intrigue and dry humor in the next Anita Blake book. Long live Anita
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Summary: Hard to put down
Review: She's BAAAACK! Anita Blake, vampire hunter, is summoned to Branson, Missouri to raise the dead in a family cemetery to determine who the land actually belongs to. Quickly enough, she's up to her neck in trouble with numerous bad guys: vampires, a monster from a Scottish nursery rhyme and a wealthy local lawyer. It's one of those books that you can't put down and are sad to see end
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Summary: This is not her most "characteristic" Anita Blake.
Review: While I will continue to grab and devour anything by Ms. Hamilton and most especially the novels about
Anita Blake, in this one she has Ms. Blake act hopeless and helpless not one, but three times. This was not her best.
I would award that honor to "Lunatic Cafe." Can't wait for "Death Dance."
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Summary: A must read!
Review: Anita Blake is back and tougher than ever. Her boss, Bert, wants her to do a job in Branson, MO which also puts her on the trail of a serial killer. Mix that together with fairies, feys and creatures from nursery rhymes and she's up to her neck in monsters... again.
With Richard back in St. Louis and Jean-Claude at her side, Anita needs every ounce of sarcasm left to keep him at bay. But, by working together to reach the Master of Branson, Jean-Claude finally discovers one of the keys to unlocking the secret of Anita.
Hail the return of Anita, Larry, Jean-Claude and Jason in another whirlwind adventure as they search for the killer of teenagers in Branson.
Can Laurell K. Hamiton keep getting better? Yup and I expect her to continue...
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Summary: Laurell Hamilton just keeps getting better!
Review: Laurell Hamiltons take on monsters is fresh and fun. Anita
Blake is the kind of heroine anyone can enjoy. Anita has a graveyard to raise, an apprentice to teach, an amourous vampire with a werewolf servant, a randy faire bartender with a secret and a serial killer to handle in Branson, MO. So what does one "tough as nails vampire slayer"
do? She takes it one crisis at a time of course! A must read for monster fans and fanatics.
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Summary: This book takes a bite out of the vampire genre!
Review: This book blew me away. It was a different type story than the usual vampire series. When the cover of the books states "Anita Blake-Vampire Hunter", you can't help being interested. Anita Blake is a self=assured monster hunter in a short skirt who carries an aresenal around with her at all times. She also happens to date both a vampire and a werewolf in her spare time. In this book, there seems to be two separate stories that meld into one. First she is asked to animate the dead to settle a land dispute in Branson, Missouri. While doing so, she is called into a police investigation of the slaughter deaths of three teenage boys. Then another death of a teenage girl in her home-drained of blood. Along the way with the help of another animator co-worker and her vampire boyfriend, Anita works to solve the mystery of Bloody Bones. I truly enjoyed this book, even though a first-person commentary is not usually my style, in this book it really works. Anita Blake has a biting persona that makes for a fun read whether you are into monster stories or not. Remeber this is not the first book in the Anita Blake series. I happened to read them in a backwards order, but it did not take away from my enjoyment
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Summary: She just can't stop!
Review: Laurell K. Hamilton's "Anita" series just keeps getting better and better. I cant put them down!
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Summary: The best one yet! Lots of Jean-Claude!!
Review: It is official that I'm addicted to this series. I've even neglected the Merry Gentry series, Laurell K. Hamilton's faerie novels, which I started reading before the Anita Blake one. This is my favorite one to date. This series just keeps getting better and better! And the best part is that there is a lot of Jean-Claude in this one. The most I'd read him was in Circus of the Damned, and there are only bits and pieces of him in the other three, but he plays a more prominent role here. Bloody Bones illustrates the most challenging monsters Anita has ever had to deal with. Teenagers have been slaughtered in a small city of Missouri. The culprit is a creature unlike anything Anita has ever seen. It is stronger than a vampire, more dangerous and immortal to the core. To make matters worse, she has to raise an entire graveyard of three-hundred-year-old corpses to determine the fate of the graveyard's rather lucrative land, which is owned by a family of immortal faeries. Anita suspects that the graveyard raisings and the murders are connected, and with the help of her friends she is determined to bring all of those involved down...Bloody Bones, like its predecessors, is nonstop action from beginning to end. The suspense is incredible, the fast-paced plot riveting. But it's more than just the action and suspense that kept me glued to this book. I loved that I finally got to know Jean-Claude in a deeper level. We learn more about Jean-Claude's background and history in a rather sexy bubble bath scene. JC and Anita fans will love to know that there is some closeness between them in this offering -- a fleeting closeness, but an important one nevertheless. And the best part is that Anita's werewolf boyfriend Richard is not in the way. I loved it! Laurell K. Hamilton describes Jean-Claude's sensuality in such a way that he's almost tangible. He's definitely one of the sexiest characters I've read. I also got to read about some great characters that were back after some notable absence, like Larry. I also like werewolf Jason. Anyway, this is my favorite offering. As said earlier, this series keeps getting better and better. I cannot wait to read the next one. In the meantime, I recommend Bloody Bones most highly...
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Summary: I'm hooked, yet part of this is annoying...
Review: I admit I've read the first five books of Anita Blake in just a few weeks. I'm hooked on the sexual tension, the action, violence and the fiction. Yet, I just keep getting annoyed with the vampires. From the beginning all they do is play games. They can never just have a conversation, or answer a simple question, or leave people alone... Jean Claude is a little better in this book, but he's still a stuck up prissy pretty boy who can't dress and always needs Anita to save him, and yet thinks he's powerful enough to keep trying to seduce her. It's not even about vampire politics, it's just games. I just want to slap them all silly and tell them to just do and say what ever it is they want and get it over with. Arghhh, maybe it's this frustration that also has me hooked, because I'll keep reading her books even though I know the vamps will only keep getting worse. But I'm looking forward to more sex in the next books...
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Summary: Anita Blake #5 - The Best & Scariest Book Yet!!
Review: Anita Blake is a feisty, independent, 21st century lady who's got attitude with a capital "A." Animator, necromancer, called by vampires everywhere "The Executioner, she is tops in her field and a woman of many talents. The St. Louis Police Department's Regional Preternatural Investigation Team has made her a full fledged member, a civilian expert, and she is on call 24/7 to help solve their more grizzly cases. Unfortunately Anita prefers to date the undead and the "lunarly disadvantaged." She is involved with Richard Zeeman, rugged, outdoor type, science teacher by day, and otherwise a werewolf. Jean Claude, Master Vampire, sophisticate, unbelievably handsome and sexiest vamp around town, also has a hold on her affections. What's a girl to do?
Bert, the greedy, unscrupulous owner of Animators, Inc., and Anita's boss, has already taken money in exchange for Anita's services on a new case; services he doesn't know whether she is able to perform. Millions of dollars are at stake, and Anita may be the only animator powerful enough to do the job. So she leaves St. Louis for the rural town of Branson, Missouri. Her mission is to raise an entire graveyard of zombies in order to settle some land dispute issues. The bones have been disturbed and separated, and the corpses are at least 300 years-old. The older the corpse, the bigger the sacrifice needed for a raising, and the more powerful an animator has to be. Another matter of great concern - someone, or something is killing local youths. An ancient, psychotic, sword-wielding vampire, and his renegade cohorts, are most likely involved in the grotesque multiple murders. Against her better judgement, Anita calls on Jean Claude for help, since she isn't receiving any from the local police. The idea is to go through the area's Master Vampire - Serephina - and petition her to rein in her monsters. The story can only become scarier with Serephina in on the action.
And yet another complication arises - a fey family, the Bouviers, is involved in the graveyard-land dispute. Brother and sister, Magnus and Dorcus Bouvier are faeries, Homo arcanus, and proprietors of The Bloody Bones, a bar and eatery in the Ozarks. Anita and Larry Kirkland, an animator trainee and Anita's new protégé, pay a visit to ask the owners some questions about their estate holdings and discover that faery magic, glamour, is being used, illegally, to bring in customers.
The tone of the series gets darker and richer with every book, as does Anita's character. Initially, she is only an animator and The Executioner, a vampire hunter, convinced that fighting monsters is the right thing to do. Now, as her necromancy powers become stronger, she's not so sure that all the monsters are all bad. What exactly is the price she is paying for each new victory? Action and adventure-wise, "Bloody Bones" is one of Ms. Hamilton's best books yet. She is an excellent writer who, with much flair and pizzazz, mixes fantasy with mystery, romance and dark humor. The mystery is at the fore of her novels and the supernatural takes second place, almost taken for granted as part of Anita Blake's natural world. And Ms. Blake is a delight - witty, savvy, hard-boiled, as in tough and a major cynic with a tender heart. I highly recommend this series. A Warning, however - to really enjoy these novels, and the characters' development, the books should be read in order. (at least the 1st four).
JANA
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