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Summary: The Best out of them ALL!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This has got to be my favorite book out of the series because Richard & Anita get back together.(sorry for those who haven't read it yet:-P).
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Summary: I don't like the werewolf stuff as much as the vampires ...
Review: So I didn't enjoy that aspect of this book. Anita's coming undone as a human being the more powerful she becomes as a necromancer, which is interesting to watch. It would be more interesting if Hamilton stopped piling on special attributes on Anita. What CAN'T the woman do now? Leap buildings? Fly? In the next book, she'll probably become the leader of a pack of werehawks and we WILL find out she can fly. Less of the "furballs" and more of the vamps. Asher intrigues me. Another sexy vampire in love with Anita. Maybe she should play around a little bit.
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Summary: By far the weakest in the serious
Review: I discovered Anita Blake about a month ago and have just finished the series. Hamilton is not much of a wordsmith, but she does an amazing job of holding your attention through her vivid characterizations and the neverending twists and turn the story takes. Saddly this book was missing what the author does best. There is very little story, which is odd since she usually tries to cram too many plots into her books and the characters were almost indistinguishable from each other. Even the old familiar ones didn't act like themselves. Another growing problem is that with each book she is enlarging the details of her world and the contradictions are mounting at an alarming rate. For instance early in the serious it was explained that having the first mark protected her from being infected by a wereanimal, but in this book she is afraid of being infected. Also the vampires are now very easy to kill, where as in other books it was a lot tricker. Another put-off was the explaination of S&M terms and the constant discussion of homosexual vs straight. Does Hamilton really think that her readers need everything spelled out? Not to mention that it takes away from the erotic quality of the work to try to define things in such a mundane fashion. Of course I'll read the next one, I just hope it is a lot better then this one.
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Summary: I am disappointed
Review: I have read them all so far and enjoyed them greatly. I have to admit I'm torn on all the steamy sex stuff ... it appeals to my prurient side but does interfere with the overall plot. I miss the mystery plots of the first several books...now its all relationship. Anita belongs with Jean-Claude or with neither of them - not Richard (Edward's not a bad idea - but I vote for JC). And I am sick of hearing how perfect they are. I would also like to see Jean-Claude save Anita some time instead of the other way around ... you're (she's) emasculating the men. He comes to the rescue and she ends up saving him. He needs to be stronger (not tougher, meaner or cooler... stronger). I don't know if the author reads these reviews ... but I read some of them and I'm not alone in my disappointment. Change is good, development is good, sex is good. Plots are important.
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Summary: What's happened?
Review: What made the Anita Blake series so enjoyable was its original characterization and clever plot lines. This last book in the series feels like a betrayal. I'll be the first to admit that in the beginning I was hooked on the possibility of romance between Jean-Claude and Anita, but I had hoped for something more classic that a "bodice ripper." True love that spans centuries is a great deal more interesting than tawdry sex. Richard can't possibly be Anita's soul mate. He's just not strong enough for her.The plot seems to suffer as much as the weak characterization in this novel - at least as far as Anita, Richard and Jean-Claude are concerned. Anita's actions are contrived and implausible in this book if you compare it to the first three books in the series. Perhaps this series should have ceased several books ago (at least two) before it became disappointing. Hopefully the ninth book will return to the serie's roots and will redeem this effort, and if it does, I almost hope it will draw the series to a satisfying and logical conclusion. I'm sure Ms. Hamilton's other series will provide a great deal of entertainment and that she has many more series ideas up her sleeve.
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Summary: A book that blends the real with fantasy beautifully
Review: I really enjoyed this book because most books are very weak on emotions creating the ideal human were everything ends happily ever after. That is not real life. In real life you don't always understand why somebody did something all you can do is make an educated guess. You react in the moment not completely sure why you did what you did later on but having to live with the results of your actions. I love the way Hamilton has work relate to personal and vice versa it makes it believable even though it deals with fantasy.
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Summary: Truly one of Hamilton's best
Review: For the first time in the series, I began to feel Anita Blake unraveling a bit. And I think I as the reader was meant to. Many times through the series, I've been left going "Huh? Why in the world did you do THAT?" In this book, we begin to see the whys and wherefores. More importantly, Anita begins to see them. It takes a few of her friends spelling a few things out for her, along with a lot of faith and limb-walking on her part, for her to see them, but when she does, there is an obvious turning point in her way of thinking. Towards the end of the book, during the final climactic scenes, I had to stop and take a few deep breaths, as Anita faces her greatest fear: losing what is left of her humanity. It is a price she is willing to pay, for the payoff she should receive. All the time, I was willing her to hold on to the piece of herself that was solely hers.
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Summary: What's up with the "why"?
Review: To all you people with the stupid "why" questions... She's the author, she writes what she will, and that's the end of that. She's always been a great author, and still is. If you can't accept it, and if you can't see it from the other end, well too bad for you. I think that the book was great. It gives variation to the series. All the other books consist of constant Jean-Claude et Mademoiselle Anita type things. (Not that I don't love Jean-Claude, the coolest Master of the City St. Louis has ever had...) A little different, true, but it tilts things a bit, makes the story a little less predictable, a little less mono-toned, you know? If she kept with the same thing every time, everyone'd be bored to death. Laurell K. Hamilton's a GREAT author, and if you disagree with that, then I'd like to see YOU write a better novel! Until you do, either shut up and read, or go somewhere else. >:( Really, peoples. This is my FAVORITE DAMN AUTHOR YOU'RE TEARING UP HERE! True this book's not as grand and as cookie-cut as the others, but that's the interesting thing about it; it's diversity. If you narrow minded people don't understand, then go read something easier to digest, like Goose-Bumps, where everything's cookie cut and where all the endings are the same, and all that changes are the names! Go take your uncalled for, totally absurd, not to mention stupid, criticism that's beyond criticism somewhere else!
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Summary: Not her best yet, but her worst is still the best!
Review: I've found the Anita Blake series to be one of the most entertaining I've come across in a long time. Anita's dark side facinates me, and the fact that she pushed the boundaries even more by channeling Raina completely, pleases me. I've always liked Anita because she's not a pushover, and she stands up for herself. This book is no different, but I do wish she would get off of Richard, for God's sake! As confused as he is about himself, he would only drag her down, if they were together. Jean-Claude is more her equal, and wouldn't need to be babied, or handled with kid gloves. She did the right thing in going to rescue him, and I really liked how far Hamilton went in developing the pack relations. Good work as always! Now, just sort out Anita's love life, and everything would be perfect. Hmmm. Maybe too perfect.... AJRichardson
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Summary: Anita Blake,charming(NOT),cute(NOT),explosive,cutting,witty
Review: I picked this book up in the Houston airport, and couldn't stop reading it all the way to Japan! I was hooked! Unfortunately, I lost the book at the airport in Japan, and didn't get to read the last 50+ pages. Anita Blake is a great protagonist, and heroine. No wimpy stuff, just good old fashioned wham! bam! thanks, for the memories. She is constantly finding herself, and her powers. There are no great moral stories here, just a great story. No lessons, just a great way to relieve the stress of real life, and be glad that real life isn't like this book! She is a strong personality, and you find yourself wishing to be more like her. I've ordered more of the books, so I can start at the beginning of the saga. Great stuff, baby!
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