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Summary: If you would be a vampire or run with the pack READ THIS.
Review: I spent four hours combing bookstores to find this book after not be able to wait to order it. I understand where some of the reviews are coming from..it is not your normal book. However, for those of us who like the world of the abnormal enough to devote serious time to pretending to be someone else, such as a vampire it is an amazing read. For us the sex and pack politics is everything we think it should be. The descriptions of pack behavoir are what we dream them to be. I agree the plot seems contrived at places to provide the charactors with something to bounce against. But that is not nessarily a bad thing. It is the people, places and powers that make this and all of her book well worther the read. For the person bored with this world, the one who would run with a pack or be a vampire this is the world you want.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I've read all of the Anita Blake series, and was almost reluctant to start this one, I didn't know where else Ms. Hamilton could go with this series and was prepared to be disappointed. I WASN"T!!! It's a good read that explores the relationship of Anita and Richard. Keep up the good work Ms. Hamilton.
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Summary: This one leaves you waiting breathlessly for the next!
Review: The more in depth Anita gets with her powers the more interesting the whole story becomes! There seems to be some "steamy" times ahead! I can't wait!
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Summary: It takes a little thought to like this one
Review: When I first finished this book I had to think about it. I didn't like it, but I was unsure why. It was for many of the same reasons that most of the other reviewers didn't like it, the change in the characters. After I thought about it though, this book, and the character changes that go with it are acceptable. Everyone changes, sometimes drastically. Anita, Jean-Claude, and Richard have been having a very tramatic life in the recent books, because of that I am willing to let the drastic character developments slide. If it were not for Hamiltons well crafted characters I would have as much of a problem with this book as many of the other readers, but a good character can go a long way. The story, well the story was on the same lines as the last few books. Anita has far too many balls to juggle during the course of the book, and they all seem to come together too nicely at the end...but that is fiction. It is like real life, but not 100%. This is a book about vampires, werewolves and a chic who raises people from the dead. Our beliefs have to be suspended to some degree whenever reading a story like this. I have to go check out this Hamilton web page thing now. I didn't know there was one. It should be better advertised.
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Summary: Anita Blake- Is there a limit?
Review: I'm really upset that Anita seems to gain new powers in each new novel. Hamilton should have used the same character devlopment found in her Nightseer book for the Anita Blake series. The nightseer enchantress gained a new power, but she had limits (she was also stripped of her master's rank and sent back to school to learn control her power). Too bad that there's nobody around to "control" Anita. If someone tried Anita would just blow them away or develop a new "power" to combat them. However, this book is slighty better than Burnt Offerings (horrible story). I hope her next novel will be of the same caliber as her first Blake books.
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Summary: Bad to the Bone
Review: I usually love all kinds of vampire/supernatural stories and, to begin with, the Anita Blake series was no exception. The basic premise of a world where all the legendary creatures were real and believed in if not accepted, was very tantalizing. Add to that a hard-hitting, smart-aleck heroine who is the vampire executioner, well it sure sounded good to me! And, for the first couple of books, it WAS good. A little bloody at times but that's what happens when you mix vampires, werewolves and zombies. Anita's inner torment over whether or not to sleep with the bad guys was kind of boring but didn't get in the way of the plot too much so it was OK... Until the last few books and especially Blue Moon. Blue Moon was absolutely the worst book of the genre that I have ever read. I agree with other reviewers who say that the violence and sex was the entire plot and that Anita has become an unreal heroine -- supernatural powers, sex appeal to attract any living (or non-living) creature within a hundred miles, and an attitude which besides being hypocritical, is very boring. I hope Hamilton will give her urge to write erotica a rest -- she isn't very good at it -- and go back to the basics. Get rid of the whining were-whatevers, keep the charactors who add more than sex and violence to the plot, and, for heaven's sake, take Anita down a few notches to make her believable -- and maybe even likeable (which she currently is NOT) once again.
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Summary: Necessary but not great.
Review: I love the Anita Blake series but the only thing keeping me reading is the characters. I can accept the changing direction of Anita, the excessive violence, and ridiculous level of sexual tension in the last two novels, but where's the plot? The mystery plot has become so secondary to character development that it is almost a whole different genre. Saying all that, this book will still be a must to Anita fans and seems necessary to come full circle of the Killing Dance. I just hope that next novel has a more consistant plot or it may be my last.
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Summary: A post-climax disappointment
Review: I love the series, and I love Anita. But, it seems that this story is rather anticlimactic. First of all, there are a lot of loose ends and it seems at many times, odd situations are thrown in to make characters do things as if it were a desperate attemt to push the story along. First of all, since our pristine Anita can't be sex-obssessed, we have Raina inhibit her body so she can be a nymphomaniac against her will. But instead of hot and steamy, we get droll and boring. Jean Claude does a complete 180 by suddenly turning desperate and pathetic. He begs Anita to stay with him, which is completely a non-Jean action. JC's supposed to be cocky, suave, and a seducer, not husbandly and immature. Lots of the characters' original convictions and traits are thrown out of window (Richard's respect for women, as he sleeps with a lot of them; Anita's chastity; and Jean Claudes cool), and leaves me confused in reading it. "What happened?" I wonder. LKH doesn't take this opportunity to develop Richard. We know everything about Jean Claude, but Richard is still left rather two dimensional. It seems a waste of plot usage. I think that the lack of depth in Richard is the reason this book seems more like a comic book. This edition is a little shallow and underdeveloped. The only characters that get developed are Cherry, Zane, and Jason. I hope the next book focuses more on the characters than action and sex. It was the depth of emotions of the characters that made the action exciting and the steamy scenes sensual. Without this foundation, this book really does read out to be more like a comic book with raunchy sex and too much gung-ho action.
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Summary: A "Must Read" for all Horror fans.
Review: I think Hamilton writes to make Anita Blake come across like someone we all would know, yet with all the supernatural occurrences it makes for some very great reading that is indeed entertainment for the "Horror" fan. What a combination!!
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Summary: Oh utter joy. Weres.
Review: Hum, how can I put this into words. Oh, yes. Here's a phrase. I hate reading about the god damned weres! They're are so boring! I'm tired of reading about the were leopards practically sucking their thumbs and crying. I'm tired of everyone falling in love with Anita. I'm sick of Anita's inflated ego. I've never heard of such a self-absorbed person. I'm disgusted that the only point in this book is to make Jean-Claude look bad so Anita can run off and have sex with Richard and not care. I'm actually disgusted that anyone wants to love her. Her own family must hate her by now. For the love of all that is good in the world please get rid of the weres. I don't think I can read another were book. I don't like reading about were behavior instead of an actual plot. I think Anita and this whole series are just about to fall into a very deep hole. One that even Anita can't crawl out of, God forbid that she actually make a mistake. The series made a fatal mistake back at The Killing Dance where they threw caution into the wind and began the sex spree. I read these books for what they were in the beginning. That would be the vampires and the nifty plots for those who can't remember. I didn't buy this book to read about Anita having sex. This book was so boring I could hardly finish it. I believe the almost nonexistent plot was this: Anita wakes up. Anita makes Jean-Claude look bad. Anita saves Richard. Anita gets a little bloody. Anita turns down every one's offers for sex but Richards. Anita learns more about weres. Anita has sex. Anita gets bloody again. The End.
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