Blue Moon

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Summary: If you liked this series...
Review: Then I have to agree with the customer who recommended Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series (also available from amazon.com, of course). While I'm waiting for the next Anita installment, I decided to try out "One for the Money" and was totally hooked. Squeaky-tight plotting, scarey scenes and sexual tension with gut-busting humor. I laughed all weekend as I went through 3 of the books. Stephanie vs Anita? Anita would probably get mad at her and blow her away. (And then Stephanie's Ranger would blow Anita away.) But I'd prefer to spend time with Stephanie. She doesn't have any vamps or such in her world, but her attitude runs along the same lines as Anita, only with a lot more humanity involved. Now the real question: Anita's Richard vs Stephanie's Morelli? Both hunks, both sweetie-pies... I'll have to buy another installment of both series and think about it some more. Life is good.

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Summary: Wonderfully written!
Review: The author wrote this book well, and she kept me on the edge of my seat, and I couldn't put it down. If there are any more books of hers available, I will be the first one to grab a copy!

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Summary: Finally Anita finds some balance.
Review: I enjoyed this book, but not as much as I enjoyed The Killing Dance. This one is big on detail and lycanthropy with the vampires taking a back seat, but it's great to see Anita finally find some balance between becoming a monster and remaining human. I look forward to the next one to see how she answers all the questions she raises in this book.

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Summary: Definitely back on track
Review: I'd been leery of recent books in this series because Anita was becoming more monstrous than the monsters she'd been hunting. In addition, the clothing and the sex were taking predominance over the plot. With Blue Moon I'm happy to say that the real, human Anita is back, hooray! But yes, the sex does dominate the plot, but it's better-written sex than before, fitting in with the flow of the writing and the plot. Unfortunately, we are still regaled with each and every piece of clothing that all the characters (of which there are too many, in my opinion, and all of them lust over Ms. Blake) wear -- and they change clothes often. A plot? Forget the plot in this book. Anita made a big relationship mistake two books ago, and now she's started to straighten things out, which is a giant step in the right direction for the series. Next book, I hope we'll get back to a real mystery/thriller, plus I hope to see in more detail some of the many fascinating creatures that inhabit Anita's world, such as the trolls in this volume. And I still want to meet Anita's family!

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Summary: Okay, I've had it.
Review: I don't know how to begin to explain all my negative feelings toward this book. I bought it so I could read about vampires. I did not buy this so I could read about erotica. If I wanted to read erotica I'd read romance novels or something that centers around sex. This is what this book is. Sex, sex, some more sex, and maybe a tiny amount of what made these books good in the first place. This book moved so slowly I felt as if I should put it out of it's misery, like you would a fataly wounded animal. It kept repeating itself over and over, or it seemed that way to me. The weres are dull characters and I hate reading about them. Richard, emotionally insecure wereleopards, Richard, emotionally insecure wereleopards. Jee, I loved the way she handled those situations. Sex, promises, sex, promises. Oh, and we can't forget Jason's unwanted advances, the two vampires unwanted advances, and just about everyone else not mentioned above. Sex, some gore, and some more sex. The next were book that surfaces I'll skip thanks. I'm tired of Anita's acts, her dominance over others, her ego, her infatuation with Richard and weres(ugh). And isn't there someone more powerful than her? God forbid that there should be someone more powerful than Anita Blake, ego-maniac that she is. Why can't she have a mentor or something? I think then I could tolerate her inflated ego if she had a hero, other than herself. I wish we could go one book without any mention of werewolves or leopards. I'm sick of these overemotional, insecure, almost unreal characters. I'm sick of Anita making it all better. And if we don't get some real and non-were characters and some real plot back, I'm quitting this series.

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Summary: Not up to previous efforts.
Review: While I loved most of the secondary characters in this book and they are worth the read, this book was very disappointing. I hate books where the female lead does something extremely stupid just to further the plot line and that is exactly how this book starts. Richard is in deep trouble and the vampires will cause more problems than they solve if they go along to help. So why didn't she take Edward as a back up. If I have to deal with some shady cops in broad daylight, I'd much prefer Edward at my back than a vamp who has to sleep during the day

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Summary: captivating
Review: My friend turned me onto the Anita Blake series, the middle of October 1998 and I finised the last of eight books today December 5, 1998. I read the last three in a week. They are well written and a page turner I couldn't put them down. It is like a addition. I am probably going to go through withdrawel if she doesn't write another one soon.

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Summary: an unexpectedly good book
Review: At first I wasn't going to read this book because I know that Richard and Anita were going to get together in it, and I couldn't stand Richard. But after reading everyone's reviews I decided to go ahead and get it, and I'm glad I did. It's a great book with new character, character development, more info about werewolves, and no Dolph bothering Anita about how many vamps she's killed recently (that always gets on my nerves). My favorite thing about the book would have to be learning about Damian and Anita's "link". I think it's a great development and will have more to do with future books. I can't wait to read the next one.

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Summary: boo, hiss
Review: Hey, look at me, I'm Anita Blake. I can leap tall buildings in a single bound not to mention save every wereleopard, wolf and vampire in sight. This book sucked, possibly more so than Burnt Offerings. Ms. Hamilton needs to be more realistic in her next book. She also needs to bring back Edward (maybe with a little more character development beyond the gloom and doom NRA fanaticist), Mrs. Pringle (and Custard), Larry, and Willie.

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Summary: Love the character, don't like this book
Review: L. Hamilton seems to have trapped herself in continuing downward spiral. With each book, she feels the need to one-up the previous in terms of the power of adversity that Anita Blake faces, and subsequently increases Anita's abilities in step. Gone is the gritty down-to-earth nature of Anita in the earlier books that was such a humorous juxtaposition to the bizarre world she lives in. Now she seems to be empowered to do almost anything; heal at will, summon apparently endless resources to deal with her problems, or call on her now long list of friends to help her. Anita's "if it's you or me, it's you" pragmatism of the earlier novels has become flippant disregard for others bordering on brutality. Further, the violence and gore attendent to the story appears to almost be the point instead of a byproduct, and frankly seems to be getting out of hand. Very disappointing. Ms. Hamilton, if you chance to read this - please, save this character. At the current rate in the next novel she will kill of the root of all evil in the universe, and then where will you be?