Blue Moon

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Summary: Good, but too much emphasis on sex.
Review: I really have enjoyed all of Laurell's works - she writes novels in the style I would if I could write. On this specific book, I do understand the use of sex with the lycanthrope rituals. However, like a previous reviewer, I would like to read more about her relationship with Edward and her raising of the dead.

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Summary: Loved it! Couldn't wait to crack it open!
Review: This one was better than the prior one. Anita and Richard together at last. I kinda missed Ronnie and a couple of other constant characters but Anita Blake is back to her regular excellent form. If you liked the others and couldn't put them down, you'll love this one.

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Summary: Go Richard!
Review: I am a steadfast Richard fan, how can you not love him? I am just glad that Anita finally figured out what a catch he is, her methods though leave a little room for more tact. Why is it that the series starts out with a book called Guilty Pleasures which is totally innocent, then goes to a book called Blue Moon and suddenly goes crazy? Oh well, just as the others this book was a quick easy an fun read.

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Summary: An action packed,roller-coaster ride of creepy crawly fun!
Review: "Blue Moon", the eighth book in the Anita Blake series is everything I have come to expect in a Laure K.Hamilton novel. She has developed her characters to a point where they seem like living, breathing people. I almost expect to find vampires and werewolves living in St.Louis, (wouldn't that make a night at the Fox Theatre more interesting?). Ms. Hamilton has kept the romance steamy and the horror bloody. I couldn't ask for anything more!

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Summary: A little too much a little too fast.
Review: In holding with the Anita Blake series this book has fell below the level of the first books. There was too much going on and not enough of it was developed. It left you with rushed conversations and no feeling of completion at the end. In the whole book there was only one part that had the origonal magic, when Anita and Damian are talking on the bed. One can only hope that in future books there won't be 1,500 pages of content in 500 pages (I for one would not have minded reading 1,500 pages of Anita)

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Summary: Things go crazy at the full moon, including this one!
Review: This latest book in the Anita Blake series does not disappoint readers. Anita is called to defend Richard, and in so doing discovers more about herself, and her abilities. I enjoyed this latest book because Anita finally deals with her lingering misgivings about Richard's wolf nature. And to tell you more, well, that would ruin the book for you! Look for more were-lepoard development, and Anita to learn more about her necromancy abilities, as well as some things about the marks that Jean-Claude hasn't told her... A good read!

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Summary: Blue Moon blew me away
Review: First of all, don't even think about reading Blue Moon without reading the other seven books in the series first. You don't want to miss all the history and character development preceding this story. That said, in Blue Moon Anita Blake once again finds herself "ass deep in alligators," this time in Tennessee where she's gone to get one of her two "preternatural studs," Richard, out of a phony rape charge. Between her own growing powers, trouble from the local bands of vampires and werewolves who don't know what to make of her, and the escapades of the vamps and wereanimals Jean-Claude sent along to help her, and you've got a fast-moving story with plenty of plot twists and turns. Anita is a fascinating character; a human whose powers as necromancer and one-third of a triumvirate with Jean-Claude and Richard have lately caused her to question her humanity; a woman whose ability to kill without blinking keeps her and her friends alive while at the same time appalling her. Like any truly well-crafted character, Anita Blake is growing and changing. One hopes Laurell K. Hamilton will continue to let us share Anita's journey.

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Summary: Another page turning book from Laurel.
Review: I was very skeptical about this book at first. I could tell from the title and the front teaser that this book would focus on the werewolf side of Anita Blake's life. Her once boy friend, Richard, has been up to this point a character I just couldn't warm up to. However, the plot of the book hit me like a handgrenade and I just could not put it down. Finally, Richard is acting more like a werewolf than a boy scout. Also, there was enough fang action to keep the vampire lover in me satisfied. Hamiliton gave us some new characters to add to Anita's supernatural family and really developed Anita's relationship with other characters. I really enjoyed the ride Hamilton gave me in Blue Moon. I must admit and I can't comment on if I liked it or not, but the most brutally scene I have read in Hamilton was in this novel. Can't wait to see what Anita is up to next.

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Summary: I can't wait for the next one!!
Review: I'm just glad she finally realized that Richard is the one to be with not JC. JC is just using Anita for her power. Richard actually loves her. I just hope that Anita realizes that JC is the one to go bye-bye. If you would like to share your opinions with me feel free to.

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Summary: Freakin' incredible!
Review: I read it in one sitting, just like I did all the others. I'm overjoyed just to have another Anita Blake book in my hand that is filled with rock'em-sock'em violence and mayhem. I'm glad Anita's role in the pard is explored further, and I'm intrigued by a glimpse into other packs. I feel, however, that the villains are given a cursory representation. Can't a major badass be fleshed out to be more than simply malevolent or short-sighted? Dispatching the bad guys has become almost routine; if Anita has enough firepower/supernatural allies/magic on her side, she can whip them for good. I'd like to see a villain(ess?) worthy of Anita, one that gets by on daring and brains as much as she does, perhaps someone as physically unassuming as she is. This is still the best series, and I'm amazed that it shows no sign of flagging. There is so much more to explore in Anita's universe. I'll be glad to see Edward again in the next book. This has to be said: Richard is a weenie, and Jean Paul is lust incarnate.