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Summary: If you ever wondered......
Review: This book answers a lot of questions most of us have had about various things in the Anitaverse,while keeping within the accepted lore of things preternatural yet providing a new and engaging spin to the old tales.Laurell K. Hamiltons writing just improves with time and Blue Moon keeps the pace we've come to expect with the rest of the series while following Anita and company around. It keeps you wondering what's next, surprising you with new revelations and monsters. Hard to put down and harder to forget, especially some of the quips that Anita utters. Wouldn't we all like to say those same things in that situation? But just perfect for a woman who is tough, street wise and as fast with her mouth as she is with her gun. All female heroines/detectives pale like an unfed vampire in comparison. No one does it better. This series is a must read for fans of mystery, vampires, werewolves and things that go bump in the night. If your new to the series, read them in order. But like the previous books in the series Blue Moon can stand alone and still be enjoyed.
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Summary: Simply-the best
Review: High school teacher and alpha werewolf Richard Zeiman is unable to cope with observing his former lover, zombie raiser and vampire executioner Anita Blake, in the arms of his rival, Jean Claude, master vampire of St. Louis. Richard leaves town to compete his thesis on preternatural biology. However, he selects the wrong town to study the Smokey Mountain troll because no one welcomes him in the area. Instead, the police frame him with the alleged raping of a local girl. When Anita learns that Richard has been incarcerated, she has no doubts oft his innocence. She immediately flies to Tennessee to arrange bail. She also ascertains that someone covets the land that the trolls currently inhabit and that individual is willing to exterminate the beings to obtain their desires. Like old times, Richard, Anita, and some of her supernatural pals work together in an effort to discover whom is the person performing the evil deeds in this small Tennessee town. One of the most endearing aspects of a Laurell K. Hamilton novel is that the reader can never guess the direction the story line is going to lead the reader to as the characters can end up in any situation. This is true of BLUE MOON, a first rate work fiction, that has appeal to mystery, fantasy, and horror fans. However, this particular work will appeal to a mainstream audience because it includes a maturing on the heroine's part as she learns that she does not have all of life's answers. It will be easier to believe in vampires and werewolves than wait for the next tale in this terrific series. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Blue Moon
Review: Fantastic....I love that her and Richard finally hooked up and would've liked to had seen then a little more together before the end of the book!
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Summary: Loved it!!
Review: Finally Anita and Richard get down and dirty!! I just love the ups and downs of their relationship. In blue moon, there is a lot of jealousy and mutual sexual tension. I love the fact that Anita feels torn between Jean Claude and Richard, it gives a little spice to the novels.
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Summary: BLUE MOON Introduces A More Vulnerable Anita Blake-Terrific!
Review: Anita Blake, Executioner, necromancer, lover and human servant to Jean-Claude - the charismatic Master Vampire of St. Louis, lupa of the Thronnus Roke Clan lukoi, and Nimir-ra of a pard of leopard lycanthropes, is changing...more so all the time. When Laurell Hamilton introduced her to us in "Guilty Pleasures," Book One of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series, she was a 24 year-old, smart, attractive, feisty, super-independent dynamo, who raised the dead for a living. She was almost a normal 21st century career girl. Of course she staked rogue vampires as a sideline, but we all have our quirks. Anita's preternatural powers have been steadily increasing, and in "Blue Moon," book eight in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series, the lines are really beginning to blur between her humanity and the supernatural. Always an uncompromising and tough lady, she has developed a hardness, a detachment, that frightens even herself.
Anita, Richard Zeeman, (an alpha werewolf and her old boyfriend), and Jean-Claude, (her present lover), had formed a Triumvirate of power - Master Vampire, Ulfric and necromancer. In other words, when the three connect, they exude tremendous force and are able to do much more magic than any one or two can do alone. The three are still bound to each other, even though Richard is furious with Anita for dumping him. She had to choose between "a flesh eater and a bloodsucker." Do you see a pattern here?
Late one evening Anita receives a phone call from Richard's brother. Zeeman had been spending the summer in Meyerton, Tennessee, studying the Lesser Smokey Mountain Trolls which live in the area, and fulfilling the requirements for his Masters degree. He has been arrested for the rape of a local women, and is obviously innocent of the charge. Richard is squeaky clean, the ultimate Boy Scout, and very gentle, especially for a lycanthrope. To make the situation worse, a full moon will occur in five days. As luck would have it, this month, August, is a blue moon month - that means two full moons in 31 days - a phenomenon which arises every 3-4 years. And we all know what happens to werewolves during a full moon, don't we? Richard has not "come out of the closet," so to speak, to his parents, his employers, or to many other humans. Basically, he needs to get out of jail pronto. Anita flies down to Meyerton to give him a hand and get him a good attorney. At Jean-Claude's insistence she is accompanied by an entourage of body guards. Colin, the master of the local vampires does not want Anita and cohorts on his turf - for any reason and has made some serious threats. So, vampires Asher and Damian, and lycanthropes Jason, Zane, Cherry, and Nathaniel are there to keep her safe - although, as always, Anita turns out to be the one who does the most protecting. Werewolves Jamil and Shang-Da are around for Richard, to assist him and to join in the Blue Moon celebrations with Verne, the local Ulfric and his pack..
Freeing Richard proves easier than tangling with Colin and crew, plus the corrupt local police, and an assortment of other heinous monsters - there's pure evil on the loose in these hills!! There are some interesting twists in character development in "Blue Moon." Anita is more vulnerable here than previously. She has to confront her mixed feelings for both Richard and Jean-Claude, come to terms with Raina's munin - the vengeful spirit who possesses her from time-to-time, make a decision about her reluctant status as leoparde-lionee of the Saint Louis wereleopards, and face her own ignorance in terms of the power she possesses. Anita fears that she is rapidly becoming as much a monster as those she hunts...and loves. Hamilton succeeds beautifully in developing this vulnerable side of Anita, without sacrificing the plot. However, at this point in the series a change was needed. There had to be more to Anita than one tough cookie who goes up against the monsters and wins, repeatedly. This is one of Laurell Hamilton's best novels - tightly plotted, well structured, including wonderful dark humor, acerbic wit, and plenty of thrills and chills.
Just a word about the sexual content in "Blue Moon." I do not find it any more excessive or graphic than what one reads in most popular fiction - bestseller lists included - nor what is shown on afternoon TV. It would not be realistic to write about a healthy, single woman of 24 and exclude sex. Anyway, I loved this book and certainly recommend it!
Jana
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Summary: Somewhat bored and greatly disappointed
Review: This book--with the others in the series--are okay. Editors say that the author is "erotic" in these novels are wrong. There are a few spots in the last few books that are "sexual in content", but they are very rare. For a vampire series they are okay. If you want REAL erotic with vampire DO NOT READ this series. You will be greatly disappointed.
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Summary: Confused about Reviews
Review: Oh my goodness, I read some of the other reviews that were on this page and was completely mortified. I have now read all of the books in the Anita Blake series and am anxiously awaiting the next. Blue Moon is one of my favorite books out of the series, that is why I'm choosing to write a review on this one and few others.
At first I was disappointed that Jean-Claude was not going to be in this book but after a little bit of reading I felt more comfortable and willing to put that on the back burner, knowing that it would be something that showed up in the next book.
This book let me let out a breath that I surely knew that I was holding ::sigh:: Before this book I would have absolutley chosen Jean-Claude over Richard, but after, I wasn't so sure anymore and I liked that.
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Summary: Another Four Stars....
Review: I enjoyed this book, don't get me wrong; but what I didn't like was that much of it seemed forced. Strange for a book don't you think? I mean what is a book, but the author's words, and yet many of the scenes still seemed forced. In the first six or so entries of the book, much was made of Anita's self-imposed chastity, and here she is almost doing peep-shows! I understand wanting to add the element of erotic undertones, hey, I am all for it...but at the same time shouldn't you have your lead character be a little more true to form? I mean after all you did write her that way.
That is my one big complaint with this book. I enjoyed Anita getting away from her usual setting, and I also enjoyed learning more about her were-leopard pack and seeing them in action. I especially enjoyed the characters of Jason and Jamil.
There was a lot to digest in this book, but it flowed together rather nicely, I just wish LKH would spend more time on the story and less time setting up the 'love scenes.' Some drag on for ten or more pages, and in the end it basically just amounts to kissing a groping, keep them short and sweet and give us more story!!!
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Summary: Entertaining, yet disappointing read
Review: Perhaps I should clarify my opinion so that is well-defined. Let me say that it is not this book in particular that I am disappointed in; it's more the trend the books are following.
I really enjoyed the first few Anita Blake novels, but the more recent ones have started spiraling in a downward direction. My disappointment centers around Anita.
At the end of every novel, Anita grows more and more powerful (a pattern several others reviewers have noticed as well). Eventually, she will be so powerful that nobody will be able to compete with her. As a woman, it is refreshing to see an independent and strong female lead, but the stories are bordering on being ridiculous (and that's a serious comment for a fantasy series).
As a result of this shift, Jean Claude and even Richard are being emasculated, and one has to wonder why either one of them care about her, which leads me to my next point.
At the beginning of the series, Anita was wholesome (at times even in a irritating way), and the novels are degenerating into soft core pornography. From other reviews, I have gathered that this trend persists in the next novels. I think that Hamilton is trying to introduce too much of the Merry Gentry series into the Anita Blake novels. For those of you who have read the Merry Gentry series, you know that they are mostly just one sex scene tied sloppily to the next anticlimatically.
I think a distinction needs to be made between Anita enjoying good sex occasionally and Anita becoming too promiscous. I originally started reading the series for the story, but the story seems to be taking a back seat to the sex scenes. Hopefully, Hamilton will return to the older style of the novels, and leave the sex to Merry Gentry.
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Summary: Really Good
Review: Since the first book, I have become a devoted fan to the Anita Blake series. When I read the reviews on Blue Moon, I was a little worried. I went out and bought it anyway just to make my own evaluation. I actually came to really enjoy it as much as the previous books. I have to say I like Jean-Claude a lot more than Richard, but the plots in this book surrounding him was exciting. As for Anita, the book ended with her trying to control the munin, so the future books seem promising.
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