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Summary: A fun, enticing read...
Review: The Laughing Corpse is fun and enticing. It's a great read.
Too bad that the later books in the series do not live up to the flavor and quality set forth at the beginning of the series.
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Summary: Good second book
Review: This book keeps up the momentum from the first, while also letting us learn more about Anita. Who she is, what her values are, what that means, etc. We also see the dark side of her job as an animator. It really helps set a solid stage for future character development on her part. It's a good second chapter to this incredible series.
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Summary: no e-book?!
Review: Why is this the only book in the series that isn't an e-book?? Just finished Guilty Pleasures and was looking forward to reading this one right away but can't crack a book at work.. will take me weeks to finish this at home. *sigh*
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Summary: Better than the first
Review: After being introduced to Anita and Jean-Claude and the rest of the gang in "Guilty Pleasures", "Laughing Corpse" moves us along nicely. This book concentrates more on Anita's burgeoning power as a zombie raiser, and eventually a necromancer.I am really enjoying the series. It is my favorite at the moment. Cheers LKH!
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Summary: Good Enough To Bring Me Back
Review: After reading the first Anita Blake vampire hunter novel, GUILTY PLEASURES, I was intrigued enough to return to author Hamilton's world. This second book is at least as good as the first, but I found it immediately falling into a holding pattern. I wanted to learn more about this world where humans and vampires co-exist. But instead, Hamilton briefly skims by the legal and social issues which make the concept so interesting. I wanted to see some sort of advancement between the characters of Anita and Jean Claude, but it feels the same as it did in the first novel. I enjoyed the action scenes and much of the horror, but I felt the crime scene with Anita throwing body parts across the room was uncharacteristic and silly. My only other problem (and part of the blame falls on the editor for this) is that many times Hamilton assumes certain actions for the characters without writing them. For instance, she describes characters entering a room, and, moments later, they are standing up from a chair to leave. When did they sit down? She skips certain actions that take me out of the story. Not a big deal, but it's very distracting. Anyway, like GUILTY PLEASURES, THE LAUGHING CORPSE is good enough for me to return for the third book.
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Summary: More good bloody fun
Review: So... what would you do for a million dollars? Anita "just says no" to human sacrifice, but not everyone has her scruples. This second book in the series carries on in the same vein as the first, continuing her slide toward what she considers "moral ambiguity" and we call "steamy love scenes". Plus the title is just plain cool.
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Summary: A must read
Review: My mom brought this book home from the library one day. I thought it looked interesting enough, I might as well give it a try I thought. I started reading it and didn't put it down until I had finished the whole book at five o'clock in the morning! I was absolutely hooked. This book was clever, witty, and best of all entertaining. The Anita Blake series is the most delightful and exciting series I've read since Terry Brooks's Word/Void series. If you enjoy him, you'll enjoy Laurell K. Hamilton.
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Summary: Catchy Title great book
Review: Anita Blake has refused to raise a two hundred year old zombie for a wealthy man. It would require a human sacrifice and she is unwilling to do that. Apparently, the man has found someone else with less scruples. A man eating zombie is terrorizing St. Louis and Anita has to face down a voodoo queen to stop it. This second of the Anita Blake series is just as exciting as the first. She takes on the Senora, a very powerful voodoo queen and ex lover of her mentor Manny. There are many bizarre twists and turns. Anita has to look to her past and her mother's side of the family for answers to this crisis. Very hard to put down.
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Summary: fast paced, kicking
Review: Anita Blake is a gun-toting, knife-wielding, tougher than any one else out there vampire slayer. The action is fast paced, the plot has great and interesting turns, and the heroine is intelligently written. After reading this one, all other novel series seem somewhat duller and more predictable. This series has displaced all others (and I read hundreds of books yearly) as my favorite.
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Summary: 2nd in a great series
Review: I didn't find this book racist as another reviewer did.
I did find much of the book gun obsessed however. It's clearly something the author is interested in.
In the second book of the series we are treated to the same fresh take on the supernatural that we got in "Guilty Pleasures".
Anita Blake prefers to have those around her perceive her as the tough-as-nails excutioner of the undead. We are privy to her thoughts when those around her get a glimpse of the real Anita, and often as not, she isn't comfortable with that. But then again who is?
This installment features an interesting take on her profession as an animator and gives us some idea of the ethics involved in raising the dead.
Recommended.
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