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Summary: One of the best
Review: This is one of the best books in the series, in my opinion. There's action, there's some funny parts, Anita mouths off to a couple people---it's exactly what I'm looking for in an Anita Blake novel.
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Summary: The hunt is on!
Review: A crazed zombie is on a killing rampage, someone wants her to raise a very old zombie and isn't taking no for an answer, a voodoo priestess has a personal vendeta...you'd think that would be enough to make Anita Blake's life miserable. But to add to her trouble the city's head vampire has the hots for her. What's a girl to do? If she's Anita Blake you can be sure she'll think of something.Laurell K. Hamilton's world is filled with vampires and other creepy crawlies...but it's also filled with page-turning stories you won't be able to put down.
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Summary: I'm hooked!
Review: A few months ago I read "The Killing Dance". I liked it a lot but thought the genre was not for me. Then I began at the beginning of the series which I usually do. I love Anita! Full out guts. Could barely put the book down. There is a lot of humor, compassion and wit on Anita's part. I am getting acquainted with all the characters, good and bad, that are a part of her life. Ms Hamilton has a vivid imagination! It makes waiting in the doctor's office a breeze! On to the next!
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Summary: Ok...so now I'm addicted!
Review: A couple of months ago I began Laurell Hamilton's "Guilty Pleasures". At first it was a bit of a turnoff. It seemed immensely dark and the sexual overtones seemed almost perverted. However, I picked it back up later and began to get further involved. I found that I enjoyed the book and really became involved in the "adventure" of it all. My opinion slowly began to change until I was fully caught up in the dangers the heroine, "Anita Blake" constantly faced. It was such a relief to find a heroine who was not constantly screaming and hoping for rescue but who rescued herself. I enjoyed the book enough to pick up several more books in the series. I have enjoyed getting acquainted with the continuing cast of characters. Ms Blake has a very imaginative approach to the supernatural, just a bit different than most, and all of the "supernaturas" are not entirely evil. A good book to read with a cup of hot chocolate while it rains outside.
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Summary: Woww.w....w..
Review: Another great book in the vampire hunter series. I couldn't put it down. First person narrator!!!
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Summary: A Gripping Read
Review: Hamilton has done it again. This is an amazing and gripping tale that will have you on the edge of your seat and wanting more. Anita has a terrible task ahead. She must kill a human to raise a 300 year old zombie but her morals forbid her from doing it. Really fascinating story.
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Summary: A, my name is Anita
Review: My biggest gripe about the first book in the series, "Guilty Pleasures," was that there was not enough of Anita's backstory. But in this book, Anita must deal with another animator, and for the first time we get an explanation of her gift and stories from her childhood. What struck me is that Anita and I are very similar. We're both women who lost their mothers at an early age. We're both short, although Anita has me beat by a few inches. She's part-Hispanic; I'm not but I look Hispanic. We were both brought up as Catholic. There are key differences. Confronted by vampires and voodoo, Anita clings to her faith while I rejected mine. And when Anita faces certain death, I waited for her to do what I would have done. I don't want to give much away, but basically she gets out of it and the way she did it just blew me away. It was not what I expected. This is the book that made me care about Anita Blake as a person. It's my favorite in the series thus far and the one that made me rush out and buy the next three books. My recommendation is that you clear out a block of several hours in your schedule, find a comfy spot to curl up, and dig into this book. You won't want to get up until you've reached the last page.
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Summary: Anita Blake brings humanity to an inhuman world.
Review: Though I might be new to the Anita Blake novels, I was compelled to write a review the day I finished the second novel in the series, The Laughing Corpse, which I began and finished the day after I finished the first novel. Since picking up the books, I've become an overnight fan of Laurell K. Hamilton and her Animator with an attitude, Anita Blake. In a genre that's seen it's share of vampire slayers that make you feel like you're watching something effortless or show too much 'sympathy for the undead', as it were, Anita Blake straddles the fence between bad ass vampire slayer and human woman. Anita captures your attention not only because of her tough-as-nails attitude, but because while she's strong she is not invulnerable or all powerful and has to struggle against the forces that seem to bounce her around and shows amazing fortitude in the face of unspeakable odds. Not only that, but her pragmatic view of the world and dry sense of humor makes you take everything into perspective, giving you a real human look into a world that tempts you to forget about humanity and go off in the world of vampires and zombies and lycanthropes. To call Anita Blake an R rated Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a put down to Anita in so many ways, more like comparing baby tomatoes and full grown oranges. Anita takes a real, open eyed look into a world that has skewed into darkness and never blinks. I highly recommend this, the 2nd book in the series, because it shows off the incredible power that Anita can have, not only power of necromancy but power of spirit and strength of character. The characters Laurell K. Hamilton brings out as a supporting cast catch the eyes and make you want to reach the end and find out what happens at the end, a book to read in one sitting if you can.
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Summary: Fascinating story, Fabulous ending
Review: Words cannot express how fun and entertaining this book was to read. Never boring - imaginative, funny, with a strong, insightful heroine. Realistic, gory monsters abound, limbs flying through the air, Zombies, witches, vampires...I can't recommend this book highly enough and can't wait to read it again.
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Summary: Hamilton is terrific after all--really terrific-my mistake!!
Review: I recently wrote a review of Guilty Pleasures, the first volume in this Anita Blake series. I said it was great while waiting for the next Harry Dresden volume by Jim Butcher, or that of the Angel (tv vampire detective--#3 on--Not Forgotten (#2) by Holder is harder to read and should be saved for when you are out of other books) paperbacks. I thought nothing would be as breath-taking as Fool Moon by Butcher (Harry Dresden is like a grown up Harry Potter in a setting similar to Anita Blake's). But Laughing Corpse was a real roller-coaster ride-- Some series are not to be read late at night alone because they are too frightening. This series is also not to be read then because you'll stay up all night and maybe ruin your work day the next day. I still cannot say anything is greater than Fool Moon but this series is now WAY UP there. And don't miss Naked Came the Sasquatch by John Boston, Virtual Girl by Amy Thomson, Shadows Fall by Simon Green, or the works of Jefferson Swycaffer!
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