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Summary: Not my style
Review: I hate it when an author insists on telling me what I should think of the characters and events in the book, and describes everything in a way that leaves no room for my imagination. If you are like me, DON'T read this book. The style is boring and lacks any kind of subtlety.Apart from the style, I also found the narrator and heroine rather unlikeable. Her moral dilemmas might be interesting if she wasn't such a judgemental bigot. On the whole, I wouldn't recommend this book.
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Summary: Dropped the ball
Review: I have read all of the other books in this series and I think this is the one that no one spent anytime looking for errors since they can be found all through the book. I have enjoyed the series and look forward to reading it over again but I think I will skip this book in the future. Read it once, checked out from your local library of course, to keep the flow going but don't go back a second time it just isn't worth it.
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Summary: Another winner....
Review: "Obsidian Butterfly" was a great book in this series..but then..arent they all? This book focused on Edward. It was nice to FINALLY get to know him a bit better. There was a TON of action in this book that kept me glued to the story..my one complaint that took off a star is that as much as I needed a breather..I missed Jean Claude !!!! I also missed the wolves..especially Jason ..and of course the wereleopards..other than that.a definite must read.
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Summary: Best written
Review: Laurell K Hamilton has shown the caliber of her writing talent. Everything that was bad in this book made me want to jump into the pages and kick some butt myself. Obsidian Butterfly wasn't my favorite book in the series; in fact it rates in the lower regions therewith, but it has to be one of the best written books I've ever read. Thus it gets five stars. Jean Claude continues to pursue Anita, even though she has run across the country from him. And by this time, I was thoroughly sick of Richard and his stupidity. I was sincerely hoping that Hamilton would just get rid of him and let Jean Claude have Anita; but such was not the case in this book. So keep reading if you're waiting for that to happen.
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Summary: I'm hooked!!!
Review: This is my first reading of Hamilton, AB, Vampire Hunter series or otherwise. I have to say I LOVED IT! I have done nothing but search for the first book since beginning OB, so that I can start the series from the beginning. I do agree w/ various other readers that the editing is a bit "off", but I still could not put the book down. I can only hope the entire series is this enthralling. I compare it to an R-rated version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, complete with gory details, obscene language and sexual content. I LOVED IT!!!
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Summary: Laughing Corpse revisted
Review: I say that half-heartedly though. The laughing corpse was just the beginning. It was necessary to learn more about Anita's necromancy and only later did LKH saturate her books with her delicious characterizations. However, most of what made me lock myself in my room for hours to read her books was gone from this. The otherwordly elements (vampires, shapeshifters), her strong, coursing relationships with the leopards, wolves, and ahhh Jean-Claude--all gone. And though I love Edward, I feel his prescense was more haughty and strangely complete, when he made cameos. When he was just that guy who was mysterious, deadly, in it just for the kill and an inticing plage upon the books and to the readers. However, in this novel, there was too much. He lost some of his edge (mainly because Donna was...well, not too bad anyway). Though I thought Bernado was great, I was bored. Painfully bored. Perhaps if I had read this book standing by itself with no previous novels, I would have enjoyed it--the suspense and the gruesome descriptions--perhaps, I would have been more intrigued. But with the stunning characterizations and the obsessive ties I found with them, I was just not as impressed as with every other book. The next one was much, much better!
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Summary: Surprising
Review: From all the things I've heard about this book, I didn't think I was going to like it. For one, it doesn't have all our regular characters like Jean Claude (except for a small cameo), Richard (not that I really care he wasn't in this book), Asher, Anitas wereleopards and wolves, etc. But all in all, it's a very good addition to the series.
I'll admit that the beginning is a little...slow. It takes a while to get into the action. I'm not going to give away any of the plot, because I really hate it when i'm just looking for an opinion and they give me the whole freakin plot! So, i'll just tell some highlights.
As always, Edward is a fantastic character. In this book, you really get to see a different side of him. I liked it a lot. Of course, Edward is one of my favorite characters, so he can do no wrong. But I thought he was as good as ever. He shows a little more "emotion." It's refreshing. The plot itself was very good as well. Some ancient monster stealing the skins off of people. Creepy. Anita's character continues to grow into something greater. As always, there is character development. In this book, Anita realizes things that might have been better if she'd realized them a while back. She's maturing, but at the same time, backing off from what she is. So, I really liked this book. I reccommend it, actually. It's one of my favorites. So go out and buy it. Or stay at home and buy it. Whatever tickles your fancy...
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Summary: Bored
Review: This is my first go around with an Anita Blake novel, and I'm sorry to say I was disappointed. I thought the novel's sense of place was very poorly done, and wonder how much field research was actually done on location before the book was written. Anita Blake alludes to the Sange del Cristo mountains, when the common term for them is Sangre _de_ Cristo. A fine point, admittedly, but that's what they're called. In spite of the juicily gory hospital scene, the pace of the novel's early stages was almost glacial. And finding that I cared not a whit about any of the characters, not even Anita, I put this one down. But I did give the first novel in the series a quick look, and it did catch my interest, so maybe the ennui that seemed to permeate "Butterfly" is more due to Anita Fatigue than anything else. It would seem to me to be a difficult thing, to write about the same character(s) book after book.
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Summary: EDWARD!
Review: I very much disliked Edwards secrecy so this book, opening up to Edward made me extermly happy! It caught me off guard that Edward had fallen in love but it is a good thing. I was sad that he wasn't mentioned much in the other books but you can only hope.
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Summary: Obsidian Butterfly
Review: There are few books in my life that I read more than once. Typically the readings are years apart. I read this book uncounted times over a span of 3 days. I literally could NOT put it down. This is the first Anita Blake book to really part from Ms. Hamilton's usual writing style, but it's worth it. Back in "The Killing Dance", Anita ended up owing Edward a favor (Want to know why? Go read the book!). In "Obsidian Butterfly", Edward is calling in his favor. He needs backup. Apparently there are a rash of murders so gruesome that even he doesn't know what caused them. So off Anita goes to help solve the case, question a Master of the City, have issues with the local police, run up against a local werewolf pack, and even get into trouble with HUMAN bad guys! In truth, this book is more about Edward than Anita, so I can see why some who don't like him might not enjoy the book as much. Don't get me wrong, Anita still has her (very large) part, but you learn more about Edward then you'd ever dream. You also get to see how Anita's hard and bloody lifestyle is beginning to catch up with her. All in all, I'd definitely recommend this book to any Anita Blake fan.
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