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Summary: Best book series ever!
Review: I first heard of this series through the internet. I read the reviews and I decided to buy it. Needless to say after reading this I had to buy the whole series. It took over three months to get all of the books that were available and I read the whole series in a week. This is an amazing first book to a fresh new series and I love the ending!
(Note to future buyers, if you buy the first book get the second and third. This series if very addictive! Pace youselves and don't let the gramatical errors bais your opinion. It was only after the millionth time that I read this that I noticed.:D)
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: Anita, short and tough, is not to be messed with (by anyTHING). If you are into vampires, werewolves, violence, heavy sexual tension, this is definitely the book for you. These things were not alway my forte, but Hamilton pulls it all together farely well. Anita is put into a lot of wild situations, even for a necromancer (raiser of the dead). I do have two complaints, though (which were not so horrible to cause me to reduce the amount of stars). First, all the men are beyond gorgeous--not very realistic, with long hair and unbelievable bodies. Second, apparently, every last one of them want to jump Anita's bones. I completed this book in one night. It is an easy read and a great book to escape from the mundane world.
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Summary: Frightfully fun!
Review: I avoided the "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter" novels for a long time for the same reason I didn't watch "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" until the third season - it sounded too cheesy to be any good. Of course, "Buffy" became one of my favorite shows, and "Anita Blake" is really starting to grow on me, too, and for the same reason - the strength of the characters, particularly the secondary ones, which outweighs the corniness of some of the plots. Naturally, anyone is going to make comparisons between Anita and Buffy - look, see, I just did - but in truth, they're not all that similar. Both feature short, but very tough, women who hunt vampires, yet carry on a tortured love affair with one. Beyond that, though, there's not much in common. In Anita's world, vampirism is legal. She's the Vampire Executioner for the St. Louis area - called in by the police to handle vampires who break the law. Beyond that, she's an animator - a zombie-raiser (another paranormal business conducted out in the open), and a police consult for supernatural crimes. Naturally, all these job descriptions invariably collide in each novel. Sometimes the dialogue (or monologue, since they're told first-person) gets a little stilted. Hamilton pushes Anita's "I'm small, but I'm tough" routine a bit too far sometimes, and the endless repetition of exactly which guns and/or knives she's wearing and how she's carrying them gets a little tedious. And a few books in, when you realize the pattern of 3 different subplots all being related somehow, (ie, monsters hire Anita to find menace threatening them, strange client hires Anita to raise the dead, Anita's love interest has a deep dark secret), it loses some of its punch. Nevertheless, I *like* Anita, and I like a lot of the secondary characters, too - even if most of them are on the side of the monsters. The stories are both fun and gruesome - a nice balance, somewhere between fluff beach reading and gnawing-on-your-fingernails.
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Summary: Begin your addiction!
Review: Okay, I have to say it: Laurell is a Goddess! The Anita Blake series is the only other addiction I have besides chocolate. I love this book & I have hooked my best friend on the series as well. Definetly give this book a try, you won't be disappointed!
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Summary: Good start for the Anita Blake Series
Review: This is a good book, that keeps you interested throughout. Nevertheless, Anne Rice is still queen in this genre. What I don't enjoy that much about the Anita Blake story (and I know that other people will disagree) is that besides vampire it has a whole myriad of other non human creatures (zombies, ghouls, animators, wererats, etc.). If you haven't read neither Rice nor Hamilton I would start with Rice first, but if you have already read Rice's books then Hamilton might be a good second choice.
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Summary: Fun with reading!
Review: Guilty Pleasures continues Laurell's wonderful world of vampires and other "creatures" from a very human view point. She writes well and gives a full spectrum of feelings and addresses her all too human confusion. Great book with many levels of thought. How different are we all after all? Not only great fun but thought provoking as well. Full of action and the supernatural! Enjoy. But be sure to read the books in order. They are confusing and not as much fun read out of sequence. Absolutely confirmed my interest in more Laurell K.. Passed the first books on to friends and now have a group of people hooked. One of the best addictions I've found!
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Summary: Love her world
Review: One of the best of the Anita Blake series. Each book is stand alone - a wonderful gift in itself! Anita is one tough chick and she's got all sorts of issues with the otherworld creatures around her: vampires, werewolves, the odd ghoul, just to name a few. She is a licensed vampire killer, but only sanctioned hits. Because vampires are people too and have rights! Ms. Hamilton has a wonderful talent of creating a world where you buys into the rules. This is a quick read because the action never lets up! Note for the Guys: this is NOT a chick book. If you love action set in this world, but with a few extra types of beings involved. Read it - very cool!
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: Six days ago, I purchased a copy of this book - today, I just completed the last book in the series and I can't wait for the next!
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Summary: Vampire slayer
Review: Anita Blake is our heroine in this first book in a series by Laurell K. Hamilton. Anita lives in a society where vampires interact with humans, and they have equal rights. Anita is an animator, she can raise the dead. She does not believe that vampires should have equal rights, she believes that they are a menace to society, and she hunts them. In "Guilty Pleasures" she is hired, against her will, to find out who is murdering some of the city's prominent vampires, and this challenge takes her places she has never been before, and she is going to see things she never dreamed of. It is a very easy read, and very entertaining. The set up of the book; vampires/humans with equal rights, is very clever, and I am looking forward to read the other books in this series.
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Summary: Fantastic escapist trash
Review: This book is from the literary equivalent of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer genre. Think humourous and light-hearted and you won't go far wrong. I expect this will appeal to lots of teens and twenty-somethings and anyone else who doesn't want to be bogged down by any book that takes itself too seriously. This series is a perfect read for those times when you don't have the stamina required for a Booker prize nominee.
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