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March 27th 2007
(first published 2006)
by Jove
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Paperback, 576 pages
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0515142816
(isbn13: 9780515142815)
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These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be preg...more
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Some one who's be all end all of sex is Fellatio
I hate to say this, but I think I am done with this author.
I remember when she first started the series and there were monsters and plots all over the place.
The last book was 800 pages of sex, most of it repetitive acts of fellatio from the main female characters point of view. with 69 pages of plot. 899 pages of imaging you are going down on someone, only the men change.
This book was 482 pages of fellatio with no plot, and the people being fellated were talking about their goddamn insec...more
I remember when she first started the series and there were monsters and plots all over the place.
The last book was 800 pages of sex, most of it repetitive acts of fellatio from the main female characters point of view. with 69 pages of plot. 899 pages of imaging you are going down on someone, only the men change.
This book was 482 pages of fellatio with no plot, and the people being fellated were talking about their goddamn insec...more
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Read in July, 2006
Not going to give a plot summary. Yes there is a plot but no it is not about raising the dead or slaying vampires. I think if you don't go into the book thinking that then you won't be disappointed. This book is about vampire politics and Anita finding out more about her powers. I think this is a book that was supposed to be much longer and that the publisher split into two since Incubus Dreams was so long and people didn't like it. This book is leading up to the party where all the Masters of t...more
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Read in April, 2007
Okay, if you're in the mood for meeting new characters, great sex and nothing but vampire/lycan politics, this is the book for you. But it ticked me off on another point. There was nothing to Anita's job in this one; no raising the dead, no investigations to do, it was kind of boring. I could understand why it had to be done this way. There was just way to much that 'Anita needed to know' about all the new powers, etc..., and I think it would have been too confusing had it been done in the regul...more
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Read in March, 2008
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I really liked this book. It is more erotic than I remember her other books being. I actually read the first few in this series and quit because they were so violent and bloody. after picking this one up thought I am going back to blue moon and reading forward. Yes they are still violent and bloody, but now I want to know how all the relationships got so complicated and the sex became so good... Is that embarassing or what?!?
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Read in January, 2007
These books have become less about monsters and horror and basically soft porn books. The series was very promising and rapidly went downhill after the 5th or 6th book.
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The problem, for me, wasn't that DANSE MACABRE was 300 pages of sex. The Anita Blake Series has become increasingly more sex- based, due to the ardeur that Anita carries and needs to feed. The sex in the book is nothing great, although there are a few attempts to put the people involved in situations and positions that I find would be hard to accomplish for any mortal human. But since everyone in the book is some type of supernatural being, it didn't seem to be a physical impossibility. So, if y...more
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Read in April, 2008
Book 14 in the Anita Blake, vampire executioner, series by Laurell Hamilton.
This book had a similar vibe to the Merry Gentry series - a little bit of action and danger, and a whole lot of emotional angst and metaphysically enhanced sex. I've got the sense that this book is a connector building up to something very big happening in a later book - that it gives background you'll need to understand the books later on in the series. It certainly seems that LH is not giving her characters peacefu...more
This book had a similar vibe to the Merry Gentry series - a little bit of action and danger, and a whole lot of emotional angst and metaphysically enhanced sex. I've got the sense that this book is a connector building up to something very big happening in a later book - that it gives background you'll need to understand the books later on in the series. It certainly seems that LH is not giving her characters peacefu...more
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anyone who likes Laurell K. Hamilton books
It's all been said before, but it bears repeating. Career suicide. It is a testament to her writing skills that she still had fans after this fiasco. In fact, it's so horrifically uneven when compared with her previous work that the only explanation is that there was something else going on - either she was so far past a deadline she just had to turn it in "as is", she meant this to be 2 or 3 books but couldn't decide how to wrap up or edit the story to make it fit into one..... someth...more
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Read in August, 2007
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52. "After a missed period, Anita takes a home pregnancy test, and it comes up positive. And, as usual with Anita, complications arise at the very worst of times. One of her lovers, the Master Vampire Jean-Claude, is throwing a party for a traveling dance company made up almost entirely of undead bloodsuckers -- and he has invited numerous other Master Vampires to attend. The historic occasion is the largest gathering of Master Vampires in American history and could be a pivotal event in th...more
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Anita Blake is a joke anymore. Her plot lines are non-existent, she's boring, she's whiny, she delivers the same sensory speeches over and over again AND I can't believe Richard is still in the picture whining over the SAME EXACT THINGS! What I especially didn't like about this book was there was no crime to solve. It's the ardeur over and over and over again. Which in my opinion is not even a power. I wish Anita's necromancy was explored more. Now THERE'S a power to be reckoned with. The...more
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Read in June, 2007
Even though I LOVE the Anita Blake Vampire Slayer series, it took me NEARLY TWO months to finally finish this book!! Humph.
This book surprised me. I, regretfully and unfortunately, couldn't even give it a 5. What I'm giving it are two stars. First of all - this book had one too many sex scenes. There were even some chapters that were filled with nothing but sex. I was like, where's the meat?!
Secondly - Anita suspected that she was pregnant. I was soso upset when I read that, for I knew...more
This book surprised me. I, regretfully and unfortunately, couldn't even give it a 5. What I'm giving it are two stars. First of all - this book had one too many sex scenes. There were even some chapters that were filled with nothing but sex. I was like, where's the meat?!
Secondly - Anita suspected that she was pregnant. I was soso upset when I read that, for I knew...more
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Read in August, 2007
I don't know why I still bother to read this series at all. It is going nowhere. It stopped being good about SIX books ago. It was a huge effort to get through this one. There are far too many characters, far too many things to keep up with (like the munin, ardeur, triumvirates, lycanthropy etc), and literally NOTHING happened in this novel to further the overall plot.
Hamilton's writing has gotten to be actually tedious. All she does is write arguments between Anita and her 15 boyfriend...more
Hamilton's writing has gotten to be actually tedious. All she does is write arguments between Anita and her 15 boyfriend...more
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Read in January, 2008
I’m incredibly disappointed…once again (Micah was a joke…didn’t have enough substance to really stand on its own). I’m so disappointed that I’m considering not buying/mooching any more of her books. I’d hate to give up on Anita but the author has given up on Anita and instead of getting a badass, case-solving, independent woman, we now have an ardeur and pomme de sang addict who can barely keep track of how many men she is ummm…doing! She didn’t know who would have been the ...more
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
Anyone who likes the series
I'm a little disappointed in this book. I have loved and collected the Anita Blake series since Guilty Pleasures came out, but back then the books were about police work in a supernatural world, kinda a preternatural CSI. It was unique.
Now, well, ever since Anita started sleeping with Jean Claude and getting some of his lesser qualities and the last two or three books have been nothing more than a soft core porn snog feast. I'm seriously considering dropping the series if this continues ...more
Now, well, ever since Anita started sleeping with Jean Claude and getting some of his lesser qualities and the last two or three books have been nothing more than a soft core porn snog feast. I'm seriously considering dropping the series if this continues ...more
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Read in May, 2007
recommends it for:
fans of the supernatural
The 14th book of the series finds Anita facing the possibility of motherhood and the frightening thought that there are 6 possible fathers (due to the needs of the ardeur). Richard causes problems when he realizes Anita won't stop being the Executioner and a federal marshall and settle down with him if she is pregnant. Micah and Nathaniel are more than happy to change their lives to take care of a baby without expecting Anita to change hers. On top of all this, various Masters of the City fro...more
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Okay, so I'm really an avid reader of the Anita Blake series. But recently, I felt that her series is like losing power, and instead there's a lot of focus on sex. Which... I'm not too interested over, I usually just skim through it. And okay, perhaps, I'm being conservative, but doesn't it seem that Anita has just too many boyfriends?! First, there's Jean-Claude, then we have Richard, comes along Micah, add maybe Damien, or Nat to the taste, dump in some plot, stir well and serve. Her storyline...more
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Read in July, 2006
Still disappointed that Hamilton is more interested in writing erotica instead of her butt-kicking, zombie raising, vampire killing heroine. Reading this new addition to the erotica side just makes me want to go back and read the first half of the series, where her main character wasn't having all the sex but instead was solving mysterious deaths and raising the dead for a living. I ended up returning the book after I finished it, which is unheard of from me, I was that disgusted with it. I sho...more
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Read in January, 2007
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Horror, Fantasy, and Romance Fans
Oh I'm so ashamed once again. four stars I can't believe myslef. I love Laurell, every single one of her books infact but this just wasn't one of my favorite Anita books. I don't mind sex in books and have enjoyed the Anita Series (maybe even more) after it started getting super steamy but this book just didn't have enough other "stuff" besides the sex. I need Anita to be a butt kicker as well as a hot mama pun intended since one of the main plots of the book is about a pregnancy scare...more
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The last decent book in this series was Obsidian Butterfly and I honestly don't know why I keep reading. (Really. I ask myself this periodically. I never have an answer.)
Hamilton seems to be intent on doing away entirely with the poor, defenseless plot. It's there in the beginning but it's dispensed of pretty quickly. The poor, frightened thing isn't found again until page four hundred and sixty something where it was tightly huddled beneath a table. Hamilton is quick to get rid of it....more
Hamilton seems to be intent on doing away entirely with the poor, defenseless plot. It's there in the beginning but it's dispensed of pretty quickly. The poor, frightened thing isn't found again until page four hundred and sixty something where it was tightly huddled beneath a table. Hamilton is quick to get rid of it....more
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