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Jan 15, 2012

Tilly rated it:

Anita Blake; Vampire Hunter and animator. A love triangle doesn’t even begin to explain the most interesting relationships that currently complicate her life.

Cursed with the ardeur, Blake suffers through an existence as a succubus. Sex to survive, more sex and even more sex. Although, the sex has made the stories interesting, enough is enough. I mean, c’mon .. stop throwing her naked under random characters and slow things down a bit. Anita has her sweeties, stop tossing sponta More...

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Sep 09, 2010

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Mar 26, 2010

BarkLessWagMore rated it:

I read this back when it was first released but am rereading it here as an audiobook. It's one of the later Anita Blake books which are all a blur of sex and power in my mind so I can't remember much about it.

Well, just as I remembered with the other later books in this series this is all about Anita's sex with her many men and much less about the paranormal aspects of the book which I found so interesting in the earlier novels. This time around Anita fears she may be pregnant and More...

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Mar 10, 2008

Kathryn rated it:

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 g More...

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Dec 21, 2007

Samantha rated it:

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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Apr 08, 2008

Gina rated it:

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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May 02, 2007

Dani rated it:

Really enjoy Laurel K. Hamilton and the Anita Blake series. That being said, I really enjoyed the first few books in the series because they were all about kick ass chick and a sorta interesting kinda mystery/thriller conundrum with some hot steamy scenes in the middle. This past book and the few before it seem to be all hot and steamy and very little advancement of the story.
I still like Hamilton, but I enjoyed her older stuff much more.

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Mar 17, 2008

Sonja rated it:

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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Nov 23, 2011

Stephanie rated it:

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Wow, if Anita Blake find massive difficulties and moral quandaries with her relationships with men, wait until she has a baby, IF she is pregnant. Okay, so the big questions for the first part of the book is if she is pregnant does she have one of the syndromes associated with shapeshifters or vampires or is the baby even vaguely normal? What would she even do with a baby? She has never seen herself with kids so More...

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Aug 24, 2011

Ana rated it:

Still has the painful "oh yeah, all this stuff happened in the short, short time between books" pitfall, and again when do they all sleep?!?! I suppose this was really only, what, two or three days, so I suppose a lot could happen otherwise - but if she's feeding the ardeur that often, how does anything else get done, how does she go to work, the time for everything that they do just doesn't add up! I loved the very mundane, humanizing problem; she'd been getting a bit far from "r More...

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Mar 31, 2011

Myria rated it:

Whooooooooaaaaaaa. I'm not gonna lie, this book is too much for me! ONE DAY I will finish this book but I just cannot get past this 20 pages (feels like 50 pages)of one sex scene. It's been months since I put it down to get a break and when I picked it back up, I read mmmm.... 2 pages and put it right back down. Now I remember why it's so hard for me to finish it. I know, I know, I know. The sex scenes are crucial for Anita but this is just way too much sex. Does there really have to be that man More...

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Dec 30, 2010

Karissa rated it:

I have to start out with saying what many other reviewers have said. I love the Anita Blake novels. I have devoted a great part of my life into reading and re-reading the series. That being said the latest books have been a disappointment. The sex involved in them doesn't really bother me; it's more the lack of story. Unfortunately I am a bit behind on the series because I have been waiting to buy the latest Anita Blake books until I can get them in paperback...used. That's how valuable these la More...

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Nov 05, 2010

Patrick rated it:

I will say that I have enjoyed the Anita Blake books a great deal. Do I like how they have developed more recently? Not exactly. That is to say, I guess I am a bit bothered by how willingly Anita has done a 180 degree turn from where she was at the beginning of things. This is not to say that I do not enjoy the changes or feel that they are unfeasible. I guess it is that I liked the tough as nails take no prisoners attitude she had earlier on. It is still there, but it has softened tremendously More...

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Oct 29, 2010

Chibineko rated it:

I really tried to read this book, honestly I did. It started off well enough and was better than it's predecessor (not saying much). The idea of a meeting of several different Masters of the City was interesting since it would lead to different types of vamps & magic. Unfortunately all it lead to was providing Anita with different flavors of vamp & were to bang. It honestly was incredibly boring after a while, especially the sex scenes.

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Oct 19, 2010

Mary Grace rated it:

The strength of the Ardeur rises but Anita has come terms with her power in addition to her other supernatural abilities. Not only has she been The Executioner, investigator, Jean-Claudes human servant, a member of two triumvirate, and other obligations that wears her down everyday. Now she is faced with the possibility of having a child and what's worse, with Anita's multiple partner, the gang doesn't know who's is it. Which makes it more complicated.

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Sep 08, 2010

Michelle rated it:

I have gone from reading "The Killing Dance" to this one in the series. Yeah a massive jump I know and it blew my mind. In "The Killing Dance" I was so glad that Anita had finally chosen the gorgeous Jean Claude as her lover... even though he is a corpse at least he is still a human corpse, but Richard goes really animal! In Danze Macabre, I was stunned to learn about the 'ardeur' and the need for it to be fed. I didn't mind all the sex and vampire politics, but Ms. Hamil More...

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Jul 16, 2010

Raiveran rated it:

No amount of ridiculously reasoned hardcore porn is worth this. —

If you want to read someone’s repetitive, repetitive, repetitive Mary Sue fantasy about legions of perfect, beautiful, smart, powerful, perfect men either fighting over or adoring, but all fucking, one insecure, shallow, selfish dumbass character, this book is for you. If you don’t demand a storyline to prop up the epic and imminently selfishly immature and needy fantasies of not one but ten Twilight twihards dis More...

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Jun 12, 2010

Cloudwalker rated it:

"What was wrong with me? I was hysterical, that was what was wrong with me. The moment I thought it that clearly, I started to calm. I didn't feel any better, really, but I could think. That was an improvement. I thought about being free of the ardeur, and that was a good thought. I thought about being free of Jean-Claude's marks, and all the metaphysical mess that came with it. My life being my own again, that sounded good. I thought about being just me, as Jean-Claude said, just me in my

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Apr 10, 2010

Deserie rated it:

Ooooooookay. So I am honestly speechless at this point. Not so much that I think the series is taking a header, but more along the lines that I'm starting to feel uncomfortable. All the sex Anita is having is not a problem, its the amount of men she is involving that makes it difficult to keep track of her relationships. There were several plots to this book and several matters were explained and brought up which was nice so it wasn't so much about how many men Anita can get into bed. I hat More...

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Mar 24, 2010

Angela rated it:

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Aug 20, 2011

ηicolε rated it:

I really wanted to be able to finish this book. I honestly did. But I just can’t anymore. I’ve already gone through thirteen books in this series, and I’d really hate to leave a series barely hanging on the edge, but I just have to put it down. Don’t get me wrong, some of the characters in this saga I’ve really grown attached to (Richard probably being the best character in the world of ‘Anita Blake’) but there are too many reasons why I feel the need to stop this series for my own sake.

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Feb 25, 2010

Terry rated it:

This book is a good explanation as to why this book series hasn't been picked up for television or the big screen. Could you imagine sitting through 1 to 2 hours of a movie or show & watching a room packed full of characters dramatically staring at each other, clutching each other, spontaneous fainting, collapsing, gasping and shuddering in a very mellow dramatic way with very little duologue.... All with nothing actually going on? Yeah, neither can I. And when there is dialog, the characte More...

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Mar 12, 2010

Brandi rated it:

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May 03, 2010

Shelley rated it:

Started this book with high hopes. Story seemed to be pretty good. Going along it was still okay. Then we have 2/3 of the book taken up with sex with one man after another. Three or four at once and a few new ones. Finally we end up at the ballet and things are progressing well and....stop for group sex again. Then we go back to the Circus for a meeting with the big bad visitors and wait....have to have sex with Asher and then we are in the hospital and it ends. So....did the visitors lea More...

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Jun 21, 2011

Amy rated it:

There was an awful lot going on in this one but I think it was important to the continuing story. Overall I really loved it. Will Anita ever fully embrace her vampirism? Will she ever fully accept JC and the 4th mark? I still feel like we aren't any closer to finding out. Perhaps she will never allow it. I kinda wish she would just get over it already and do it. I can't even begin to imagine the power possibilities.

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Feb 26, 2011

Helmisade rated it:

"Does this woman not have an editor?" She made it into a question.

I realize that this is part 14 of a series so it's probably not the best place to start. I also know that most people seem to think that the first 10 Anita Blake books were much better. Perhaps I'll try one of those some time. For now, here's the Big List of things that made this book so bad I wanted to hurt myself:

- X made it into a question: easily the most over-used expression in the book. If there More...

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Nov 17, 2010

Ellie rated it:

Well it wasn't as bad as I was expecting! Anita manages to hold off having sex til after page 100 and actually manages to stop before the next chapter begins. However I fear for Anita's day job as it has been a whilst since she raised the dead or did any police work. I'm also starting to dislike Anita somewhat, and not because of the sex but her attitude seems off a lot of the time. She spends half the time being angry or judgemental when she's really not in a position to be throwing stones.
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Jun 28, 2011

Claudine rated it:

This is a review overall of the entire series. Anita Blake is The Executioner, lupa to the local pack Alpha, human servant to a vampire, a necromancer, a living vampire, leopard queen, tiger queen and mostly human. While the first few books had decent story lines, from about halfway they disintegrated into a mass orgy of odder and odder sex. The vampire hunting and corpse raising gave way to pretty average sex. Now, each book has a beginning (sort of), massive amounts of having sex with mult More...

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Dec 18, 2011

Emma rated it:

I skipped Micah as so many readers said it wasn't worth reading and I didn't feel lost in this story without it. I keep finishing an anita blake book and swearing its the last one I'll read only to pick up another months later... I'm a sucker for punishment it seems.

The things that made this series so good to begin with are lost. I find my self stopping reading and actually claiming out loud that 'this can't be serious!' Anitas powers are just ridiculous now, she has seemed to become t More...

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Apr 22, 2010

Fence rated it:

It all went downhill so quickly in this series. The first few books were good solid entertainment. Plenty of action and fairly decent characters. But now they are all merely vehicles for Anita to have sex with as many people as she can. And to top it all they are badly written as well. Thank god I got this one from the library and didn’t shell out actual cash for it.

This may be the worst of this verse that I’ve read so far. I’m trying to think what the plot might be, only there More...

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