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    <body><![CDATA[I never really had any intention of reading this series, but a close friend of mine insisted that I buy the first novel when we were roaming the shelves at Barnes and Noble. Yes, the book grabbed my attention, but I'll painfully admit it was because of the subject matter rather than anything truly e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18889521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well. I'd made the mistake of picking up one of Laurell K. Hamilton's later <em>Anita Blake</em> books and reading it first. I had to stop halfway because to be frank, it <em>sucked</em>. It really, really <em>sucked</em>. I couldn't believe people were paying money for that garbage. But many of my friends insisted that the f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/203464">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unlike so many of my peers, I was never a great devotee of vampire-fiction in my adolescence, never read <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula_Critical_Edition_" title="Dracula (Critical Edition) by Bram Stoker">Dracula</a></u> for a high school English class, and have never (to this day) felt the desire to pick up any of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice" title="Anne Rice">Anne Rice</a>'s many novels. It was not until I was in my early twenties, while working in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38638509">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The engaging start of a wonderful series that morphs into erotica partway through. <br/><br/>If you like V.I Warshawski, Kinsey Milhone,and other female gumshoes, and you like some fantasy, you will definitely like this series in the beginning. Normal world, normal woman, except that vampires (and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18189861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finally got around to reading <em>Guilty Pleasures</em>, the first Anita Blake book, and can at least see why they're not in the Romance section: it's gory and the author doesn't seem to like vampires at all.<br/><br/>I know Hamilton's very well established and has a huge fan base, and I know there are l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14996266">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Guilty Pleasures is the first of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series. It’s filled with cool concepts (vampires as citizens, vampire strip clubs, freak parties, the inner-working of a zombie) and catchy descriptions (“silk” and “velvet” adjectives make me happy). But I doubt I’ll contin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1127890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All of Ms. Hamilton's books have erotic undertones, but this is toward the beginning of the series, before those undertones turned into overtones, sidewaystones, diagonaltones, and all those other tones that we can't discuss in polite society. At this point and through book six or seven, you can sti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11179780">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I read &quot;naw&quot; one more time, I'm gonna have to slap a bitch. That has to be, to me, the least intelligent-sounding word to come out of anyone's mouth--doubly so if you're answering your own rhetorical questions, Anita, as though the reader is too stupid to realize that no, the vampire pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28132481">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was engaging in the way one watches a crash in slow motion on the news. You can't look away. Anita Blake is not a nice woman, she's a scared woman. Her dialogue is frequently mean-spirited and more blunt than is probably wise. Then what do you expect of a woman who works with the dead? A l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2571247">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't read much &quot;dark fantasy&quot; or whatever this stuff is (except Neil Gaiman's books), so I guess I was a little unfair in having such high expectations.  I do like the idea of vampires, and I remember liking Anne Rice's books when I was in high school, so I took a patron's recommendatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25070946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22910424">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 25 02:21:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series is SO AMAZING!!!  It is about a zombie raising/vampire hunter!  She is so awesome!  She is very tough and reminds me of Buffy the Vampire Slayer only WAY more kick butt and knowledgeable about Vamps!  DO NOT read this series if you don't like sex in your books.  At first there is no sex,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22910424">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8712389">
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    <body><![CDATA[Certainly not a literary masterpiece, but very entertaining and engaging nonetheless.  After Anne Rice stopped writing The Witching Hour and Interview with a Vampire series, I quickly went into vampire-book withdrawal.  Although I can't say Laurell Hamilton's vampire fiction rises to Anne Rice quali...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8712389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The world is ours today, except vampires, werewolves &amp; such all exist &amp; are legally recognized.  Anita Blake is a tough gal who has a talent for raising zombies.  She gets sucked in to paranormal politics &amp; murder mysteries.  Great fun to read.  I love her character.<br/><br/>This started me &amp; my ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30891868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm intrigued, for sure.  I feel like I missed some steps getting into this one, but I did read it on the plane, so maybe that has something to do with it!  I'm definitely looking forward to reading the next one in the series...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not a fan of vampire novels and so when a friend recommended this series to me, it was awhile before I ordered the first book in the Anita Blake series. All I can say now is...WOW! I AM A FAN FOR LIFE!!! *laugh I just ordered books 2 - 4 in the series and will order the rest once those arrive. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25569848">more...</a>]]></body>
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