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Jan 11, 2012

Tilly rated it:

Micah is a very interesting character. As I’ve already mentioned he is one of my favorite sweeties. Micah and Nathaniel completely rock my world!

Micah was one of my refuges. His arms, his body, his smile. His quiet acceptance of me, violence and all. Now I was back to being scared. Shit.

With that said, this book must have been rushed. Either it was rushed or it took awhile to write because it was…boring. I really dislike writing negative reviews, but this is one of More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Andres rated it:

I gave up on [buying] Laurell Hamilton some time back, as her books have devolved into cheap sex scenes apparently caused by the author's relationship going into a meltdown. The first 6 books in this series are great. From then on they seem to turn more and more into porn, starting soft and steadily progressing into hardcore, whereas they used to be a really great exploration of what a world where the paranormal mixes with the normal would be like.

So, basically, I stopped buying them More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Kim rated it:

What a piece of crap. I picked it up at the airport, and I should have left it on the plane.

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Aug 24, 2008

Jennifer rated it:

I hate Micah and I hate novellas disguised as novels. This was a waste of time and about the point I started hating Anita. Mind you I still buy her books, but I think part of me just wishes she would get shot a spend about three books in a coma.

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Sep 13, 2007

Michelle rated it:

This is really the end of the series for me. This book is just an sexathon between two of the characters. I could have saved my money and suggest you save yours.

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Nov 25, 2008

Merredith rated it:

Micah by Laurell K hamilon, was a fake book. Here we have the 245 page new installment in the Antia Blake series, but it's just a filler… Remember when you were in school, and your teacher assigned you a certain number of page paper to do? But you really didn't have too much to write… So you space it out as far as you can…. That's what Hamilton did for this book. Her books are usually tiny print, words packed into the pages, and STILL long. This has the largest ever typeface, sooo spaced out, bo More...

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Nov 22, 2007

Kathy rated it:

From a blog post I wrote in 2006:

This addition to Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series was disappointing.

I felt like it was mostly a throwaway story. The plot revolved around Anita and her King of the Wereleopards partner, Micah, going to Philadelphia to raise a zombie for a trial. (That sentence really only makes sense to someone who's read some of these books, I realize.) It's their first time being alone and Anita freaks out about the intimacy (which she does in eve More...

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Jan 08, 2009

Teddy rated it:

I promised myself I wouldn't read past Obsidian Butterfly, but then I was given this for free and I have to see if it's as awful as I think it's going to be... signs are pointing to yes.

Page 136 edit: The sex, OMG the sex... I don't think I'll ever stop laughing...

Jesusfuck, why do I do this to myself?

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Mar 24, 2009

Lori rated it:

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful: (on amazon.com)
horrible!, June 8, 2007

I, admitedly, am a huge fan of Hamilton. Although i think (know) she's a huge guilty pleasure (no pun intended), and always feel a bit embarassed when caught reading one of her books...But, i've never been truly embarassed to be a fan.

Until now.

This book is absolutely horrible. Not a plot in sight. Basically, page after page of Micah (so incr More...

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Dec 07, 2011

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Nov 10, 2011

***Dave rated it:

(Original review Jan 2007)

Overall 4/5
Story 4/5
Re-Readability 4/5
Characters 3/5

With "Micah" I have now finished all the Anita Blake novels that are in paperback ("Danse Macabre" is still hardcover only). And …

… well, I’m probably exaggerating a bit with the ratings, but in contrast to "Incubus Dreams," this is … a masterpiece.

The book is 288 pages, the last 30-odd being a preview of Danse Macabre. And rather t More...

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Nov 04, 2011

chucklesthescot rated it:

Anita is off to Philadelphia to raise a zombie for a court case but with the ardeur being an issue, Micah insists on going with her for the trip. So for the first time, Anita is alone with Micah and that causes problems for her.

I swear I was ready to slap Anita into next week with her childish, moronic behaviour in this 'book'. Micah tries to comfort her over her fear of flying and she takes it as an insult as if he is suggesting that she is weak because she is a girl. She then gets ma More...

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Aug 12, 2011

Ana rated it:

I had a long review written, but Goodreads choked while publishing, so it no longer exists. Trying again...

Very short! I got to the end and was surprised it was over. Very focused on the Micah/Anita relationship to the point of making a lot of the other stuff a monologue/dialogue rather than full plot points. I do not like how pretty much everyone except Jean-Claude cannot deal with life without getting rage-y. What the heck, Micah, why the pissyness? Nice to hear more about his life More...

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Jul 28, 2011

John added it

2* for Micah, 3.5* for Strange Candy. Read this as Micah & Strange Candy omnibus. Other reviewers mentioned Micah being a short novel bulked up to 245 pages with large type etc., well the edition I read was 116 pages long. Filler story about the most poinless story in the series, really should have been part of another novel but at least there was only time for 1 sex scene. Give Micah a miss unless you love the series. Strange Candy is a collection of Hamiltons short stories included to bring More...

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Jul 02, 2011

Leticia rated it:

Okay. Here goes.

Empty calories are all fun, but after awhile, you get malnourished, starve, and die.

I really enjoyed the introduction of Micah's character to the series. He was refreshing after reading Richard and Claude. So I had high hopes when I opened this book. I was hoping to get a better sense of Micah and to see perhaps his relationship with Anita deepen. But none of it happened. Yes, we got a little bit of a preview into Micah's background. But not much else hap More...

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Jun 18, 2011

gigi rated it:

Absolutely Loved this little novella didn't take me long and it was so typical of Anita. I loved it. A definite MUST read. Here is what Amazon.co.uk says about Micah:

From Publishers Weekly
Hamilton (Incubus Dreams) delivers a highly palatable portion of what makes her series heroine, federal marshal and vampire-hunter Anita Blake, a bestseller: equal portions hot sex and supernatural crime fighting—with a dollop of old-fashioned male-female melodrama—served up in a world where new More...

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Oct 19, 2010

Mary Grace rated it:

I was never really interested in Micah character nor thought that the addition of said character was necessary. Of all of Anita's men, Micah is how should I say this - flat? Not likable? Unnecessary?

Whatever that word might be, the meaning is still the same. Why did Hamilton wrote this book? I don't know really but it didn't do any justice to the series. It's just sad how the avid readers of the series seems to be slipping away because of how the story progress from being awesome to More...

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Jun 25, 2010

Chinablue_25 rated it:

I think that this was originally meant to be a short story and ran too long for it so she turned it to a short book if you will. The book before this one was ridiculous with all the emergency sex. Don't get me wrong I enjoy a good sex scene a lot but in the previous book, Incubus Dreams, it was OUT OF CONTROL!! I think in ONE night, Anita had sex like FIVE TIMES!!!! All but one of those 5 scenes had another character either taking part in some way, or watching while laying in bed with Anita More...

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Apr 22, 2010

Fence rated it:

I’m not really sure why I picked this book up, after the last few turned into nothing but porn I thought I’d give them a miss. But it was only â‚¬7, and I’ve read the others so I thought I may as well be a completioniest. But this doesn’t really seem to be the same as the others in the series. Its shorter, and there really isn’t any plot. I mean there is a storyline about raising some fella who died of a heart attack before he could testify to the FBI, but that isn’t what the book is about. It i More...

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Apr 14, 2010

Angela rated it:

I once heard/read Stephen King talking about his writing. And he said that after he wrote a novel, sometimes he still had something to say (like magic to put out the words) -- occassionaly it was a lot, and we get novellas from that, like The Mist or The Body...more often it is a little, and we get the short stories, like The Boogeyman -- in any case, eventually, he decides to publish these "extras" and we get the collections - Four Past Midnight or Night Shift.

The reason I More...

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Apr 10, 2009

Barky rated it:

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Feb 28, 2010

Leslie rated it:

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Sep 29, 2009

Warnie B. rated it:

This is definitely the worst book in the series so far. First of all, what would normally be five chapters or so in any other book has been stretched out (with large margins, extra spacing between words and lines, and a full page for each chapter number) into twelve. Which means that Hamilton's annoying habit of chapter-long disgustingly graphic sex scenes turned into Hamilton's annoying habit of THREE-chapter-long disgustingly graphic sex scenes--only this time with the stupidest, most eye-roll More...

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Oct 23, 2011

Andrea rated it:

If I had to pinpoint the exact moment my heart broke while reading this book, it would have to be when Micah earnestly explains to Anita how he'd been unsuccessful in prior relationships due to the enormous size of his wang. Some women, Anita recognizes astutely, are just not built for such endowments. Luckily, Anita is there for him, to love him in all the ways his previous girlfriend couldn't, and to help him begin the healing process.

To be fair, I read this book after I had alrea More...

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Jun 06, 2011

Adriane rated it:

This book is like a palate cleansing amuse bouche, a way to reset from the others. The other books have been rife with drama and tension and worry. In fact the last book was absolutely bogged down with the amount of crap she wanted to fit into one story and just ran out of room for the mystery part. In comparison this one was a breath of fresh air. Simple zombie raising gone wonky, with some naughty Micah time on the side.

My only complaint is that it was so short, literally took me More...

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May 20, 2011

Beth rated it:

<spoiler>I actually enjoyed this book. I really liked the fact that Anita wasn't really sleeping around for once. Unlike a lot of reviews I have read of the Anita books, I don't mind the ardeur storyline as much as some people apparently do. If you don't like the books, don't bother reading them; perhaps I am of a minority thinking that way, but it seems pretty simple to me. I feel that while Anita does really get around in this series she does so in a plot-driven way and she does often sh More...

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Oct 29, 2010

Chibineko rated it:

(sigh) Laurell, what's happened to you? Is putting out a book a year draining you too much? There's no excuse for this.

Micah is a novella dressed up to look like a full novel. The plotline is barely there, the characterizations are shallow, and everything just seems wooden & unlikable. The book is actually just as cheaply done as anything else, as the spacing is overdone in order to stretch out a 100-ish page novel out into 300-ish pages. If this had been published as a short story More...

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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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Apr 21, 2010

Shelley rated it:

Hmmmmmm...kind of a strange quick read. Did it rate it's own book at full price? Absolutely not. Was it a good story? Yeah it was okay. Since it had only one sex scene, it was a more interesting read as I had grown tired of the never-ending bedroom parade. It took me less than one work day to read this and that was with a lot of interruptions. It was only 147 pages on my PC book reader so it was short. I enjoyed the story although Micah's whole story took no time (like only a couple of p More...

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Nov 04, 2008

Jen rated it:

This was the book that convinced me to not read the Anita Blake series any further. It started going downhill after Obsidian Butterfly, but this got patently ridiculous. At least the Merry Gentry series has always been all about the smut with bits of plot instead of pretending to be a detective series.

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