false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168063595m/30245.jpg 30245 17 Laurell K. Hamilton's legions of eager fans will be pleased to see <I>Cerulean Sins</I>), the eleventh novel in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, which is set on an alternate Earth where magic works and vampires and werewolves are real. When a sinister stranger tries to hire the magically potent Anita Blake to raise the dead, she finds herself embroiled in the search for a vicious, supernatural serial killer, and also in the clandestine international politics of the vampires. And as she becomes more deeply enmeshed in cruel plots and counterplots, her tangled personal life only becomes more demanding, more wrenching, and more erotically fraught.<p> With ten previous books in the Anita Blake series, <I>Cerulean Sins</I> is not the place to start. Though author Hamilton artfully reveals the backstory in small doses, the numerous returning characters and the complex history will overwhelm most newcomers (and even the most devoted fans may find that the backfilling slows the pace). Also, the characters frequently stand around talking and psychoanalyzing one another, which makes for static stretches unlikely to hold a new reader's attention. Newcomers should start with the first book, <I>Guilty Pleasures</I>. <I>--Cynthia Ward</I> 2953328 book 2002 Cerulean Sins (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #11) total:5090|5:1512|4:1435|3:1322|2:590|1:231| 5090 18677 6684 117 3 1 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Nov 05 12:59:47 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 13:58:11 -0800 2008 1
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That was, sadly, the high point. I'd hoped that book 10 was a fluke and not a new direction, but this marked the beginning of impossible to find plot hidden in the midst of un...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 18:58:31 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 18:59:00 -0700 2009
Wait, what? We're ten books into this series and Hamilton stops with the bar-name theme in her book titles? Yes, it's true, for the first time, she's named her book after something other than a bar, perhaps because the only one that feature...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 14:23:26 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 20 16:28:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 28 05:50:45 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 02:56:41 -0700 2009 I stared at Jean-Claude, and it wasn't t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 19:08:43 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 23:28:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 06:32:41 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 08:06:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Nov 23 17:47:11 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 17:55:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Dec 22 10:25:29 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 14:01:46 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 10:25:29 -0800 2008
I agree with those who say that this book degenerates the cha...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 30 16:07:37 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 16:07:49 -0800 2008 review: I was surprised at how much I would like this book. The Dead series got me into vampires and now the Anita Blake Vampire series is sucking me in. I know I started in the middle of the series, so now I just want to move onto the next books. I figure I'll get enough back story in the fut...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Sep 26 10:36:01 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 18:06:35 -0800 2009 However, Anita is tougher and ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Oct 01 23:35:20 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 23:35:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Jan 01 21:49:11 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 29 23:18:55 -0700 2009 5+
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You tell 'em, Laurell K. Hamilton, cause ooo, were your fans mad at you after that book (see reader reviews at Amazon.com). Well, it started with Narcissus in Chains, but I guess they were...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 08 10:55:09 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 10:52:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 28 07:57:50 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 15:20:51 -0800 2008
The only problem I had with the series was in book 9 or 10 when Anita Blake received the third mark from Jean Claude(Master of the City of St. Louis), which meant she w...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Aug 07 18:37:44 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 18:45:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Dec 03 11:22:24 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 12:25:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 17 22:30:49 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 13 15:39:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=30245