Narcissus in Chains (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #10)
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Narcissus in Chains (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #10)

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In her tenth adventure, nothing can save vampire hunter Anita Blake from a twist of fate that draws her ever closer to the brink of humanity.
Mass Market Paperback, 644 pages
Published September 24th 2002 by Jove
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CJ
The beginning of the end. I was fascinated with the whole human servant thing. I was fascinated with the werewolf added into the fray thing - talk about a messy love life! I thought that her powers increasing was fine - they had to if she was hanging around the kinds of monsters that were in her coterie. The twist with her being able to have a vampire servant bound to her was a nice one....after all, her power is to control the dead, and what are vampires but dead?

But it was never en...more
Tilly Slaton
This book is the beginning, the core foundation of everything to come.

All of the books prior to this one were filled with death, gruesome and violent homicide scenes, bestial pornographic rape scenes to unquestionable love. Totally weird stuff, but worth every minute of couch time!

This book takes the entire series, and swings it into a completely different direction. This book really rocks the boat, and takes you by surprise. The once innocent and strictly moral and you ...more
Stacy
Stacy rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: Horror, Fantasy, and Romance
This is probably my favorite book in the series. I loved loved loved this one. I know many people think that after Obsidien Butterfly things went down hill and there was nothing but sex sex sex all the time, but if you look at the emotions involved and Anita's blossoming power in this book it is more than any book yet, plus there is nothing wrong with liking a little bit of sex (or alot) with your reading. So Since I do like those things I name this book my absolute favorite and I'm sure there a...more
Damecatoe
TOTALLY SPOILERY, BEWARE

Hamilton managed to work in at least two Triple Word Scores with use of terms that resonate well with genre fans: ouroboros (remember Scully's tattoo, anyone?) and oubliette (yay! Jareth would be so pleased). But the newest term created for the Blakeverse? Panwere. Because it was not enough to have werewolves, wereleopards, wererats, wereswans, weresnakes, weretigers, werehyenas, weredogs and werebears. Nay, we also have to have someone who can shapeshift into...more
Cat Russell  ~Addicted2Heroines~
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Kari Ramirez
It's really sad the direction this series has gone. The first few books we SO GOOD! Scary and tense with a little sexual tension, but mostly just scary and tense. Then she introduced Richard and things started to go downhill. I don't mind a little romance in my blood & gore, but this is ridiculous. If I wanted to read supernatural porn I'd read Merry Gentry's series. Wait, I already did. So why would I want to read this crap?

It's no longer about the baddies that come out at ni...more
Sammie =^.^=
this was an intense book, so much going on. Anita poor Anita it's hard to be a badass when your badassness is running on low. Richard at first I was like oh awesome he's becoming cool, calm and collected and getting with the program ummmmm WRONG!!!! This man was more up & down and more emotional than a woman on PMS.

Jean Claude was as usual as calm and cool and sexy as always except when he attacked Micah now that was a trip.... OK so what is it with he shifter boys, they all seem ...more
mlady_rebecca
This is still one of my favorite books in the Anita Blake series. Part of that is that it was the last book I read when I first discovered the series and read them in one great rush. (In other words, "Cerulean Sins" was the first book I had to wait for.) But a lot of it is the fact that I like the possibilities this book opened up.

This book represented a turning point in the series, one that many readers disliked, but I was quite fond of.

There is an underlying ...more
LJ
Narcissus in Chains - Ok
Laurell K. Hamilton - 10th in series
Wounded in battle at a bondage club while trying to save one of the were-leopards she is protecting, Anita Blake, vampire hunter, wakes up naked in bed with a couple of strange men and discovers that the wounds she suffered in the rescue may be turning her into a werewolf herself. As usual in this series, there's lots of sexual tension as Anita tries to balance her two lovers, vampire Jean-Claude and alpha werewolf Richard, ...more
♪♫♪~*Music*Luver*~♪♫♪
i thought that this book was sad in a way. one...richard left broke up with anita. and for a stupid reason. just because she is more cozy with "monsters" than he is. then she got symptoms of being a sucubus from Jean Claude when he gave her the fourth mark. and when she fed off of Richard...he was like goin cookoo for coco puffs. im mean...u cant tell me he did not like it..and he had a chance to stop it or walk away...but he didn't...so its partly his fault. i dont know how i feel abo...more
Jody Mena
This wasn't one of my favorite books in the series, though it was still great, lots of action and lots of new interesting characters. For some reason Narcissus makes me think of Twiggy Ramirez, probably because of the dress. Chimera was a fun foe, though I though it would have been more fun if he'd played a bigger part throughout the book, rather than simply rearing his ugly head at the last minute. I was not impressed with Micah, his character is two dimensional enough that he seems to me li...more
Katherine
Narcissus in Chains, Book 10 in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series, was a very complex read. It was a little hard to follow because at this point, Anita Blake is still recognized as Lupa (but maybe not for long, as Richard, Ulfric wolf-king of his clan, decides to break it off because he can't accept what she's become--HYPOCRITE!--which makes me mad because he proves again that he is a sissy leader, and doesn't appreciate the fact that he's lucky she loves him), Nimir-Ra (of the wereleopards)...more
Myvampfiction
Reviewed by Ciara

*Warning: possible spoilers ahead.*

After a long leave of absence from all her paranormal responsibilities, Anita is back in St Louis fulltime, and ends up neck deep in trouble straight away.

Fans of Jean Claude will be happy to see he makes a long awaited return in this book. Anita has been avoiding him for the last six months while she figures out how she feels about him, and all the metaphysical complications that come with him.

An...more
***Dave Hill
(Original review, Dec 2006 http://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2006/12/12/... )

Overall: 3/5
Story: 2/5
Re-Readability: 4/5
Characters: 2/5

The tenth installment in the Anita Blake novels is where the series really, truly, goes off the rails. This is as far as I’ve gotten, both in my original reading and in this current rereading of the series — though I’ve every attention of going on from here — but this book exemplifies what’s gone wrong with this series from its ...more
Katie
Katie rated it 1 of 5 stars
Blech. I started this garbage & it's been laying on my floor for a few weeks & honestly, I don't think I'm going to pick it back up. It was so...tedious...to read. Anita faces her initial problem & goes to a S&M club to address it. She gets so caught up in so much...sexual whatsit...that by the time we come back to original problem, I'd forgotten that the author had initiated a plot way back at the beginning of the book.

I'll copy someone else's review 'cause I think they put it w...more
K.T.
K.T. rated it 1 of 5 stars
Shelves: supernatural
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Ithlilian
Having read book 11 and on before reading this I'm used to the style of this book, the ardeur, and the moral dilemmas. I enjoyed the later books in this series, so I thought I'd like this one as well. My overall opinion is that it was ok. A few things bothered me a bit and I found myself skipping around. The dialogue in this book is very simplistic. I didn't enjoy the conversations about mundane things in the middle of all the turmoil that was going on in the story. The book was rushed, but at t...more
Free Fall
For reasons involving careful inspection of the cover art and not much else, this was the first book in the Anita Blake series I read. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe I should read the first one since it's supposed to be better, but this really shocked me.

And yes, I am a bit of a prude. Still.

Practically the moment I dive in, I'm inundated with images of Anita and a supernatural club called Narcissus in Chains. Fair enough, even if I can't keep track of all the characters' name...more
Mary Grace
As I said in my last review, I was hoping that the downhill slope that Hamilton is heading with the series must stop with this book, but I was left disappointed. The book remained in the pattern that it took after Obsidian Butterfly and if this continues, the fans of the series will certainly look for alternative options.


This novel indeed introduced a new character but also was an addition to the growing pile of Anita's lovers which is not really a good since if you ask me. I d...more
Manee
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Deserie
I have to say going into this book I was a little worries as many of the reviews focused on how the series was going down hill; however, I must say that those reviewers were WRONG. I think this series has just started to really get into the "good stuff." A few questioned just who Anita was becoming with her promiscuous (sp?) ways and what the actual plot was for this book. If you have to question it, then you either need to read it again. This book really shows Anita coming into he...more
Cila517
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Taralyn Evans
Taralyn Evans rated it 3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: anyone who loves vampires and shapeshifters who doesn't mind the rampant sex scene thrown in.
Recommended to Taralyn by: Xavian Snarr and Cheya Snarr
"The beginning of the end" how melodramatic. Sure, this is the end of regular bad ass Anita Blake but this is also the birth of Anita Blake: typical vampire hunter. When we watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer we're watching because she looks hot as she slays vamps. Now Anita has been given the opportunity to fit more stereotypically into the genre with the delicious new vampire power... the ardeur.

Suddenly robbed of the option of staying chaste, Anita must feed off of sexual ene...more
Jennifer
oh dear. After possibly the best, tightest, most suspenseful Anita Blake book yet (Obsidian Butterfly), we get this WEIRD story. At first I liked it because Anita's back in St Louis and it looks like she's reuniting with both JC and Richard and apparently everybody is going to be OK with that (after god knows how much drama to get there). But then she gets attacked, contracts lycanthropy (supposedly), and wakes up with strange naked men, one of whom she pretty much immediately screws in the show...more
NicNacNoodle
Okey dokey, so I said in my review of the last book in this series Obsidian Butterfly, that it was not well received, this book, #10 in the series, fell slightly into that unwanted category too, but for very different reasons.

This time round we see a lot more of Richard and Jean-Claude, which is good, and there is also a new character introduced, Micah, which is also good. There can never be enough sexy love interests. Or can there?

It seems Hamilton has taken the raunchy ...more
Laura
So Anita's back home in St. Louis and ready to deal with the mess that is her love life... which means we get to deal with Richard's wishywashiness again. Ugh!. Damian's back. Minimal Jason. Nathaniel's growing up and fleshing out. No Willie. Some Asher but he's being all melodramatic and hurt feelings, too. And we get Micah and the Ardeur.

Narcissus in Chains has many of characters who don't like who and what they are. Anita has learned to like what she was but now she's not human anym...more
Crystal
Helloooo ardeur! This book was HOT! Not only was it super hot and sexy but I was sooo glad to have some of the usual characters back into play! I find it amusing that so many of the people who have reviewed this book on other sites (amazon) have absolutely HATED this and the rest of the series. Personally, I only read through the first half of the series to get to the second half. I think the "monster" version of Anita is much more interesting. Her transformation from book 1 to b...more
Rick
[My opinion, for what it‘s worth...exactly:]

With the exception of Micah, I've read the entire Anita Blake series up to this point (Blood Noir, #16) and, in the aforementioned opinion, Obsidian Butterfly was the last decent book, after which the series should have been renamed Anita Blake, Vampire Humper since the majority of what little action takes place occurs in the bedroom, the back seat of automobiles, on the kitchen table, the bathroom floor...etc, etc, etc.

Beginning with Narcissus In C

...more
Adriane
I really liked this edition to the series, it had Anita growing as a person, finding out what she's truly made of and her of course being uncomfortable with it.

*Spoilers*

So this also shows what Richard is truly made of and frankly I'm tired of him, at first it was sweet that he was so gentle with her and he's a teacher and all this business, but you can't hide from what you are or who you are. He can't love her and hate her at the same time so he self implodes and leave...more
Bookworms
I was very disappointed from the last book with Edward. But now the “old” Laurell is back. Very fast story with a lot of action, blood, horror scences and a lot of erotic and sex. She increased the amount of all. Someone will be horrified of this book, because some scense are very shocking, especially the scene with Nathaniel at the beginnig. But I don’t now, if you read all 9 books before, you shouldn’t be shocked so many. Because the fans from her know that this books are not like “nice romanc...more
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