Incubus Dreams (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 12)
by Laurell K. Hamilton
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Read in January, 2008
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Oh, if only you could choose less than one star for a rating.
I had heard such good things about Laurell K. Hamilton and her Anita Blake series. Obviously they weren't talking about this particular installment. Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter? That's obviously a typo that got past the editing team. Anita Blake: Vampire Humper would be the correct turn of phrase.
I picked it up expecting a fast paced, semi-noir, vampire-staking extravanza. But no. NO, No, no. Not even close.
What I go...more
I had heard such good things about Laurell K. Hamilton and her Anita Blake series. Obviously they weren't talking about this particular installment. Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter? That's obviously a typo that got past the editing team. Anita Blake: Vampire Humper would be the correct turn of phrase.
I picked it up expecting a fast paced, semi-noir, vampire-staking extravanza. But no. NO, No, no. Not even close.
What I go...more
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Read in November, 2004
The twelfth novel in the “Anita Blake Vampire Hunter” series, the book has Anita investigating the serial murders of several strippers. The police find multiple bite marks on the victims. The killer(s) seem to be vampires, and the police call her in as their paranormal expert. The investigation turns action packed as it progresses, with a fast and furious conclusion, a common theme to her books.
The series can be read separately, but is best enjoyed and understood if read in order as Ha...more
The series can be read separately, but is best enjoyed and understood if read in order as Ha...more
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Read in October, 2004
I hedged between 7 and 8 for this particular book but finally settled on 7 since I don't feel it measures up to LKH's past work. Though others have claimed it's awful, I just like LKH's writing style way too much to give this book anything less than a 7.
That said, there was very little substance to the story beyond the Ardeur. I'm not saying that that was the only story line, but it was the primary one, and it took up at least 75% of the book, which is a quite hefty 658 pages to begin wi...more
That said, there was very little substance to the story beyond the Ardeur. I'm not saying that that was the only story line, but it was the primary one, and it took up at least 75% of the book, which is a quite hefty 658 pages to begin wi...more
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The story was missing. And by story I mean plot. This was a sex-fest. In a span of about three books she has changed this series from a paranormal-detective-suspense-drama to porn. I KID YOU NOT! Once she hit that New York Times Best Seller List it was all lost. More sex, less...well less everything else. I feels it's like a Trump situation. There is no one telling her that her toupee looks bad. Her fans talk about it in message boards, but I heard she has bad mouthed a few for criticizing. Ever...more
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Read in September, 2007
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"Already metaphysically connected to master vampire Jean-Claude and to Richard, the Ulric of the St. Louis werewolf pack, Anita finds herself in another supernatural triumvirate, this one with the seductive, shape-shifting stripper Nathaniel and the beautiful bloodsucker Damian. With so many preternatural bonds, Anita finds herself struggling to come to grips with the potentially deadly disadvantages -- and the mind-blowing benefits -- of the complicated arrangement. As Anita is just beginn...more
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The very worst of the lot. She hit a new low with this one and it's a true tragedy to see how horrible this book is when compared to her earlier books in the same series. The series had been going down hill since Narcissus in Chains and bottomed out here, where you have to hold out til page 480 before plot even makes a pretense of beginning. That alone is simply inexcusable, but then, just as I had hope for a plot, it disappeared in a cluster of shadowed and dewy eyes fringed with smoky lashes,...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Read in September, 2006
This was the last of this series I will purchase full price. I was so disappointed in this book. The mystery portion of the story, which is what I've always enjoyed most, wasn't even given a backseat to the sex and dealing with Anita's moral dilemmas. It was just tossed out the window until the last 40 or so pages. Felt like it was more of an "Oh yeah, I gotta deal with this little situation too" afterthought. I feel like the author has created so many hunky male characters that she ca...more
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The first several novels in the Anita Blake series are great. Funny, scary, a touch gory and a touch sexy. As you read each book, you can really see the character development as Anita becomes more sure of herself and more comfortable with the "monsters". However, some the later books have deteriorated into little more than soft porn for women. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
However, I feel it cheapens the series, which features a great role model in Anita as a women who...more
However, I feel it cheapens the series, which features a great role model in Anita as a women who...more
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Read in May, 2007
recommends it for:
fans of the supernatural
Book 12 of the series has Anita pursuing serial killer vamps targeting female strippers and using mind tricks on humans to hide themselves. The ardeur is also causing issues for Anita as it is requiring more frequent "feedings". Mostly because Anita has now formed her own triumverate with Nathaniel and Damian, something unheard of and therefore no one can really offer her any assistance in understanding how her powers work. Another thing that doesn't help is that Anita is a necroman...more
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Dreck. Unsexy porn, really.
After reading some of the early novels in this series, I really wish I could rate this lower. The earlier books are pretty darn GOOD - interesting mysteries with action, blood 'n guts, and actual romance. The erotic scenes were actually, well, erotic. However, Incubus Dreams has very little plot - just sex...and don't get me wrong - I don't mind a little sex or erotic interludes...but this sex isn't sexy or erotic - it's just gross.
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After reading some of the early novels in this series, I really wish I could rate this lower. The earlier books are pretty darn GOOD - interesting mysteries with action, blood 'n guts, and actual romance. The erotic scenes were actually, well, erotic. However, Incubus Dreams has very little plot - just sex...and don't get me wrong - I don't mind a little sex or erotic interludes...but this sex isn't sexy or erotic - it's just gross.
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recommends it for: Fans of Jim Butcher & Kim Harrison
recommends it for: Fans of Jim Butcher & Kim Harrison
Yet another one of my faves in the Vampire Hunter series. A lot of fans are against the current storyline and how Laurell has turned the lead character into a full-blown Succubus, but I know she has a plan and we just have to be patient and wait for it all to unravel.
If she were a man writing such detailed sex scenes, no one would have a problem with it. Sorry, but this is the 21st century. I have yet to see her write anything that didn't have some semblance of purpose as the storylines pro...more
If she were a man writing such detailed sex scenes, no one would have a problem with it. Sorry, but this is the 21st century. I have yet to see her write anything that didn't have some semblance of purpose as the storylines pro...more
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Read in June, 2007
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a masochist
LKH has reached a new low with this book. The story is boring and slow. The characters don't even resemble themselves anymore. The set ups for the sex scenes are lamer than most plots for pornos. This isn't a book it's masturbation in print form.
I have this audio book. I would only recommend this in this format for the mild amusement that comes from listen to the poor woman, who got stuck with reading this book, try her best to give meaning to this atrocious tripe.
I have this audio book. I would only recommend this in this format for the mild amusement that comes from listen to the poor woman, who got stuck with reading this book, try her best to give meaning to this atrocious tripe.
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Is there a rating below one star? This book represents the rape and pillage of what used to be a genre defining series. I keep thinking "It can't get worse"...wrong.
I vowed not to read past this point until someone I trust gives an Anita Blake book a good review. I'm looking for the reset button on this series. When was the last time Anita did anything with the police, took a case, went to work, did something useful beyond boink the supernatural?
I vowed not to read past this point until someone I trust gives an Anita Blake book a good review. I'm looking for the reset button on this series. When was the last time Anita did anything with the police, took a case, went to work, did something useful beyond boink the supernatural?
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Read in February, 2005
I'm really dissappointed with the main character's developement. I had thought the main goal of her character was to be a kick-butt kind of chick that killed big bad goulies. But these last few books (especially this one) are way too intent on bedroom activities. It's about sex and not being a vampire hunter. I want her hunting vampires, raising the dead, and solving prenatural murders that the police are too stupid and too ignorant to solve themselves.
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Read in January, 2005
I kept reading the books because I had loved the first 5 or 6 of them, at this point I was wondering why I still kept reading them - to tell the truth, I guess I keep hoping that there will be some further character growth, and that the series will return to its roots of an ass-kicking heroine who has a very unusual job
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Sadly, I feel in these later books, Hamilton begins to lose the fantastic stories and width that made her books so compelling. She starts to focus more and more on sex to the point that you wonder if anything else is actually going to happen in her novels. If you're a die hard fan, though, continue reading because in latest books (The Harlequin), she does begin to come back to her original style.
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I wish LKH would return to the quality she began with, and step away from the mindless sex, that I agree is an integral part of the story, but has become the ENTIRE STORY.. with no story line. It gets old.
I will continue to read these, as I have to believe LKH will find her way back. I've been a fan for years, and it would really suck to give up characters I've had around just as long.
I will continue to read these, as I have to believe LKH will find her way back. I've been a fan for years, and it would really suck to give up characters I've had around just as long.
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Awewsome...but now im even more confused bout Richard and Anita...i mean...i dont get wat is so wrong with accepting who he is...idk. and now anita is goin out with Nathanial...so thats wat? 4 people she is goin out with?? dont worry...they all know about the other ppl. there is a reason she has so many boyfriends. she dosnt want that many but thats the way things turned out. twas awesome!
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Read in November, 2004
This book is sponsored by the phrase "just flat does it," as in "just flat did it for him" or "just flat does it for me." She says it like a dozen times. I have no respect for such repetition of phrase. Anita, maybe among all your new powers, you could pick up a little eloquence along with the beast and the bloodlust, hmm?
Here I end with this series. It went from bad to truly porny.
Here I end with this series. It went from bad to truly porny.
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