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Jan 09, 2012

Tilly rated it:

As we read further into the Anita Blake series, the theme is more colorful, and surrounded by relationships, sex, blood and more sex. A metaphysical handicap forces Blake to “feed” off of someone as she screws him. It was a neat idea, but in the end it gets a little old. I mean, how many people could she possibly have sex with?

Look! A bad guy! Hold on, I must have sex with this stranger before I can function. I enjoy a nice twisted sexual triangle any day, but the "adeur" More...

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Sep 04, 2011

Lisa rated it:

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 storyl More...

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Aug 25, 2010

Michael rated it:

I don't think I've ever been so relieved to finish a novel, since it ate so much of my time. In my hardcover version, there are 658 pages of the smallest type I've ever seen in any other hardback. To say the least, it was painfully long.

Not that I care how long a book is. If a book keeps me interested enough, I'll be happy to read thousands of pages. But Incubus Dreams is painfully slow, simply because not much is going on. If you've ever read/heard an interview with Laurell K. Hamil More...

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Jan 25, 2010

mlady_rebecca rated it:

First, the cast list:

Of the vamps, we saw plenty of Jean-Claude and Damian, plus Buzz (who hasn't been around much lately) and Malcolm, plus we were introduced to Requiem, Byron, Wicked, and Truth. With the wolves, we saw plenty of Richard and Jason, and we were introduced to Clay and Graham. With the leopards we saw plenty of Nathaniel, Gregory, and Micah. With the wererats, we saw Dr. Lillian, Claudia, and Louie. We saw Ronnie. With RPIT we got Tammy, Jessica Arnet, Zerbrowski, and More...

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Mar 10, 2009

Preeti rated it:

Holy mother of God. I remember reading the reviews for this book - they said there was a lot of sex. Well. They weren't lying. She has sex every few pages or so. As someone pointed out, how is she even able to walk after that?

Now, I am as much of a fan of sex as the next person, and maybe even more than the next person, but come on! How much can a person (I mean the person reading not the person experiencing :P) take? Speaking of which, how much can the person experiencing take too? More...

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Jan 17, 2012

Pikachu rated it:

OK, new rule. Any book that immediately starts out with a wedding where people wear ORANGE AND BLACK is not going to be read by me. My God, the first chapter is all about how much she hates wearing makeup and dressing up and spending money on clothes. I skimmed through and there wasn't much change, except that about fifty pages in she starts complaining about how many partners she has to sleep with. I suppose this is where the series also starts to really, truly tank because all of the books bef More...

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Jan 12, 2012

Lauren rated it:

I think this is it for me. When I started reading this series, it was for a great crime/action/paranormal book. And then the Richard vs. Jean Claude thing started and I was all for some romance. I don't mind a sex scene thrown in here or there, they liven things up in the right places. But somewhere around book 10, or maybe a little before, I lost my great action novel and apparently started reading erotica with the same series name.

This book start out relatively strong. Someone dies, More...

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Dec 29, 2011

Trevor added it

After a very strong start with Guilty Pleasures & Laughing Corpse this series has taken a drastic turn from it's well written and exciting mystery/modern fantasy action beginnings into a embarrassingly disconnected plot nightmare sandwiched in between more and more descriptive and frankly unbelievable sex scenes.

The main character, Anita Blake, has evolved from a near virgin, vampire hating, stickler for the letter of the law to a cold blooded murdering "I'll sleep with anything More...

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Dec 27, 2011

zcb257 rated it:

Aannnnnnd.... This is where I just gave up...

I adored books 1-10, 11 was meh, and I tried so hard to like ID, even just to get through it. I'm a bit OCD when it comes to finishing books, and series. I guess I'm always afraid I'll miss something really good if I don't finish. I tried to read ID for weeks and got only 1/2 way through, considering I usually finish a book in a couple of days, that's really saying something. It's just one giant mess.

I have no problem with More...

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Nov 10, 2011

***Dave rated it:

(Original review Jan 2007)

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

There’s a plot here. I’m sure. I read through all 752 pages of this, the 12th Anita Blake novel, and there were vague hints of a plot toward the end. I think. The rest of the book, though, should have been subtitled, “How I Stopped Worrying and Came to Love Wanton Sex.”

I mean, really. By the end of the first chapter, Anita — erstwhile vampire hunter and current multi-disci More...

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Aug 13, 2011

Xiarog1908 rated it:

So I do have to agree with the majority of the reviews on this book... There was indeed A LOT of sex. In fact a lot is an understatement. And sometimes I would find myself getting annoyed when I turned the page into another sex scene.

But....

I rated this book four stars for a reason. Yes there was quite a bit of sex going on but once I finished it I realized that even though it annoyed me there was a reason for it all, whether that reason be for her growing powers, or so More...

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May 25, 2011

Nick rated it:

This book is where I gave up. I would say it was like Custer’s Last Stand for me…but I didn’t die and I think Custer was an arrogant douche bag.

Anyway, I’m drifting here.

I’ll give LKH one thing—Anita isn’t a static character. She goes from hardass, kick-ass, screw-you (not literally though) heroine into Anita Blake sex kitten who sometimes kills vamps when she’s not having metaphysical three way sexy time and other random sexy time to tame that damn ardeur.

(You m More...

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Apr 15, 2011

Adam rated it:

Well Anita had alot of metephysical stuff happen in this book along being attacked by two different vapires from a Distance one was Moroven and The Other one was the Dragon. Also Anita finaly had come to Relize That The Audeur is a Bellsing which allowed anita to have Nathiel and Damien and Micah and Asher . Also She formed a second Triumverit with Nathaniel and Damien which up her Power level and she found that that she Can use a Vampier as a buffer . Also Anita Raised that dead without us More...

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Feb 20, 2011

Lis rated it:

This is the twelfth book in Hamilton's "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter" series, which is a bad place to start any series. For regular readers, the background has been pretty thoroughly filled in and can be taken for granted, the regular characters all have tons of shared history providing context for their current interactions--and on top of all that, most series, if they reach book twelve, have started to run down several books back.

Nevertheless, despite the fact that I was p More...

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Oct 19, 2010

Mary Grace rated it:

ex and power became boring, just to sum up the review. Anita's character was once the strong female heroine that you would love to read until Blue Moon. The series just revolves around sex, not just casual sex but frequent casual sex making it a priority due to complications which is not likable to me.

Another thing that bothers me is the too-many sexual partners that Anita keeps. The somewhat acceptable setup that Anita, Nathaniel and Micah has. It's not normal but it happens. Still, More...

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Sep 20, 2010

Jeri rated it:

This is working better for me than I'd expected. When first reading this series, I was really anticipating seeing Anita straighten things out re: her relationships with Richard and Jean Claude. I'd never been one of those readers rooting for one or the other; I always figured they'd turn out to be a threesome. Not only was I disappointed in that respect, but I also wasn't particularly thrilled at all the new relationships (and confusing magic) introduced a couple of books ago in NARCISSUS. N More...

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Jan 09, 2010

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Jan 08, 2010

BarkLessWagMore rated it:

This is a huge doorstop of a book and the latest installment of Anita Blake's sexcapades with beautiful otherworldly men.

This one begins at the wedding of Larry & Tammy whom after this interlude are not mentioned again. Anita is one of Larry's groomsmen. Her dates are Micah and Nathaniel. Hey, why bring one when you can have two?! Anita's trying to duck out on dancing with them when she's called to visit a murder scene. Yay, a murder investigation, I thought, the book is getting back More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Andreea rated it:

I started reading the Anita Blake series two weeks ago...while at the beginning it seemed interesting, though just another vampire book, now I'm starting to that this is a complete waste of time.
The most important thing about this book is that Anita has a lot of sex. Continuously. With everybody and everywhere. You start wondering how she can walk anymore, if every two chapters she has sex with someone. Unfortunately, sex is not just a little spice added to the plot of the book. Sex is abo More...

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Dec 10, 2009

Robert rated it:

Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams (Berkley, 2004)

Here we are in the twelfth Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter book. It's been quite a while since Anita Blake did all that much vampire hunting (and what she's been doing with vampires recently has very little to do with hunting). Perhaps it's time to get back to some vampire hunting?

In this one, Anita juggles boyfriends, emotes, kind of makes up with Richard after meeting his new girlfriend, and, oh, investigates a handful of murde More...

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Oct 13, 2009

Rochelle rated it:

I have about 20 pages left of this book to read and I am having the hardest time finishing it. The reason I have read the books until this point is that I read the first 5 or so and they were ok, so I bought 6 through 12 thinking that they would be similar. I was so wrong. Every few pages I find myself rolling my eyes and think to myself "Seriously! Why am I still reading this!" I am making myself finish the ones I have bought and then I am done.

There is way, way, way too More...

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Aug 30, 2010

Yulia rated it:

Lots of erotica...
There actually was a point when I was taking a short break from the book, that I started counting how many people she did in one day.. Moring 1 (and half since), office 1, club 1 (plus a half since the vamp didn't really count), car 1 (this time the vamp did count), office 1= 5/7. Next morning one and a half again, then two.
The romance had it's shiny moment, like the conversation with Jean Clud after which the quote about loving people because or in spit.
I kin More...

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Jun 15, 2011

Virginie.V rated it:

Bon et bien, ce n’est pas mon tome préféré mais ça reste Laurell K. Hamilton donc je mets 4 étoiles !

Il ne se passe pas grands choses, les enquêtes policières, qui jusqu’ici m’ont toujours plu, sont passées à l’as et le mot d’ordre de cette « aventure » est sexe, sexe, sexe et re sexe … Remarque avec un tel titre pouvait-on s’attendre à autre chose ?

Cependant, j’aurais imaginé peut être une nouvelle intrigue impliquant le passé de Jean Claude alors qu’il appartenait à Be More...

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Dec 08, 2010

Wai rated it:

The twelfth book in the Anita Blake series so by this stage, you're either working your way through the series like me, or you've already passed me. If you've not read any at all, don't start here as each book in the series builds on what has gone before, not in terms of direct story line but in terms of who's who.

With that said, there is almost no story here, just a lot of character exposition and even more sex that I think were in the previous books thus far. I'm not complaining abou More...

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Feb 06, 2010

Zeina rated it:

This was the weakest of the lot, so far.
And yet, it started off with an interesting enough premise. A string of killings: this time, the targets are strippers. And of course, as we all know by now, Jean Claude has a strip club.
It could have been interesting, suspenseful. But no. The entire (flabby) midsection of the book all but forgets this and instead reads as "Anita Blake's sex life with the monsters."
I can enjoy that kind of stuff, and a lot of it is sexy (excep More...

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Sep 01, 2011

Gary rated it:

I like this the best out of all the books. Yes there is allot of sex, but what adult does not have sex? What vampire novel does not have a hint of sex? It's about time we have a novel that goes in to the sex of the vampires and there slaves. I would like to see more writers write about the sexual acts of there charters with out having the shallow writing of the Pornographic novels. Sex is something most people say is not that important in life but I disagree in the US the divorce rate is getting More...

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Mar 17, 2011

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Feb 28, 2010

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Nov 24, 2011

NicNacNoodle rated it:

It's got to the point where my patience with this story is running out. I don't want to give up on Anita yet, I've still got several more to go before the end, and after reading so many now, you do kind of feel rather attached, even when you don't exactly like it.

The last couple of books have been trending downward, but this one, Incubus Dreams, just took the cake. My main problem is the incubus/succubus story line. It now forms the basis for the book and although I can see it having More...

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Sep 09, 2011

Cherie rated it:

My ratings system is as follows. One star is GOOD. The book is entertaining, easy to read and you don't want to stop reading because something about the book is compelling you not to. Two stars is GREAT! This time the story is not only entertaining, but highly creative, unique, easy to read and hard to put down. Three stars is EXCELLENT. Here the book has all aspects of one and two stars, but now the book is thought and emotionally provoking. Four is AWESOME. This is the read that is not onl More...

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