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  <title><![CDATA[Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend, #1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons--predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. But Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires have been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music. Strange attacks have also erupted within the club drug-trafficking network and drawn the attention of the police. These killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. No neat puncture marks in the neck to show where the life's blood has been sucked from the body. These bodies have been mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before. Damali soon discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire she has ever met, and this seductive beast is coming for her next. But his unholy intentions have also drawn the focus of other hellish dark forces. Soon Damali finds herself being pulled deeper into the vast and horrifying vampire world.
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2003</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend, #1)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[L.A. Banks]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 04 00:33:58 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was excited to see a vampire book written by and about an African American woman, but once I started reading I was totally let down and couldn't finish the book.  There's way too much bad dialogue and &quot;hip hop&quot; talk for my tastes.  I don't know anyone (of any color) who speaks like the a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2697799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34292085">
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 01 11:33:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yuck.  The writing was poor, the attitude was bad &amp; the heroine was a whiner.  No redeeming features to this book, IMO. ]]></body>
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    <review id="14877826">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Mar 10 10:48:23 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh. I had high hopes for this book, but it came nowhere near following through. I must admit to not finishing the book. It became due at the library and though I'd made it through half the book, I decided that the book wasn't worth a renewal. And I really hate leaving books unread. If I'd owned it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14877826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44851647">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 30 08:46:07 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 30 08:57:18 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was looking for a new series to get into and had seen rave reviews about this series. Kick-butt female? Vampire hunter? Okay sure, let's give this a shot.<br/><br/>True, it does have a female that kicks butt and who is a vampire hunter. Yes, I can see where the comparison to Buffy and Anita Blak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44851647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40155066">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the beginning of the book, caught my attention immediately, as other vampire books have all this gibberish between teen-agers. L.A. Banks brings action and legends all in one package. What makes me excited to read this book, is to not only see drama in the first few pages, but AA characters--fema...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40155066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27239848">
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 14 14:23:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 14 15:00:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hello goodreads!  This is my 1st review of anything so here goes!  Minion (A Vampire Huntress Legend) by L.A. Banks.  It's been a while since I've read it.  I'm on the 7th or 8th book in the series... but WOW!! I've been hooked on Damali Richards &amp; that sexy Carlos Rivera ever since!  The Vampire Hu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27239848">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27239848]]></url>
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    <review id="28501875">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really excited to start this series, as the cover basically says that if you like Buffy, Anne Rice and Blade, you will LOVE this series.  Well, I don't 'love' it.  In fact, I didn't like the first half much at all, but it FINALLY started to get interesting and then BAM!  Book ends?!? What?!? I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28501875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44636907">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book in the Vampire Huntress series, and it is incredibly hard to get through.  The first 3/4 of the book took me over a week and I'm a fast reader.  However, having read the next two books it's worth it - and I believe that is 100% having to do with Carlos' story.  So while this f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44636907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74494287">
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    <body><![CDATA[Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend is the first of a new vampire trilogy from L. A. Banks - it is a wonderfully imagined beginning to a new, hip group of vampire slayers. By day, they are lead by twenty-year-old Damali Richards, who along with her guardians are Spoken Word artists that travel the cou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74494287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70602576">
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has to be the biggest disappointment I've come across in ages. Literally. I'd gotten the impression that L.A. Banks was a good writer in the paranormal universe, but that is not the impression I'm getting from this book at all. The introduction of this universe is done in a way that feels force...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70602576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62843977">
    <user id="163649">
    <name><![CDATA[Natlyn]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I had read Minion 10 years ago, I probably would have liked it much better. Now however I'm over vampires and need more than a female main character to keep my attention.<br/><br/>What Minion has going for it is intriguing mythology, decent writing, and a multicultural cast. Unfortunately, L.A....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62843977">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39128289">
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really disappointed in this book.  Since it has so many books available in this series, I was looking forward to a good long read.  The story isn't too bad, but the quality of the writing was such that I just couldn't overlook it.  Will not be reading the second in the series.]]></body>
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    <review id="41352029">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Summary:<br/><br/>Damali Richards is a part-time musician and a full-time vampire huntress. Together with her crew, they battle demons and vampires on a seemingly day-to-day basis. But when a new hybrid of vampire/demons starts turning up, and unexplained powers start blossoming in the lead Neteru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41352029">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6036149">
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very disappointed with this book (and this series). Poor writing can sometimes be disguised or ignored because of innovative ideas. Sadly with this book the ideas were trite and  ripped off and the writing so poor that I found it unreadable after the 1st chapter.]]></body>
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    <review id="45611126">
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    <body><![CDATA[Lately I've been choosing the worst books. I am tired of vampires who are so complicated. We've gotta have vampire demon hybrids who only look remotely human for fun and they have some vampire council and they're planning world domination through music and drugs and there's these magical vampire hun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45611126">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43886636">
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    <name><![CDATA[Roylin]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read a good bit of the available vampire books and it is always interesting to see each person's take on Vampire lore...so when I read one that manages to stand out despite the abundance of vampire stories I like to make note of it. This manages to be different, mainly due to the main charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43886636">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Minion is the first book in the Vampire Huntress Legends by L.A. Banks.  <br/><br/>I purchased book #6 in this series back in early 2007 because it had a pretty cover.  It then sat on my bookshelf for over 20 months because I realized it was part of a series.  So, a few months ago I saw Minion in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36999287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me awhile to finish this. It has everything...except a decent plot. The cliches are fast and furious, with a molten lava lake, circles of hell, hybrid vampires, a sassy vampire slayer, and her forbidden love interest. It shamelessly rips off other vampire novels and Buffy. The writing is atr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31500173">more...</a>]]></body>
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