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Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #3)
When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake's town, a battle of the undead ensues.
Mass Market Paperback, 329 pages
Published
September 24th 2002
by Jove
(first published May 1st 1995)
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I am really enjoying my rereading of this series. Going back to the beginning of the series has reminded me why I continue to read along even though it has morphed into another beast entirely. These early books were so great because the men and the sex weren’t the focus of the entire freaking plot.
Here Anita is still working as an animator and an assistant to preternatural police force. Anita has a full plate, as usual, after a full night of corpse raising, she’s then hounded by members of “the...more
Here Anita is still working as an animator and an assistant to preternatural police force. Anita has a full plate, as usual, after a full night of corpse raising, she’s then hounded by members of “the...more
Dec 30, 2011
Tilly Slaton
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I love Laurell Hamilton’s work. The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is outstanding!
The first two books in this series, Guilty Pleasures and The Laughing Corpse are amazing pieces of work.
This book declares no less awesomeness. This is the book that wraps you around the series and pulls everything together. This book is really the beginning of the journey that whips and turns you into a reality that is completely twisted, morbid and simply put, cool!
Anita Blake is introduced to a few character...more
The first two books in this series, Guilty Pleasures and The Laughing Corpse are amazing pieces of work.
This book declares no less awesomeness. This is the book that wraps you around the series and pulls everything together. This book is really the beginning of the journey that whips and turns you into a reality that is completely twisted, morbid and simply put, cool!
Anita Blake is introduced to a few character...more
I also thought the premise of Anita Blake was pretty cool. She's an Animator, see? She raises zombies for a living. And vampires are legal citizens. Eventually, she's supposed to get involved with both a vampire and a werewolf. I say eventually cause even though I thought this was a central theme of the books, I've read 2 and a half of them and there have been nary a creature-of-the-night and vampire hunter smoochie. I take that back. There was one, but it was one of those contrived "fake kiss s...more
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review by Ciara
*Warning: possible spoilers ahead.*
Circus of the Damned, the third of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton, opens with Anita meeting with members of Humans First, an organization campaigning to have vampires criminalized again.
They ask for the daytime resting place of the Master of the City. Anita refuses, but there is a bit of deliberation. Not so long ago, she would have believed that staking a vampire wasn’t murder. Things have changed over the course o...more
*Warning: possible spoilers ahead.*
Circus of the Damned, the third of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton, opens with Anita meeting with members of Humans First, an organization campaigning to have vampires criminalized again.
They ask for the daytime resting place of the Master of the City. Anita refuses, but there is a bit of deliberation. Not so long ago, she would have believed that staking a vampire wasn’t murder. Things have changed over the course o...more
For all the Anita Blake books - I started this series with my then friend, Meredith - she actually got me hooked that fateful summer of 2000 when I was living on her wooden floor in Brooklyn. We were both unemployed and bored and got hooked into this series. I loved Anita Blake because it was before I discovered the new genre - what I like to call "badass chicks who kick ass!" written in first person - and so she was all empowering and of course there were hot vampires and werewolves in it.
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Without a doubt, better than the first two. I really like Jean-Claud. He is the reason I am reading these books. I have never wanted a bad guy to get the girl before, it's fun. Anita was a bit disappointing. I'm beginning to wonder if Jean-Claud deserves better.
The swearing is excessive and redundant. And I realize that in a series you have to make each book a stand alone and therefore have to explain the same thing several times. But does it have to be word for word? There are literally paragra...more
The swearing is excessive and redundant. And I realize that in a series you have to make each book a stand alone and therefore have to explain the same thing several times. But does it have to be word for word? There are literally paragra...more
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So far this book is the best in the series. I am only on book 4. They keep getting better. The ending was dramatic and had me immediately reaching for book 4 (Lunatic Cafe).
Personalmente questa serie mi sta prendendo sempre più. Quuesto in particolare evidenza in modo perfetto l'estrema incapacità di Anita di confrontarsi con i sentimenti. Può combattere vampiri, licantropi e zombi ma quando si tratta di capire qualcosa di sentimenti fugge. E' ben visibile la tua attrazione per il Master della Città che, molto romanticamente, ricambia. Anzi, lui sembra offrirle addirittura una storia monogama. Questo ha l'effetto di far alzare tutte le difese di Anita che rifugge a...more
Well, I got through this one in short order. It was full of Vampire lore, vampire gore, and, in a few parts, a little vampire bore. The action was well written, but it just seemed as if the plot's purpose was to move from one extremely violent acttion to another.
Okay, the erotic entendres and the lustful stuff doesn't do anything for me. I cannot picture Anita being attracted to Jean Claude while being utterly repulsed by him at the same time. This split personality feeling is the basis for a g...more
Okay, the erotic entendres and the lustful stuff doesn't do anything for me. I cannot picture Anita being attracted to Jean Claude while being utterly repulsed by him at the same time. This split personality feeling is the basis for a g...more
This has been my favorite book of the Anita Vampire hunter series so far. There was a great depth in this book and I really enjoyed meeting so many new characters in the supernatural "under" world and the battle royale throwdown.
Anita really comes into her own in this entry in the series. She really sees & believes in her powers as a necromancer. As she finds her strength others in her life suffer but ultimately the flawed but religious Anita comes to her friend/lovers defense (if only she k...more
Anita really comes into her own in this entry in the series. She really sees & believes in her powers as a necromancer. As she finds her strength others in her life suffer but ultimately the flawed but religious Anita comes to her friend/lovers defense (if only she k...more
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Anita’nın bu kitabı daha aksiyonluydu. Kitapta asıl olay şehrin efendisini tahtından indirmeye çalışan çok güçlü bir milyon yaşındaki vampir ve onun bunu elde etmek için Anita’ya karşı oynadığı oyunlar. Her şey vampir saldırılarıyla başlıyor, şehirde bir başvampir olduğundan şüpheleniyorlar ve de haklılar. Onlar ortaya atılmış minik ipuçlarının peşinden koşarken Richard adlı kurt adam ile de tanışıyor JC sayesinde. Anita onu en başta insan sand...more
Anita’nın bu kitabı daha aksiyonluydu. Kitapta asıl olay şehrin efendisini tahtından indirmeye çalışan çok güçlü bir milyon yaşındaki vampir ve onun bunu elde etmek için Anita’ya karşı oynadığı oyunlar. Her şey vampir saldırılarıyla başlıyor, şehirde bir başvampir olduğundan şüpheleniyorlar ve de haklılar. Onlar ortaya atılmış minik ipuçlarının peşinden koşarken Richard adlı kurt adam ile de tanışıyor JC sayesinde. Anita onu en başta insan sand...more
Jean Claude owns all the businesses in st. Louis...
First I want to say omg! Jean Claude owns guilty pleasures, the laughing corpse and the circus of the damned. Is he wealthy or what?
And I loved this book, I kind of hate Anita at this point because she is always so defensive towards everyone. And at the end I just wanted to beat her to death for picking nice teacher werewolf Richard instead of all mighty Jean claude. If only she wasn't so stubborn she would have been Jean claude's servant by no...more
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Jul 15, 2012
Angela
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4 of 5 stars
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The third novel of Hamilton's Anita Blake series has the petite necromancer fighting a giant cobra and a rogue vampire, Alejandro, who wants her for his human servant. Anita is still resisting the advances of Jean-Claude, St. Louis's master vampire, but she does need him on her side, if not in her bed. Anita's reluctant involvement in the odd goings-on at the supernatural Circus of the Damned introduces her to Richard, the werewolf of her dreams, and Larry, her powerful but nervous partner in zo...more
"Circus of the Damned" by Laurel K. Hamilton wasn't a bad book. It's not Dickens or Dostoevsky, but it certainly rattles along and I don't think Hamilton ever laid claim to being either of those authors anyway.
It is a sort of an R-rated "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" mixed with a murder mystery, however. In this book, Anita Blake (who for some reason I keep wanting to call Anita Baker, after the singer, for some dumb reason) is on the trail of a pack of vampires who are killing people in her native...more
It is a sort of an R-rated "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" mixed with a murder mystery, however. In this book, Anita Blake (who for some reason I keep wanting to call Anita Baker, after the singer, for some dumb reason) is on the trail of a pack of vampires who are killing people in her native...more
The word is out that Anita is Jean-Claude's human servant, and that he wants to talk to her. Anita, while fetching information on a police case, meets up with an informant at a well known vampire bar, where it becomes clear that the new master of the city is requesting her presence.
In this book, Anita comes face to face a creature she though extinct.
I want to point out once again the amount of research I am sure that has to go in these books, the fact that she takes enough time to do it really...more
In this book, Anita comes face to face a creature she though extinct.
I want to point out once again the amount of research I am sure that has to go in these books, the fact that she takes enough time to do it really...more
The third in the Anita Blake series, and another one of my favorites. This time around we're introduced to a character that soon became my most hated in the series; Richard. He screams of everything in a man I dislike from the very beginning, so of course I hoped she would end up with Jean Claude.
I liked the mystery in this one, because it wasn't the sole focus. we get to see more of Anita in her daily life, and more of her interactions with Jean Claude. Her animating is brought more into focus...more
I liked the mystery in this one, because it wasn't the sole focus. we get to see more of Anita in her daily life, and more of her interactions with Jean Claude. Her animating is brought more into focus...more
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Ahhh, classic Anita Blake before the series started to go downhill and become "Anita Blake, Vampire Womanwhore." In the early books, she still kicks ass. She doesn't sleep around -- in fact, she is leery of Jean-Claude and sticks by her guns when he tries to force her into doing things she doesn't want to do. I liked the fact that she was so self-sufficient and powerful and yet still had morals.
Circus of the Damned starts out with a vampire-run circus that relies partly on illusion, but also par...more
Circus of the Damned starts out with a vampire-run circus that relies partly on illusion, but also par...more
Finally! We have werewolves! No seriously this is the first time we've seen werewolves sin this series. In the first book we had wererats, which is a pretty interesting concept. The second had no weres that I can remember save for Ivan the reporter guy who we’re told was a werewolf but never shifted. So I’m happy to say that the third book in the series finally shows me what all the fuss was about for this series.
The plot starts up right away with a vampire victim case being brought to Anita B...more
The plot starts up right away with a vampire victim case being brought to Anita B...more
Jun 26, 2011
Jennifer (Books That Spark)
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5 of 5 stars
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Circus of the Damned is the third instalment in Laurell K. Hamilton's acclaimed Anita Blake series. Before picking up this instalment, I recommend reading the prior two books in the series to allow the plot to run in a coherent manner. This will save from confusion in relation to the background of the plot and characters.
In this instalment protagonist Anita Blake, whose profession is as a animator and vampire executioner, is caught in the middle and left to deal with the consequences when a rogu...more
In this instalment protagonist Anita Blake, whose profession is as a animator and vampire executioner, is caught in the middle and left to deal with the consequences when a rogu...more
Third in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter urban fantasy series set in a contemporary St. Louis, Missouri.
The Story
The story starts with a confrontation between Anita and Jeremy Ruebens, the leader of Humans First, and a cohort of his, Karl Inger, at the Animators, Inc. office. They're interested in finding out the daytime resting place of the Master of the City and they think Anita knows it/him.
Then there's the serial killing—five vamps descending upon one human. Per night. Obviously a master vam...more
The Story
The story starts with a confrontation between Anita and Jeremy Ruebens, the leader of Humans First, and a cohort of his, Karl Inger, at the Animators, Inc. office. They're interested in finding out the daytime resting place of the Master of the City and they think Anita knows it/him.
Then there's the serial killing—five vamps descending upon one human. Per night. Obviously a master vam...more
The book starts out with the line “There was dried chicken blood imbedded under my fingernails. When you raise the dead for a living, you have to spill a little blood.” When a book starts out that way you know you're in for a good ride.
This installment of the Anita Blake series did not disappoint, although it was a little bit slower than the first two while several pieces of storyline came together, and built a foundation for upcoming things in the series. It is kind of ruined on me personally,...more
This installment of the Anita Blake series did not disappoint, although it was a little bit slower than the first two while several pieces of storyline came together, and built a foundation for upcoming things in the series. It is kind of ruined on me personally,...more
Really action packed and very climactic. I am definitely starting to get a little exhausted of the constant power play at this point, but it wasn't un-enjoyable yet. Why didn't anyone ever explain where the heck the giant snake came from in the beginning? The only thing that sticks in my head and nags at me is the sheer deus ex machina of the fact that her little transformation in the last action scene that protects her from something she should not have been able to avoid. I feel, as much as I...more
I had a hard time getting into this book. The mystery took a back seat to vampire politics and people wanting to kill Anita. These books are completely character based, which I don't mind, but the character in this installment didn't shine for me. First, we have numerous vampires trying to make Anita their human servants without her permission. Jean Cleaude saves Anita again for a price she isn't happy with, and she complains about it numerous times. I felt for her, and understood her objections...more
Jan 06, 2011
Molly
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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I read a lot of academic writing for grad school. The only time I can find for "pleasure reading" these days is multitasking time, when I'm listening to an audiobook while performing mundane tasks like cleaning or driving or walking to class. I've found that I don't get along well with audiobooks when I want to really absorb what I'm reading. I listen to them within a few days and then promptly forget most of what happened, or I can't keep the characters straight, or I'll wish that I could flip...more
Cronologicamente questo sarebbe il secondo libro su Anita Blake, ma in pratica prima di questo andrebbe letto dopo Resti Mortali (anche se la cosa non mi sembra infici alcunchè, non accadono enormi avvenimenti che modificano lo status di Anita a quanto ho letto in questo libro).
In questo libro Anita si ritrova al centro di una ragnatela di persone intenzionate a scoprire chi sia il Master della città, ovvero il suo quasi-padrone Jean Claude. Lo cerca Edward, cui non è bastato partecipare all'ucc...more
In questo libro Anita si ritrova al centro di una ragnatela di persone intenzionate a scoprire chi sia il Master della città, ovvero il suo quasi-padrone Jean Claude. Lo cerca Edward, cui non è bastato partecipare all'ucc...more
The third novel of Hamilton's Anita Blake series has the petite necromancer fighting a giant cobra and a rogue vampire, Alejandro, who wants her for his human servant. Anita is still resisting the advances of Jean-Claude, St. Louis's master vampire, but she does need him on her side, if not in her bed. Anita's reluctant involvement in the odd goings-on at the supernatural Circus of the Damned introduces her to Richard, the werewolf of her dreams, and Larry, her powerful but nervous partner in zo...more
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Circus of the Damned
By Laurell K Hamilton
(Headline)
THE Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels are my new favourite series about the undead.
Circus of the Damned is book three of 19.
You know you are in for a thrilling read when a story opens with: “There was dried chicken blood imbedded under my fingernails. When you raise the dead for a living, you have to spill a little blood.”
The story is filled with all sorts of supernatural creatures including werewolves and a lamia – a woman who can turn her legs...more
By Laurell K Hamilton
(Headline)
THE Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels are my new favourite series about the undead.
Circus of the Damned is book three of 19.
You know you are in for a thrilling read when a story opens with: “There was dried chicken blood imbedded under my fingernails. When you raise the dead for a living, you have to spill a little blood.”
The story is filled with all sorts of supernatural creatures including werewolves and a lamia – a woman who can turn her legs...more
Poor, poor Anita. She can never seem to get a break. She's called on again by Dolph and the police to help look at some more "unusual" murders in St. Louis. Anita suspects a rogue master vampire after seeing the victim and bite marks on him from a number of different vamps. The only way to find out if a master vampire is on the loose is to go ask Jean-Claude, which she really doesn't want to do.
At her meeting she meets an ally master vamp of Jean-Claude's named Yasmeen. Beautiful but deadly, she...more
At her meeting she meets an ally master vamp of Jean-Claude's named Yasmeen. Beautiful but deadly, she...more
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Laurell K. Hamilton is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two series that mix mystery, fantasy, magic, horror and romance. Her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels from Berkley Books began with GUILTY PLEASURES and continues to thrive with over sixteen volumes to the series and an comic adaptation. There are now more than 6 million copies of Anita in print worldwide, in 16 languages. Hamilt...more
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