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    <body><![CDATA[I gave this book two stars because it was not actually technically flawed, and if you suspect there is a 'but' coming up, you are correct!<br/><br/>Anna, the protagonist, is made a vampire when she bites her rapist back.  Then, she is possessed by some sort of vampiric rapturous lust, which Anna, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23919135">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was pretty disappointed by this novel- it struck me as boring and predictable, and not in any good ways. I found some of the character's actions really surprising and didn't seem logical or fit with the character at all- until I realized that Stein needed them to something in order to move the plo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19283627">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this was an interesting take on vampires. Anna Strong is a bounty hunter and is attacked one night on the job by a vampire. She ends up in the hospital and eventually discovers what happens to her. Dr. Avery explains that he is also a vampire and he takes her under his wing to teach her al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44420537">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Title in German:<br/>Verführung der Nacht<br/><br/>Anna and her partner David are bounty hunters and one night while chasing an escaped criminal she gets attacked and accidently turned into a vampire. First she can´t believe what she had become but soon other vampires are getting interested in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9638140">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Argh, this was just too dreadful, I couldn't get further than halfway.  A really awful I-just-got-turned-into-a-vampire story.  Honestly, the heroine meets a vampire who says he's going to guide her in the ways of vampires, blah blah blah, she falls in bed with him, wakes up the next morning thinkin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6668445">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book looked similar to Jeaniene Frost's series so I decided to give it a try. Very similar. This story is a bit of romance, bit of fantasy and bit of action.<br/><br/>Anna is a bounty hunter. She gave up a job she hated, teaching, for a job she loved, Bounty Hunting. She doesn't work alone bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60015838">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a short light read; I finished it in two hours. At first, I wasn't sure if I liked Stein's almost-choppy, present-tense writing, but I got used to it. I did like Stein's new take on vampires, though--evolving to stand the sunlight like any other human, etc.<br/><br/>Still, I felt that the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60141464">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[after reading all  of the reviews i really didn't expect much from this book.  i was pleasantly surprised.  it was decent.  not the best book i ever read but it was good.  the plot was easy to follow, and figure out, but it was non the less a quick easy read.  a little different take on vampires mak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60750783">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am absolutely delighted by this series.  I didn't know about Jeanne Stein and her &quot;Anna Strong Vampire&quot; series until I read a vamp story by this author in the new anthology &quot;Many Bloody Returns.&quot;  Hers was one of my favorites, and that is the reason I read anthologies...to disc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7571952">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Anna Strong is trained for anything-until she's attacked one night, only to awaken in a dark world that exists between the living and the dead. Here, Anna struggles with her love for the two men who inhabit the realms of each: Max, a human DEA agent, and Avery, a Night Watcher who joins Anna in pursuit of the vampire who changed her life. <br/><br/> Now, as her two worlds collide, fate plunges Anna into the ultimate battle between good and evil where survival is not just for the living.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story may be good, I don't know.  I just couldn't finish the book because it's written in first person, present tense.  I never realized how natural stories told in past tense are until this.  It was very uncomfortable for me and I just couldn't get past it.  Therefore, I couldn't get into the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54585733">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Anna Strong as the main character.  I thought she was cool, but the story was a little bland for me.  I'll probably continue with the series to see if it gets better.  Sometimes the first books in series aren't great, but as the story and characters gain momentum, they get better.  We'll see.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64297334">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This, the first book in the &quot;Anna Strong&quot; series, is a most worthy addition to the vampire genre.  Like many newer &quot;vampire&quot; series, it takes previous vampire mythology and spins it to create something new.  Anna is an excellent main character, a strong female, but not completely...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7122429">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting introduction to a vampire series.  Instead of the heroine being the non-vampire, for once, she IS the vampire.  Attacked while trailing a bond jumper with her partner in her bounty hunter business, Anna finds herself transforming slowly into a vampire.  A doctor takes an all-too-perso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5833644">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For anyone who likes the Buffy sort of vampire, this is a book for you.  I liked the mythology and definitely enjoyed the writing.  The ending intrigued me enough that I'll keep looking for the rest of this series.<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was nothing special.  Wasn't horrific, so if you have time to kill and want to spend it reading some new urban fantasy, you can give this a shot, but I have no desire to read the second book in the series.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Anna Strong is trained for anything-until she's attacked one night, only to awaken in a dark world that exists between the living and the dead. Here, Anna struggles with her love for the two men who inhabit the realms of each: Max, a human DEA agent, and Avery, a Night Watcher who joins Anna in pursuit of the vampire who changed her life. <br/><br/> Now, as her two worlds collide, fate plunges Anna into the ultimate battle between good and evil where survival is not just for the living.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like the quick read. Not a bad story for another take on kick ass bounty hunters and vampires. The characters are easy to fall in love with. I especially like Avery, a 300 year old vamp doctor.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I discovered Jeanne C. Stein's latest release, <em>The Watcher</em>, at a bookstore in Richmond.  I love vampire stories and am a big Laurell K. Hamilton fan, so Stein's book caught my eye.  When I discovered she'd written two previous books for this series, I bought all three.  <br/><br/><em>The Becoming</em> is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11446088">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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