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Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1) (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1)
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Learn how Anita Blake started raising the dead-and killing the undead-in Guilty Pleasures, the debut novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
Learn how Anita Blake started raising the dead-and killing the undead-in Guilty Pleasures, the debut novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
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Published
August 20th 2009
by Penguin Audio
(first published 1993)
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Okay, so some of the girls asked that I do a review of the Anita Blake series because I mentioned some things that intrigued them.
It's not a finished series and usually I would reserve judgment on a series until it comes to its conclusion just in case the author was going somewhere I wasn't expecting.
Kind of like that scene out of Austin Powers where Austin's in the bathroom stall with a bad guy and a big Texan man is in the next stall and can only see Austin's feet. He hears Austin Powers grunt...more
It's not a finished series and usually I would reserve judgment on a series until it comes to its conclusion just in case the author was going somewhere I wasn't expecting.
Kind of like that scene out of Austin Powers where Austin's in the bathroom stall with a bad guy and a big Texan man is in the next stall and can only see Austin's feet. He hears Austin Powers grunt...more
Apr 17, 2009
Abigail
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Vampire/Paranormal Fiction Fans
Shelves:
fantasy-sf,
vampires-werewolves
Review Temporarily Removed.
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(This is a massive pan. Just a heads-up.)
I've finally given up on this series, though I'm embarrassed to say it took me about ten books to get there.
This is another of those books where I loved the premise, but the execution made me gag. Anita is insufferable, self-centered and judgmental, and her self-justification for her transformation from noli me tangere virgin to super-slut is laughable. (God apparently told her directly that it was okay. Whatever.)
The appeal for me was always Richard th...more
I've finally given up on this series, though I'm embarrassed to say it took me about ten books to get there.
This is another of those books where I loved the premise, but the execution made me gag. Anita is insufferable, self-centered and judgmental, and her self-justification for her transformation from noli me tangere virgin to super-slut is laughable. (God apparently told her directly that it was okay. Whatever.)
The appeal for me was always Richard th...more
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Anita Blake is a vampire hunter/slayer among other dealings with the undead/occult and she's only in her early twenties. Story is told in a first person P.I. style which means there's some wry humor as well as a focus totally from the main character's POV.
PROS
(1) Fast read;
(2) Vampires are similar to the legends but have enough unique differences where we are dealing with something new and enticing;
(3) Anita is a nice mix of male and female which means she should appeal to both genders;
(4)...more
PROS
(1) Fast read;
(2) Vampires are similar to the legends but have enough unique differences where we are dealing with something new and enticing;
(3) Anita is a nice mix of male and female which means she should appeal to both genders;
(4)...more
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Reread. Back in the day, when Anita wasn't a power hungry, nympho :(
This book reminds how great the Anita Blake series once was. Here Anita Blake has a job as an animator (raising the dead for information for the police force) and isn't spending any of her time lazing in bed with her posse of wimpy beauteous men, she even has girlfriends and we are introduced to an intriguing character named Edward (I had forgotten all about him!).
This is the book where she meets Jean Claude whose charms she is...more
This book reminds how great the Anita Blake series once was. Here Anita Blake has a job as an animator (raising the dead for information for the police force) and isn't spending any of her time lazing in bed with her posse of wimpy beauteous men, she even has girlfriends and we are introduced to an intriguing character named Edward (I had forgotten all about him!).
This is the book where she meets Jean Claude whose charms she is...more
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I never really had any intention of reading this series, but a close friend of mine insisted that I buy the first novel when we were roaming the shelves at Barnes and Noble. Yes, the book grabbed my attention, but I'll painfully admit it was because of the subject matter rather than anything truly engaging that the author wrote.
The truth is I don't really care for Anita Blake's character. Anything she takes any time in describing is pure agony reading. Her continuous lectures on guns is annoyin...more
The truth is I don't really care for Anita Blake's character. Anything she takes any time in describing is pure agony reading. Her continuous lectures on guns is annoyin...more
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Bu seri içinde en sevdiğim iki kitaptan biridir. Her ne kadar içinde Çetin kadın karakter, tehlikeli vampir, şekil değiştiriciler olsada ortada düzgün bir aşk yok. Laurellin son kitabındada böyle, bunu böyle kabul ettik ama eksikliğini duymuyor değiliz.
Anitanın silahlarını anlatışı, onu bunu öldürmesi, Edward ile olan çarpık ilişkisi beni bu seriye bağlayan unsurlardan bir kaçı ger.ekten seviyorum bu kızı.
Jean-Claude. Hayallerimiz vampiri. Fransızlara ola...more
Bu seri içinde en sevdiğim iki kitaptan biridir. Her ne kadar içinde Çetin kadın karakter, tehlikeli vampir, şekil değiştiriciler olsada ortada düzgün bir aşk yok. Laurellin son kitabındada böyle, bunu böyle kabul ettik ama eksikliğini duymuyor değiliz.
Anitanın silahlarını anlatışı, onu bunu öldürmesi, Edward ile olan çarpık ilişkisi beni bu seriye bağlayan unsurlardan bir kaçı ger.ekten seviyorum bu kızı.
Jean-Claude. Hayallerimiz vampiri. Fransızlara ola...more
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I liked this book much more than I had anticipated. I am not sure what all the fuss is about in regards to Anita's promiscuity--uh, there was absolutely no romantic situations in this book. If Hamilton's Merry Gentry series is anything to go by, I am sure the series will heat up in the next few installments.
I actually enjoyed the plot and liked the author's characterization of Anita--being an "animator" puts a spin on things unique to this series. I can see the beginnings of romantic tension Ani...more
I actually enjoyed the plot and liked the author's characterization of Anita--being an "animator" puts a spin on things unique to this series. I can see the beginnings of romantic tension Ani...more
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Dec 29, 2011
Tilly Slaton
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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Laurell Hamilton was completely new to me. I really wasn’t sure what to expect. Well, I was pleasantly surprised. I love her work! I flew through the Anita Blake series. On average, I read a book a day. And on a super lazy day, one and a half.
Guilty Pleasures. Anita Blake. She is an animator. She raises the dead for a living and occasionally consults the new task force that covers all possible paranormal homocides.
Surrounded by monsters, dodging the manipulatice powers that continue to attempt...more
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Well. I'd made the mistake of picking up one of Laurell K. Hamilton's later Anita Blake books and reading it first. I had to stop halfway because to be frank, it sucked. It really, really sucked. I couldn't believe people were paying money for that garbage. But many of my friends insisted that the first few books of the series were actually pretty good and not quite so wlsh fulfillment-esque. So I read the first book.
... it wasn't bad. In fact, it was a much better scale than her later books. Bu...more
... it wasn't bad. In fact, it was a much better scale than her later books. Bu...more
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kitap direkt olaylarla başladığı için kim kimin nesi ne yapiyo pek anlamadim başlarda ama sonra oturuyo.anitanin kisiligini sevdim:) hiç durmayan hızlı tempolu bir kitap. vampirlerden ibaret değil ayrıca. zombiler, fareadamlar, animatörler..çeşit çok;)
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Old review 2007: The world is ours today, except vampires, werewolves & such all exist & are legally recognized. Anita Blake is a tough gal who has a talent for raising zombies. She gets sucked in to paranormal politics & murder mysteries. Great fun to read. I love her character.
This started me & my daughter reading 'Paranormal Romance' (PNR) books & this was one of her best. There are15 20 or so books in the series & I like the first 5 or 10 the best. After that, Hamilt...more
This started me & my daughter reading 'Paranormal Romance' (PNR) books & this was one of her best. There are
The engaging start of a wonderful series that morphs into erotica partway through.
If you like V.I Warshawski, Kinsey Milhone,and other female gumshoes, and you like some fantasy, you will definitely like this series in the beginning. Normal world, normal woman, except that vampires (and other supernatural critters) are real, some have civil rights and coexist with humans more or less peacefully, and the protagonist is a 5'2" gun toting butt kicking necromancer. Her day job is raising the dead f...more
If you like V.I Warshawski, Kinsey Milhone,and other female gumshoes, and you like some fantasy, you will definitely like this series in the beginning. Normal world, normal woman, except that vampires (and other supernatural critters) are real, some have civil rights and coexist with humans more or less peacefully, and the protagonist is a 5'2" gun toting butt kicking necromancer. Her day job is raising the dead f...more
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Feb 18, 2008
Shannon (Giraffe Days)
rated it
1 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
no one, and I don't say that often
I finally got around to reading Guilty Pleasures, the first Anita Blake book, and can at least see why they're not in the Romance section: it's gory and the author doesn't seem to like vampires at all.
I know Hamilton's very well established and has a huge fan base, and I know there are lots of other people who don't like her books, so I feel pretty confident I'm not going to get lynched by saying I'm glad I only spent $2 on this book.
I really didn't like it. This is partly because I was so often...more
I know Hamilton's very well established and has a huge fan base, and I know there are lots of other people who don't like her books, so I feel pretty confident I'm not going to get lynched by saying I'm glad I only spent $2 on this book.
I really didn't like it. This is partly because I was so often...more
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Guilty Pleasures is the first of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series. It’s filled with cool concepts (vampires as citizens, vampire strip clubs, freak parties, the inner-working of a zombie) and catchy descriptions (“silk” and “velvet” adjectives make me happy). But I doubt I’ll continue with the series. It’s described on the cover as a mixture of horror and romance…genre aside, it has too little tension to be scary and too little sex to be sexy.
I also never understood why Anita was a vampire...more
I also never understood why Anita was a vampire...more
All of Ms. Hamilton's books have erotic undertones, but this is toward the beginning of the series, before those undertones turned into overtones, sidewaystones, diagonaltones, and all those other tones that we can't discuss in polite society. At this point and through book six or seven, you can still call them action novels, rather than "action" novels, at which point you're just turning the pages thinking MY GOD, WHAT A HORNBALL THIS WOMAN IS.
Anyway, if you like the supernatural and action her...more
Anyway, if you like the supernatural and action her...more
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Druhé přečtení po téměř šesti letech a oficiálně jsem začala mít ráda Jean-Clauda.
This was a complete waste of time. The obscenely poor writing drove me crazy. If it hadn't been a library book, there were several occasions when I would have thrown it across the room. ("Bully...naw...dammit...goosebumps marched up my arms...")
Hamilton never took the time to set up the world we're reading about, or give any sort of motivation to the characters' choices/actions. This was confusing and annoying.
The lazy editing was incredibly distracting; I found at least four typos in the book...more
Hamilton never took the time to set up the world we're reading about, or give any sort of motivation to the characters' choices/actions. This was confusing and annoying.
The lazy editing was incredibly distracting; I found at least four typos in the book...more
If I read "naw" one more time, I'm gonna have to slap a bitch. That has to be, to me, the least intelligent-sounding word to come out of anyone's mouth--doubly so if you're answering your own rhetorical questions, Anita, as though the reader is too stupid to realize that no, the vampire probably won't let you go.
Anita's a stone cold bitch; in all three hundred pages I think the only real concern she had was for a character we barely met whose name I've forgotten. (In fact, this review had one st...more
Anita's a stone cold bitch; in all three hundred pages I think the only real concern she had was for a character we barely met whose name I've forgotten. (In fact, this review had one st...more
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This is a cult favorite in the genre of ummm...paranormal, vampire chick lit? Anyhow, I thought I'd give it a try, since I have heard from several people that Anita Blake is kick-ass (insert adjective of choice). I must admit I kind of liked the alternative St Louis (as I lived in our St Louis) for many years. The set up and such reminded me of the Jim Butcher novels, but with a female vampire-hunter, instead of a guy-wizard-P.I. (Prime line early on is "I don't date vampires. I kill them.") The...more
I would give this a 3.5 if could. It was a quick and easy read, I did find myself confused at one point about the characters...but that might be my fault since I read some after a few glasses of wine!!
Anita is an animator, that is, she can raise people from the dead, into zombies. She doesn't actually do much of that in this book, since she's asked by the master vampire of St. Louis to solve some vampire murders. She's also pretty well known in the vampire world as a vampire hunter, so that make...more
Anita is an animator, that is, she can raise people from the dead, into zombies. She doesn't actually do much of that in this book, since she's asked by the master vampire of St. Louis to solve some vampire murders. She's also pretty well known in the vampire world as a vampire hunter, so that make...more
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Oct 08, 2010
Ladiibbug
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
UF Fans
Recommended to Ladiibbug by:
Drei
#1 Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Reread - Finally! I've wanted to reread books 1-4 for years and FINALLY have begun!
The Anita Blake books rocked my world and were my first vampire reads ten years ago. I quit reading at book 5 or 6 due to LKH's increasing obsession with sex and violence.
This #1 was darker and more violent than I remember it being, but that's OK. The violence gave realism to the treachery and pure evilness and danger associated with Nickolaos, the Master Vampire.
It was GREAT to see J...more
Reread - Finally! I've wanted to reread books 1-4 for years and FINALLY have begun!
The Anita Blake books rocked my world and were my first vampire reads ten years ago. I quit reading at book 5 or 6 due to LKH's increasing obsession with sex and violence.
This #1 was darker and more violent than I remember it being, but that's OK. The violence gave realism to the treachery and pure evilness and danger associated with Nickolaos, the Master Vampire.
It was GREAT to see J...more
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I first read this book years ago, and have since gone on to enjoy most of the others in the series (the more recent metaphysical sex fest books excluded) so I was surprised at how lacking I found this story when I recently reread it.
- Very little background information and minimal physical descriptions provided for main characters, making them unmemorable and easy to confuse. That there are a ton of secondary characters doesn't help, either.
- Repetitive language. Flame throwers are messy and th...more
- Very little background information and minimal physical descriptions provided for main characters, making them unmemorable and easy to confuse. That there are a ton of secondary characters doesn't help, either.
- Repetitive language. Flame throwers are messy and th...more
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REVIEW:…
This is the first book out of nineteen in the Anita Blake, Vampire Slayer series. My first thought was that this book was something written like Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, but this book was actually written some years before Buffy even existed.
Anita is a really cool character when you get to know her. The really cool thing with her is that she’s really vulnerable and that’s what I like about her. It’s a bit difficult to set yourself in this story and it’s characters. When someone dies i...more
This is the first book out of nineteen in the Anita Blake, Vampire Slayer series. My first thought was that this book was something written like Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, but this book was actually written some years before Buffy even existed.
Anita is a really cool character when you get to know her. The really cool thing with her is that she’s really vulnerable and that’s what I like about her. It’s a bit difficult to set yourself in this story and it’s characters. When someone dies i...more
Guilty Pleasures is Book 1 of the prolonged ongoing saga that is the Anita Blake series. Enter Anita, a necromancer by night and a vampire hunter...by night. You can imagine she has her plate full, raising the dead and staking fanged baddies.
And speaking of which, we meet Nikolaos, a 1,000 year old vampire. She's the most powerful in the city all the while inhabiting a body of a 10-year-old. She's causing a few problems for Anita that leads her to become allies with other vampires. Who better t...more
And speaking of which, we meet Nikolaos, a 1,000 year old vampire. She's the most powerful in the city all the while inhabiting a body of a 10-year-old. She's causing a few problems for Anita that leads her to become allies with other vampires. Who better t...more
Dec 27, 2012
Linda Gail Walters
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
paranormal-romance
I feel like I have started on a long voyage with Anita Blake. There are currently 20 books in the series, several well over 500 pages, and with other thing to read and writing to be done, it will be a while before I get caught up. We have all of the Anita Blake books and my partner has already read them all.
I must admit that it took me longer to read this one than it usually does for a book of that size. Perhaps because I knew it was the start of a long series, I wanted to absorb every detail, e...more
I must admit that it took me longer to read this one than it usually does for a book of that size. Perhaps because I knew it was the start of a long series, I wanted to absorb every detail, e...more
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I had learned of the Anita Blake series in a very unorthodox manner. About 7 years ago my grandmother gave me the tenth book (in English), Narcissus in Chains, and I just read it in one sitting. I was sort of in shock, because it was the first time I read sexually explicit scenes, but I fell in love with the characters and the story, so when I discovered it was part of a series I wanted to get the other books right away.
None of the books had been launched in Brazil, and at the time I was only ab...more
None of the books had been launched in Brazil, and at the time I was only ab...more
Sep 04, 2007
Jordan
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
anyone who likes supernatural content
Shelves:
action-adventure,
alt-universe,
mystery,
magic,
series,
shapeshifters,
vampire,
laurell-k-hamilton,
religion
Not an intellectually difficult read, none of the books in the series are really, but it's highly entertaining (they all are). This is the first book in the series and introduces you to Anita as well as Jean-Claude. It sets the background for the rest of the series and introduces you to a world not all that different from ours, this one just happens to include vampires and werewolves and witches etc etc. Basically, it's a "what if vampires, werewolves, and all that sort were real and in public v...more
This book was engaging in the way one watches a crash in slow motion on the news. You can't look away. Anita Blake is not a nice woman, she's a scared woman. Her dialogue is frequently mean-spirited and more blunt than is probably wise. Then what do you expect of a woman who works with the dead? A likeable personality? There's a reason she avoids live people.
The plot, while barely making sense, barrels along dragging Anita into one desperate situation after another, sometimes stopping long enou...more
The plot, while barely making sense, barrels along dragging Anita into one desperate situation after another, sometimes stopping long enou...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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