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Aug 25, 2010

Manny rated it:

If I had to do this review in two words, it wouldn't be a challenge: Twilight Noir. Okay, it's historically inaccurate, since Stephenie Meyer stole the idea from Laurel K. Hamilton rather than vice versa, but apart from that it's close to the facts. We have the basic Twilight scenario: human woman is simultaneously in love with a vampire and a werewolf, but for bizarre reasons can't actually have sex with either of them. Instead of the infuriatingly wimpy Bella, though, we have tough-as-nails An More...

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May 11, 2011

BarkLessWagMore rated it:

This book begins where the previous left off so your best bet is to read these in order so you can figure out how these tangled relationships develop into the mess that becomes Anita’s love life. Anita, Animator of the Dead, is seriously dating Richard the werewolf and is beginning to realize the perils of dating a “monster”. Jean Claude her other would-be beau is sticking his nose in their business because he’s a jealous little vampire-man and hasn’t been able to woo Anita with his vampire ch More...

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Dec 31, 2011

Tilly rated it:

WARNING: This book is twisted and brilliant! Review contains certain details that are upsetting and some sexual reference is used. Thus .. the review will touch on a few details that are disgusting and unacceptable to sensitive and closed minds. If you are either of the above, please do not continue to read this review

I love this book! The Anita Blake series is AWESOME! Unfortunately, there are a few books in this series that just flat-out stink. The Lunatic Cafe is most defi More...

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Dec 29, 2009

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Nov 22, 2011

Myvampfiction rated it:

review by Ciara

*Warning: possible spoilers ahead.*

The Lunatic Café, the fourth book in Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, opens with Anita Blake talking with a client. His wife has gone missing, and he needs Anita’s help to find her. Why not go to the police, like most people? Well, his wife is a werewolf, and he doesn’t believe the police will be any good. Who better to find a werewolf than a werewolf’s girlfriend?

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Jan 25, 2010

Kati rated it:

I freely admit that I have problems with Hamilton's writing. You see, she has a great gift for tense plotting and engaging writing. But instead of utilizing her talents, she turns her books into ridiculous will-they-won't-they soaps. Basically, this book was all about Anita facing off Jean-Claude on the one hand and mulling over Richard on the other. And the back and forth of that quickly became more than annoying. The plot itself - the search for the killer - took what? 60 pages? Everything els More...

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Jan 22, 2009

Tonya rated it:

I think this was my favorite so far. Or maybe they are just getting better because I read them in order. I would like to see Anita give in to Richard a little but she really never does and that is a major part of her character, keeping her focus. Edward makes an appearance in every book so I wonder if anything romantic will happen between the two. Anita is always complaining that the men in her life perusing her are all monsters so what gives.

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Nov 15, 2011

David added it

Being the 4th book in the serious, the main focus has not shifted to sex yet and we are still shown plenty of violence and gore. Hamilton has an amazing talent for writing engaging text that allow you to be absorbed into the story. Although sometimes I find Hamilton's writing to be cliche at times, and somewhat predictable she does stray from the normal when it comes to the hero, Anita. The hero is someone who is actually frustrating and unpredictable, that it keeps people wanted to see what she More...

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Oct 29, 2011

NicNacNoodle rated it:

Well, it's about time! I have battled with this series from the start, it was just so not what I had expected. I read the first two books out of curiosity and because the Anita Blake series had garnered such high praise, but was left dumbfounded. The third, I even stopped reading halfway through, it just was not doing it for me, but I hate not completing a mission, so I came back to it, after re-reading the entire Cassie Palmer series, and managed to fall a little further into the world created More...

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Sep 13, 2011

Laura rated it:

I liked this. It was a good Anita Blake book and the more I read them and the more I understand of her world the more interesting it gets. Anita is a complicated character and I like her for her old fashioned views on love and her crazy views on life. She's a pretty cool kick-ass heroine but jeez does she get a hard time of it. I gave up counting how many times she got attacked in this book.

I thought the plot was good but at the same time I thought there was a hell of a lot of thing More...

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Aug 18, 2011

Emma rated it:

This latest instalment of the Anita Blake vampire hunter series was an odd one... I think I liked it the least of all 4 that I have read so far.

I found the mystery part was a bit lacking, it became a filler in between the romance/love triangle issues. I feel it needed more than the last 20 pages to round up what was actually quite a good idea for a story. It also required no sleuthing, it was a bit of a cookie cutter ending where everything fell into place a bit too neatly just so th More...

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Apr 22, 2011

Linda rated it:

Another on one of my Fang Fictions - book 3 or 4 on the Anita Blake series; she's growing on me and I do love my vamp Jean-Claude.

This book is a (3), I enjoyed it and there is a love triangle of sorts between Richard , her school teacher boyfriend werewolf and Jean-Claude, Master Vampire and Anita starting. She's engaged of sorts to Richard but having second thoughts b/c she's realizing he's as much a monster as J-C is but in a different way, the beast within and she values her indep More...

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Jan 24, 2011

Ana rated it:

Ack! So predictable! Even the twists were predictable! Except maybe the last one, though I thought it was something like that. And jeez, let the girl sleep for once!

Aside from knowing most of the plot in the first few chapters, I am enjoying the Anita Blake series. I just wish that either the protagonists would recognize things earlier and actually THINK about things for a moment before rushing headlong into danger for once. I suppose a big part of that is the eternally sleep-d More...

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Jan 11, 2011

Ithlilian rated it:

I enjoyed this book a little more than the last one due to the interesting characters involved. The Jean Claude, Richard, and Anita triangle is interesting, and the weres are feisty and exciting. The actually mystery in this book is about a chewed up corpse found in the woods around some good ol boys. That's about all we hear about it until the last 20 pages of the book. Anita focuses some of her attention in this book to the 8 were disappearances, investigating a missing person for a client, an More...

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Sep 28, 2010

Mary Grace rated it:

As I said in the first three reviews, Laurell K. Hamilton creates a new world of supernatural that keeps everybody hooked and enthrall new reader to picking a book and reading the series. I never get tired or bored of reading this series and I just keep on wanting more. This story continues with Anita's adventure as Executioner and a part of the RIPIT.

What I also love about this story is the continuing struggle in the love department as Jean Claude and Richard fights over Anita's af More...

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Jul 12, 2009

Megan rated it:

A Date-off?!?! Seriously? Oh, what has become of you John Taylor...er, uh, Jean-Claude...
Hamilton tries to introduce a love triangle. Tries. It ends up being a dating competition, and reminds me of a poorly written sitcom. Not what I would expect from a couple of super powerful, super sexy men. Anita was an even bigger disappointment, relationship wise. We learn that she is such a badass who doesn’t date because of a bad relationship. ONE bad relationship. Big deal. Who hasn’t had their More...

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Feb 24, 2011

Amanda rated it:

I keep reading these books and the further I get, the more I just struggle to continue. This series was highly recommended from some friends. I thought, what the heck and started reading. The story lines are OK, the love interest are alright, but the characters drive me batty. They make it really hard for me to connect and engage in the story.

Anita is this tough as nails chick who doesn't like help, ask for help, or respect you if you offer her help. She is hard core all the way. I More...

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Jan 31, 2010

Bookworms rated it:

I believe this itself from this tape the readers in two camps split. Richard fans and the Jean-Claude fans. I belong unambiguously to the Jean-Claude fans, this vampire is simply witty and at the same time one seems to feel his immense power. He has an as mad and dangerous life like Anita. However, Richard tries to go for all disputes from the way and works at Anitas side which hesitates less and less with the homicide of being, something is absent on the place.

The story in itself h More...

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Dec 04, 2008

Jordan rated it:

One of my first book I read that starting me reading Vampire books. I remember being blown away by the female character in this book, I had never read anything like her before. Also the idea of having a female character that is truly in love with two completely different men, and she is allowed to have both of them! Yeah we need more books like this.
This is really a great series, at least the first 11 books are great. Way better than anything written by Stephanie Meyer. HA!

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Apr 09, 2011

Talyn rated it:

Again, I think Laurell desperately needs to take some writing/grammar classes because reading this book even I found a boatload of errors. It does kind of agitate me that she builds EVERYTHING up SO MUCH and then resolves the entire mystery/case in one to two fast paced chapters where the enemy fumbles around not wanting to put a bullet between her eyes, even though more than half the time she is literally ASKING them to do so. The plot is kind of like a box full of magnets posing as rocks, at f More...

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Apr 22, 2010

Gardavson rated it:

Ah Anita. Anita Anita Anita. Things progress in Anita's relationship with Richard. The bad thing is that 2 or 3 months of dating pass between the last book and the opening of this book. We missed the emergence of their relationship. Personally, I think it would have developed some of Anita's human character better if we'd been a part of some of it. But now Richard proposes. And shortly afterwards, Anita is faced with some of the ugly side of Richard's beast, leaving her unsure of their relations More...

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Feb 07, 2010

Jade rated it:

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Feb 23, 2011

Brandi rated it:

Book 3 of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels, Lunatic Cafe is my favorite yet. So this is a good sign. I'm enjoying the books more and more as we go....

In this one, Anita is once again on the search of a murderer. It began as a missing persons case, but you knew that wouldn't be the case after very long. I enjoyed delving deeper into the shapeshifter world and meeting new characters. Understanding Richard more made me like him more than I did in the second book. Still don't More...

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Jan 27, 2010

Brandi rated it:

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Nov 24, 2010

Mailis rated it:

You cant go wrong with a vampire-girl-werewolf love triangle, do you? It was like Twilight, the hardcore version...no, i´m kidding...it wasn't...still it has a lot of potential for hotness, with the vamp-werewolf different types of sexual tension tendencies...while our vamp hero, if you can call a murdering blood loving psychopath who has had centuries of fun with physical and mind torture games, is mainly at least on the surface cool and collected intelligent being, our werewolfie is impulsive More...

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Jan 26, 2010

Sabrina rated it:

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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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Dec 14, 2010

Desert Rose rated it:

This is the forth book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series.
Anita's got a new client asking her to look for his missing wife, he can't go to the cops because she is a werewolf and owns a butcher shop. If that is revealed she could loose her business.
So since anita is not an investigator she refers him to her friend Ronnie.

Anita soon discovers that Peggy is not to only lycanthrope missing, but seven others are too and no clue as to where they could be.

She is also More...

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Jan 10, 2010

Jo rated it:

I spent the first three books drudging through them, struggling for the end. Why? Because at the time I had an absolute hatred for first-person novels. Now I can tolerate them a bit more, so I decided to dive back into this series.

This book was overall good. It had an excellent interaction between characters and a really good plot. It fell short when it came to character resolution, though. We're shoved through pages of Anita repeating the same thoughts to herself concerning her and More...

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Jan 21, 2012

Seth rated it:

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