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Jul 31, 2011

The Holy Terror rated it:

I want to start off by saying that this wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. And it definitely wasn't as bad as it could have been. I had the lowest of hopes for this one after reading Divine Misdemeanors (★) last year so maybe that's why I liked Flirt more. Trust me though, it was nowhere near perfect and was also still far away from her earlier books in the series. I'm slightly wary though, could this be a sign of things to come? Will the Anita books continue to get better? I'm afraid to th More...

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Sep 10, 2010

Wealhtheow rated it:

Why did I do this to myself? Why return to Anita Blake, when all she does is annoy and frustrate me?

Because I am a fool.

But as foolish as I am, at least I didn't write a novel in which all the male characters tell Anita how hot and desirable and wonderful she is for an entire chapter. Is there a plot? Sure, but it's solved in about two minutes. Truthfully, there are so many problems with this story that it’s hard to know what to complain about most.

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Aug 10, 2011

Simone rated it:

What a self-indulgent bit of tripe. The conceit for this book is that the plot stems from a thoroughly uninteresting and commonplace thing that actually happened (gasp!) to Hamilton and a few of her friends. The only amazing thing about it is that Hamilton and her friends seem to have blown the incident out of all proportion, into some sort of proof of their inherently awesome artistic sexiness AND something worthy of creating "art" around. The result is little more than a boring an More...

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Jan 26, 2012

Tilly rated it:

Flirt is a short book. I think it could have fit nicely into another book with more exciting scenes, but I’m not the author I feel that it was a bit rushed, but other than that, not too many “complaints” from me. Hell, I think out of all the books in this series .. I can count the number of complaints on one hand

Flirt. Anita is kidnapped and taken from her sweeties that are being watched by snipers. A new Rex, a stranger and his pride, take her away from her loved ones and force More...

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Apr 30, 2010

Kevin rated it:

Does anyone else get the feeling that if Anita, or Merry, for that matter, decided to do something as quotidian and mundane as changing her brand of toothpaste, it would provoke a long, drawn-out, tortuous discussion/debate/conversation (with all her friends, lovers and enemies, and random passersby) about her motivations for the brand change, the inevitable or potential repercussions of the brand change, how her unexpected brand-changing decision upsets and discommodes said lovers, friends and More...

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Feb 06, 2010

Sarah ~Sehrenity~ rated it:

While I did like this book, I think of it more as filler than an actual entry into the Anita Blake series. It's a lot like Micah was--focusing on one story and no subplot. I'm curious to see if any of the events from this story make it into the next full-length Anita book.

For those hoping to see more of Anita's necromancy, you will see that here. I don't want to say more just yet, but there were a couple of plot points involving Anita's character development that disappointed me.
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Mar 05, 2010

Natasha rated it:

Flirt is the 18th installment in the Anita Blake series. It's not a full novel like her usual's, it's about the size of her novel MICAH. (approx. 200 pages). No matter, I was excited to get another Anita dose. The wait for each novel is a year(like most) and it's always a killer.

This time around, the usual characters who are in this story are Micah, Nathaniel, Jason and of course, Anita. And when her lovers are threatened, Anita will go through anything to save them...

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Mar 11, 2011

Rebecca rated it:

This was another one of LKH's much shorter novels, but I have to say, with Hamilton, I don't seem to notice the length. Long, short; they usually have the right amount of action needed for it not to feel rushed or too drawn-out. I had really missed the boys, since they weren't in the latest book, and loved that they got a bigger part of the series. I even started liking Nicky somewhere there in the middle of it all. The only person I felt missing was Jean-Claude, so I'm hoping he'll have a bigge More...

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Jun 02, 2011

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Jul 08, 2010

Minh rated it:

It's not to say that I hated this book, it was more along the lines of what was the point of it all?

Anita has yet another adoring gorgeous man hanging off her arms and we've established yet again that her powers are awesome even without her men. What happened to the good old days of blood and gore.

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Aug 20, 2011

Aliyyah rated it:

Once I found out this would be a short story, rather than a full book, I thought I wouldn't read it, but I was curious to find out why Laurell K. Hamilton would name an Anita "Bloody Guts and Sex" Blake book with the fluffy title "Flirt". So I got it at my library and now I understand. Basically this book is like "Micah" in that it was an idea that Laurell (or her publishers) couldn't let go of; a sort of "surprise-look-what-we-did" kind of thing. I won't More...

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Oct 03, 2011

Laura rated it:

I spent part of my day conferencing with my students about their reading logs. One student was surprised to learn that Breaking Dawn could be counted as science fiction, fantasy, or romance; she was even more surprised when she decided that it fit in best under gothic/horror. I experienced the same feeling today as I read Flirt. I have it listed under fantasy, science fiction, and urban fantasy. I think I need to add gothic/horror to my list of genres.

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Sep 25, 2011

Mary Grace rated it:

To start with, I agree with everybody that this should not be considered a novel but a novella. It's too short to be priced as it is. I won't go on and talk about the book as I always do because I think that people who haven't read the series should be given the chance to either like it or not based on their preference. Lately the series lost a lot of it's followers because of how the series lost it's "spark" so I'll leave it to you to decide what you think about the books.

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Sep 16, 2011

Constance rated it:

This was another book sort of like Micah. It had very few of the main characters for most of the book and it was very short, almost like a filler book. I do like watching the turn Anita seems to be taking. One thing that has held my interest in this series even though I don't really like it very much is that it is interesting to see the character development in Anita as she really does seem to be blurring the line between human and monster. Not just in abilities, though she does seem to pull More...

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Jul 03, 2011

Troy rated it:

This was a short novella style book by Hamilton. I liked much better than some of her recent novels. Slow to build but a lot of punch. Finally Anita gets back to her roots as an animator and she uses her power for bad to create a justified ending....or balance.

In the beginning we see some very rich people try to force Anita to give up on her principles for money. She holds on to her values dearly and refuses to help them raise some one for a "bad" reason. Then she is k More...

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Jun 02, 2011

Charity rated it:

I read The first Anita Blake novel about a year ago then about 3 months ago I bought the whole series (except #20 obviously) on e-bay. I have been marathon reading the series, but the last several books I had to take a break and read another book in between. The first several books were so good, then it really started getting far fetched when she started collecting men. Now it just seems like her men are constantly complementing her. Don't get me wrong I love the Erotic parts, and I don't know i More...

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May 22, 2011

Netanya rated it:

Save me from a heroine who is never wrong and copied and pasted paragraphs of description and dialogue.

Anita Blake is obviously the epitome of everything Ms. Hamilton would like to be, surrounded by ethereal men of all shapes and sizes, all of whom believe she is the most amazing thing since sliced bread and of course add to this fact that everyone around her underestimates her constantly, and then eventually either dies or runs away or falls hopelessly in love with her (in the space More...

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May 08, 2011

Liath rated it:

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Jan 12, 2011

Ithlilian rated it:

I remember a time when I loved Anita Blake novels. I didn't start reading at book one, I started reading at book 11 or so, at a time when most people were already not enjoying the books. I liked them because I like the characters and I wanted to know what would happen to them all. I used to be able to read about the characters talking to each other, eating, going shopping, or doing whatever boring stuff they do, but now I just can't do it any more. Maybe I matured as a reader, or maybe I've just More...

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Dec 30, 2010

Karissa rated it:

I got this book from the library to read (as I have done with all recent Hamilton books). I am glad I did because this book was mostly so-so. I definitely wouldn't shell out money for a hardcover for this. It is very short (took maybe 2 hours to read) and doesn't advance the story much.

Anita is actually working again in this book, I know that's a shocker. She has two clients in a row that want their spouses raised for different reasons, both of which are wrong. She refuses to do either More...

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Dec 24, 2010

~ames~ rated it:

Flirt was a surprise Anita book similar to Micah, shorter in length, with a focus on Anita's relationships, not the broader supernatural community. Also, there's a return to Anita's necromancer roots, which was nice.

So what's up is there are two potential clients who want Anita to raise their dead spouse for all the wrong reasons. Anita turns both down and after the second client leaves, she goes out to lunch with Nathaniel, Micah and Jason. And Nathaniel and Anita get their flirt on.. More...

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Dec 20, 2010

Cathy rated it:

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Oct 28, 2010

Chibineko rated it:

As someone who has read all of LKH's books to date, I can say that I have been disappointed somewhat often in the last few books in the series. However, this is the first book she's released so far that I've been disappointed in not because of her writing, but because of one simple thing: THE PRICE.

This book is a short story/novella that begins with Anita getting a call from two different bereaved spouses who want Anita to raise their significant others from the grave. Both have very More...

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Aug 31, 2010

Jennifer rated it:

While this certainly wasn't my favorite Anita Blake story, I did enjoy it. This was a quick read, and not just because the story was a page turner. The book is shorter than most of Ms. Hamilton's other work - too long to be considered a novella but definitely shorter than most of her other novels.

The story was much more narrowly focused and did not include many of the characters regularly present in other Anita Blake stories, but I didn't mind that too much as we did meet some new f More...

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Aug 07, 2010

Marian rated it:

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Jun 12, 2010

Harmonybites rated it:

I should say up front so you can evaluate my review that I greatly enjoyed the first 8 or so of the Anita Blake books up to around Obsidian Butterfly. I'm one of those that believe the series badly went wrong with the ardeur with it's have sex or die imperative and books filled with so many chapters of sex scenes, that if you took them out, you wouldn't have wordage for a short novella. I have been able to at least read and finish the prior books though, even if with decreasing enjoyment--this i More...

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May 05, 2010

Jennifer rated it:

I was going to skip this one altogether until I read a review stating that in this book, Anita was baaaaaaaaacccccccccccckkkkkkkk! And doing things! (Meaning she was on her two feet walking around and using her powers to raise the dead and kill bad guys, not that she was flat on her back doing things.) YAY!

It wasn’t a bad book. A plus was that it was short and about as long as the plot. Hurray! Short books with short plots are a good thing. Though reading it, I had to wonder if H More...

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Apr 30, 2010

Hilda rated it:

I felt his power, his beast, his essence, his everything offered up in that moment, and the darkest of thoughts came to me. That I could take all he had and leave him dead
underneath me in one massive feeding. I fought the urge, because killing him wouldn’t help me save the others. Then a thought, not so dark, came—that he could be ours.

Ours not just for this moment but for as long as we wanted to keep him. The ardeur had accidentally bound men to me before, but I’d never done i More...

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Apr 14, 2010

T. rated it:

Reading the introduction and afterthought of Laurell K’s recent novella we are informed that this piece was created as a cure for writer’s block during the creation of Divine Misdemeanours (from the Merry Gentry series), much the same as her other novella, (or novelette or whatever) Micah.

So don’t expect too much from this short story from the Anita Blake series. Again similar to Micah the story involves Anita being drawn into taking a dodgy animation case, one sex scene and a fairly More...

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Apr 11, 2010

Heather rated it:

A recent convert to the Anita Blake series, I've been marathon reading all of the books for the past month or so. For the most part, I really enjoyed the journey, and as with any series liked some books better than others. The story has been fast-paced, dangerous, and the characters compelling, but somewhere with Flirt, Hamilton took a wrong turn. The story felt contrived, and worse, pointless. There are basically three plot ends that I've been waiting for Hamilton to tie up (1. Edward getting m More...

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