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    <![CDATA[Incubus Dreams (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #12)]]>
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    <![CDATA[As <em>Incubus Dreams</em> opens, Anita Blake may be America's most powerful vampire hunter and necromancer. So it's no surprise that the Regional Preternatural Crime Investigation Team seeks her assistance when a St. Louis stripper is murdered and the evidence points to unusual serial killers: a group of seven vampires. It appears a master vampire has gone rogue--and may prove too powerful for Anita Blake, even if she can gain help from not only her vampire consort, Master of the City Jean-Claude, but from the wereleopard king Micah, her other lover, and the alpha werewolf Richard, her bitter ex-lover.<p>  It would be an exaggeration to say that Laurell K. Hamilton's <em>Incubus Dreams</em> is just one sex scene after another. This twelth novel in her bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series presents a wedding, a murder, and a lot of relationship angst before getting down and dirty on page 89; and the sex scenes pause on page 377 to let the mystery plot resume. The series deftly blends elements of alternate history, horror, romance, erotica, and mystery, but anyone reading <em>Incubus Dreams</em> for the murder plot is going to be frustrated. However, <em>Incubus Dreams</em> is a considerably stronger and more interesting book than its talky predecessor, <em>Cerulean Sins</em>, and fans will enjoy the many new developments in Anita's complicated love life. <em>--Cynthia Ward</em><p></p></p>]]>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I kept reading the books because I had loved the first 5 or 6 of them, at this point I was wondering why I still kept reading them - to tell the truth, I guess I keep hoping that there will be some further character growth, and that the series will return to its roots of an ass-kicking heroine who h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22785542">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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