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Just as good as it was when I read it for the first time 11 years ago.
A friend first introduced me to Anita Blake and Laurell K Hamilton in 2000. From the first chapter of Guilty Pleasures I was hooked. Not just your typical vampire story but not your typical murder mystery either. A wonderful blend of both and characters that you love and love to hate. Sometimes it’s hard to tell who is the monster and who isn’t. I had the pleasure of meeting LKH and her husband, Jon, a few years ago at a book ...more
A friend first introduced me to Anita Blake and Laurell K Hamilton in 2000. From the first chapter of Guilty Pleasures I was hooked. Not just your typical vampire story but not your typical murder mystery either. A wonderful blend of both and characters that you love and love to hate. Sometimes it’s hard to tell who is the monster and who isn’t. I had the pleasure of meeting LKH and her husband, Jon, a few years ago at a book ...more
This book doesn't read like a first book in a series. I was reading it thinking "Did I pick up the wrong book?" I didn't worry about it at first because I read the series a long time ago and am now pulling the comic (which is a lot of fun by the way) and thought that I just remembered more than I thought I did. Nope. The story references characters like a second book in a series would - quick references to looks and a history already established. It was very strange.
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I really loved Laurell K. Hamilton's early Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series books but I did feel like she lost the thread a bit in the middle of the series. I am glad to say that it seems like she is focusing more on the story line and less on the sex of late which makes the books better in my opinion. I think Anita is a great character and Laurell K. Hamilton can write a great plot but her overly complicated sex scenes can somewhat take away from the book.
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It's kind of weird to start a series that you know will get super bad in like, ten books, but. I'm kind of intrigued?
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Anita is an necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law. Now someone's killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees to help figure out who and why.
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The first book in the Anita Blake series, it promised something new and exciting. Probably one of my top 5 Anita books.
May 22, 2011
Destiny
marked it as to-read
