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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780515134469
ISBN number: 0515134465
Label: Jove
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Page Count: 384
Printing Date: September 26, 2002
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When Anita Blake's boss at Animators, Ltd., informs her that she's expected to raise 300-year-old zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute, she's understandably annoyed. But as soon as she arrives in Branson, Missouri, to do the deed, the job gets more interesting. A psychotic sword-wielding vampire starts committing multiple murders in the area, and Anita must call on Jean-Claude, her powerful fanged suitor, for help. As always, Anita prevails over the undead, keeping Jean-Claude at arm's length, clearing the cemetery land of an ancient enchantment, and nailing the vampiric killer in one fell swoop.
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Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Her 9-to-5 turns into 24-7 when three Missouri teenagers are killed-slaughtered in a way she has never seen before.
Romantic thrills, erotic chills and the sexiest vampire in the business. (Jayne Ann Krentz)
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Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Her 9-to-5 turns into 24-7 when three Missouri teenagers are killed-slaughtered in a way she has never seen before.
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If you like to read about vampire slayers, there's none better than Anita Blake the main character!!!
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I really enjoyed the very first few chapters of the book. I liked the character of Larry, the idea of him being Anita's apprentice. Where the book started to take a nosedive was when Serephina and her cohorts joined the picture. There were too many plot threads that she tried to tie in. If the book had continued in the same vein as it started, it would have been at least a 3 1/2 maybe a 4 star review. Instead, it fizzled out.
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I enjoyed this book less than the previous four in the Anita Blake series. The beginning through the middle were especially tedious, leading me to put the book down many more times that normal. There are a number of reasons that may have contributed to that:
+ Maybe I'm getting tired of tolerating Laurell K. Hamilton's flaws. It was okay when she spent three pages rattling off useless detail about scenery. While J. R. R. Tolkien excels at this, LKH has no right. But it's excusable. However, it is not okay when she spends an entire page and a half describing Anita's wardrobe. In the second chapter. This ludicrous behavior is continued, as she describes the laughable, Halloween-esque wardrobes (read as: costumes) of Jean-Claude and Jason. Instead of creating the exotic effect she aims for, she instead degrades these once interesting characters into people that dress soft core porn actors. Thigh high leather boots. Please. Also, LKH's tendency to describe an area to the T reeks of her shoving research in our faces. Instead of coming off as well-researched, it comes off as very "look what I did, look what I did." When a writer researches a location, they are supposed to take a few distinctive areas and describe them. They are not supposed to turn a section of the book into a travel guide as LKH has been doing since Book Two.
+ It could be the characterization of Anita herself. Anita Blake has lost any redeemable qualities she had throughout the very first book in the series. She is nothing but hateful and purposely rude in this book. Not to mention her internal dialogue (this book is set in very first person). It just stinks to high heaven. I'm getting the impression that LKH regrets not making Anita from England, as she often has the character say things like "fancy" and "bloody" and "bloody hell." It screams "wanna be."
+ The writing is also of a lesser quality. Effective phrases are often repeated, such as when 'brain matter' is referred to as "thicker, wetter things." At first, three books ago, it was very effective. By now, when it is said four times in one book, it gets tedious. Also, if Anita rewards someone another "point" I am going to set this book on fire. Every time a character does something she approves of, Anita's internal dialogue says something along the lines of "(brownie) point for them." Enough is enough.
+ It could be Laurell K. Hamilton as a person. If you are a fan, avoid her blog at all costs. Her blogging, like her writing, is often boring, self-indulgent, and unedited for capitalization errors. If you're not reading a post complaining about the writing life, you're reading a post about how stupid the nay-sayers are (you should see her Anne Rice-like post from last summer). Perhaps my dislike of LKH as a person has forced me to open my eyes to her many writing flaws, which are--admittedly--not that hard to miss.
That being said, this book isn't all bad. It does get better about half-way through, and eventually gets to the point where it is as good as the very first four. The climax is very emotional, but again, LKH's writing in the end spoils it. The two-paged final chapter reads like an epilogue, forcing all of the many story arcs of this one book to end in a neat one and a quarter page. My main problem with this is that if LKH can spend an entire page babbling about how lacey Jean-Claude's shirt is, couldn't she at least have given us an extra page to satisfy the plot-lines?
5/10
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This is the fifth installment of the Anita Blake series, and just keeps getting better and better. I really didn't know what to expect from this book. But from beginning to end I was hooked. I finished this book in two days (didn't get much sleep from it). The plot is amazing and creative. Laurell K. Hamilton is constantly creating new twists in this series and I have yet to get tired of it. The best one I've read so far.
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If you see reviews for current Antia Blake books, you'll notice most people lament that the series is not what it once was. This book is from the time people are harking back to. #5 in the series it is the sort of adventure that inspired the devotion of readers.
Set in a St Louis that has vampires and werewolves and other nasties in it, Anita is the local execution for monsters that get out of control. Her day job, however, is an Animator who can raise the dead as a zombie. this is usually done for legal disputes or family squables -"Where did you put your will?" type stuff.
This book starts with Anita being called out to a construction site near Branson, Missouri where bulldozers on the site of a luxery hotel have exposed an unmarked grave yard. Anita is called in to see who the dead were, to find out who really has the right to the land.
Sound simple, right? Of course it never stays that way. Add to the mix of corporate greed, a vampire on the prowl who knew Anita's on again vampire boy friend and a local bar tender decended from faeries who wants everyone to stay the heck away from the property and things go down hill faster than life expectancy the guy who announces Barry Manilow will be the lead entertainer at a Hell's Angels convention.
The story wonderfully blends greed, horror, adventure and just a tiny bit of eroticism into a great read.
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