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From Publishers Weekly
Anita Blake, vampire hunter, is back in this exciting and sexy installment of the bestselling paranormal series. Facing zombies is part of Blake's job description as a necromancer, but rarely does she deal with the flesh-eating kind made popular by Hollywood movies. All that changes when Blake accompanies her lover, Micah, to his father's potential deathbed in Colorado; there she faces a kind of zombie she's never seen before: they're fast, cunning, contagious, and hungry for humans. While it occasionally gets bogged down by dialogue, overall Hamilton's latest is a meticulously plotted story featuring fantastically creepy action mixed with flirtatious sex scenes, making it the perfectly addictive read. Her take on zombies is invigorating—even for the purest of horror fans—it's no wonder readers keep coming back for more. . Hamilton also manages to embed contemporary issues in with the fast-pace action,; addressing sexism, homophobia, religious fundamentalism, and racism from fresh and unusual perspectives. (July)
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From Booklist
In the twenty-second volume of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels, Hamilton keeps the horror churning while returning to the emphasis on relationships that made her the original queen of paranormal romance. A sheriff in Colorado, the estranged father of her beloved Micah (a were-leopard and leader of the Coalition), is dying from a zombie bite. The story seems unbelievable, but Anita, in her role as a U.S. marshal in the preternatural branch, ends up going after a new type of fast zombie with a bite that causes victims to start rotting from the outside in. These zombies also have the ability to keep on going even when shot to pieces. Heck, they can even reassemble themselves when cut up like confetti. Edward, another marshal, turns up, wondering why he wasn’t invited to the zombie apocalypse. BDSM and group sex are part of the story since Anita’s powers are fed by it. It looks like Anita, her were-animal lovers, and the vampire king of St. Louis are taking their relationships to the next level in this cross-genre tale. --Diana Tixier Herald
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More About the Author
Laurell K. Hamilton is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two series that mix mystery, fantasy, magic, horror and romance. Her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels from Berkley Books began with GUILTY PLEASURES (now a hugely successful graphic novel from Marvel - the first sexy paranormal comic ever!) and continues with the SKIN TRADE, number seventeen in the series, in which Anita's complex personal and professional relationships with a master vampire and an alpha werewolf continue to evolve. There are now more than 6 million copies of Anita in print worldwide, in 16 languages. Hamilton's Ballantine series features Fey princess and private investigator, Merry Gentry and there are now six novels exceeding one million copies in print. Divine Misdemeanors, the eighth in the series will debut Octobe 29, 2009. She lives in St. Louis County Missouri with her husband Jonathon Green, daughter, one pug dog and one boxer/pug dog.
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737 of 785 people found the following review helpful
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K. Wilkins
on July 10, 2013
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I am one of those people who has continued to buy LKH's books--in hardcover--despite everything. I liked the first few Anita Blake books, but I never thought they were The Best Series Ever. Still, they were a light and fluffy diversion with some darker elements that made the author's voice unique. I always thought Anita was kind of annoying, but originally it was because she was so narrow-minded and pigheaded. Her constant snarky sarcasm and rudeness bothered me too, and adolescent catchphrases such as "Bully for me/you" irritated the heck out of me. But....but....something kept me reading. Once I caught up to the series around Incubus Dreams, I looked forward to a new installment coming out every year.
Incubus Dreams, to me, is where the series jumped the track. I was so confused and disheartened that I went on to Amazon and looked at the reviews wondering: Is it just me? What the heck did I just read? Was this author doing some serious drugs when she wrote this, or does she just not have an editor?
And yet...I kept reading. I've heard another ex-fan mention Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a joking way in reference to continuing to read these books, and I kind of identified with her. I've spent all this time, and money, investing in this series and these characters that I simply felt I could not stop here...or here...or here. I have enough discretionary income to waste $20 a year to keep a collection up-to-date on my bookshelves.
Until now.
I am one of those readers about whom other ex-fans state, "Laurell is going to lose even her die-hard fans if she continues with this garbage." I was one of the battle-hardened veterans of the series, one of the hangers-on who thought I would stick it through until the end.
Until now.Read more ›
Incubus Dreams, to me, is where the series jumped the track. I was so confused and disheartened that I went on to Amazon and looked at the reviews wondering: Is it just me? What the heck did I just read? Was this author doing some serious drugs when she wrote this, or does she just not have an editor?
And yet...I kept reading. I've heard another ex-fan mention Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a joking way in reference to continuing to read these books, and I kind of identified with her. I've spent all this time, and money, investing in this series and these characters that I simply felt I could not stop here...or here...or here. I have enough discretionary income to waste $20 a year to keep a collection up-to-date on my bookshelves.
Until now.
I am one of those readers about whom other ex-fans state, "Laurell is going to lose even her die-hard fans if she continues with this garbage." I was one of the battle-hardened veterans of the series, one of the hangers-on who thought I would stick it through until the end.
Until now.Read more ›
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424 of 472 people found the following review helpful
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on July 3, 2013
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I started reading these because of my wife, who enjoyed the first 4 books and laughed her way through the rest of them, until this one.
So the good:
-This book actually does have a plot.
-Zombies.
-Less than half of the book was Anita enjoying her collection of men.
-There were not pages and pages of clothing and hair descriptions.
-Edward
The bad:
-For the first 200 or so pages, any line Anita said had at least a paragraph of introspection or plot exposition to explain why she said it.
-If you cut out the very redundant descriptors, the book would probably be 100 pages shorter. We get that Nathaniel has lavender eyes. It's still as silly as the first time and doesn't become less silly after the 15th time you mention it in a single book. We also understand that a lot of these men are very tall. Also, you don't need to remind all your readers every couple of pages that someone is a sociopath.
-Serious inaccuracies that could have been prevented with just a little bit of research.
The worst:
-I'm a guy, and I was insulted by the gender stereotyping in this book. This was what caused my wife to close the book halfway through and say "I'm DONE". If this were written by a man, a lot of women would be very offended by the constant sexism e.g. "fights like a girl" or "I screamed like (fill in the blank) girl" or using female body parts as insults. It was bad enough when Anita was just trying to prove she was a really hot woman who was really just one of the guys, but this book is full of phrasing that is incredibly misogynistic. It also completely objectifies men.
The absolute worst:
-After the point my wife gave up, there was one of those scenes.Read more ›
So the good:
-This book actually does have a plot.
-Zombies.
-Less than half of the book was Anita enjoying her collection of men.
-There were not pages and pages of clothing and hair descriptions.
-Edward
The bad:
-For the first 200 or so pages, any line Anita said had at least a paragraph of introspection or plot exposition to explain why she said it.
-If you cut out the very redundant descriptors, the book would probably be 100 pages shorter. We get that Nathaniel has lavender eyes. It's still as silly as the first time and doesn't become less silly after the 15th time you mention it in a single book. We also understand that a lot of these men are very tall. Also, you don't need to remind all your readers every couple of pages that someone is a sociopath.
-Serious inaccuracies that could have been prevented with just a little bit of research.
The worst:
-I'm a guy, and I was insulted by the gender stereotyping in this book. This was what caused my wife to close the book halfway through and say "I'm DONE". If this were written by a man, a lot of women would be very offended by the constant sexism e.g. "fights like a girl" or "I screamed like (fill in the blank) girl" or using female body parts as insults. It was bad enough when Anita was just trying to prove she was a really hot woman who was really just one of the guys, but this book is full of phrasing that is incredibly misogynistic. It also completely objectifies men.
The absolute worst:
-After the point my wife gave up, there was one of those scenes.Read more ›
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347 of 392 people found the following review helpful
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Dianne E. Socci-Tetro
TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on July 3, 2013
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More of a rant than a review I'm afraid.
Am I the only one who notices that this series is turning into the Merry Gentry series? Perhaps Laurell should have continued with that series if she wanted to write badly written, non-erotic, erotica? Am I the only one that notices that Anita is also turning into a looks obsessed girly girl? What happened to the black jeans and Nikes? Why do we have to know that she is wearing a thigh holster under her short little skirt and pretty colored jacket? Because, let's admit it - We all know how it is just so darn easy to kick zombie, shape-shifter and vampire butt when wearing a mini skirt, jacket and high heels now don't we? Why do we put up with these sorts of details? Was it more important to be thinking about hair length than to think about how to tell Micah horrible news about his family? When the heck did Anita get triple-E cup breasts? And, how did she never once fall over from the weight of them on her tiny little slim figure?
------------->SPOILERISH<---------------------
This book started off with a bang - with a new disease that started out on the East Coast making its way westward and lodging itself firmly in Anita's world. You need to read (in the Kindle Edition) nearly 40 percent of the book before anything besides relationship angst and some peeing contest hi-jinks with the other cops, happen. That is just plan sad. However, what action there is is quite exciting, except that Anita makes some bone-headed moves. But then again, she is in a sort of "heat' and Nathaniel is in his full form , thus tempting her beyond the ability to stay standing - so maybe that explains the fact that she led everyone into a dangerous situation.Read more ›
Am I the only one who notices that this series is turning into the Merry Gentry series? Perhaps Laurell should have continued with that series if she wanted to write badly written, non-erotic, erotica? Am I the only one that notices that Anita is also turning into a looks obsessed girly girl? What happened to the black jeans and Nikes? Why do we have to know that she is wearing a thigh holster under her short little skirt and pretty colored jacket? Because, let's admit it - We all know how it is just so darn easy to kick zombie, shape-shifter and vampire butt when wearing a mini skirt, jacket and high heels now don't we? Why do we put up with these sorts of details? Was it more important to be thinking about hair length than to think about how to tell Micah horrible news about his family? When the heck did Anita get triple-E cup breasts? And, how did she never once fall over from the weight of them on her tiny little slim figure?
------------->SPOILERISH<---------------------
This book started off with a bang - with a new disease that started out on the East Coast making its way westward and lodging itself firmly in Anita's world. You need to read (in the Kindle Edition) nearly 40 percent of the book before anything besides relationship angst and some peeing contest hi-jinks with the other cops, happen. That is just plan sad. However, what action there is is quite exciting, except that Anita makes some bone-headed moves. But then again, she is in a sort of "heat' and Nathaniel is in his full form , thus tempting her beyond the ability to stay standing - so maybe that explains the fact that she led everyone into a dangerous situation.Read more ›
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