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This was TERRIBLE. Terrible!!! Why are you here book??? Why do you exist?? Why do you suck SO MUCH??? Ugh!! I was listening to this while walking to work in the morning, and I’m pretty sure I was waking up whole neighborhoods with my loud, “UGGGGHHHHHHH”s because I could not refrain from reacting to what a bitch this book is. This book is such a little bitch. It is not SO bad to start out with, just your normal Anita Blake bitchiness, like, “girls shouldn’t wear pink; girls shouldn’t shop; girls...
I like these books. They are fun and entertaining. I like the MC, Anita. There certainly are character traits that annoy me about her, but they aren't deal breakers. I can't ever take this type of urban fantasy seriously. But with that said, the author has a way with words in her descriptive strokes. Sometimes it has me rolling my eyes, but mostly she does a great job of taking descriptions and adding layers to them. That is what I like the most. This is the 3rd book I've read by her and I have
I forgot how much I loved the beginning of this series. More action and blood and guts and -JEAN-CLAUDE.
After reading Guilty Pleasures and falling hook, line, and sinker into the Anita Blake world, I eagerly rushed forward to devour the second offering. The Laughing Corpse digs deeper into Blake’s world, shows off more of Jean-Claude, Ronnie, and the polices characters.As always, Anita is surrounded by problems with no immediate, easy solution in sight. Emphasis isn’t placed heavily on her vampire slaying, more with her job as an animator. The suspense and story is strong from the beginning; actio...
There was something about Hamilton's first, then second book that irritated the hell out of me, but I couldn't quite figure it out. Then one day I saw a picture of her on the book and I understood what it was. It annoys me when authors make themselves the hero/ine of their books, and then just change the name and the environment to make it fantasy fiction. But even more so when you must keep reading about how powerful, and how unconsciously sexy, and how tough that character is (*why* is she try...
Hot Damn!! I can't get enough of Anita Blake!! I think I love her...But she just pissed off The Voodoo Priestes!!Anita takes a licking and turns around and dishes out a can of whoop ass!! She's the badass of all badasses!! Her snarky sarcastic mouth has made a few enemies. And it seams everyone is out to kill her. Where's that sexy Jean-Claude when a hero is needed? Hiding in the shadows watching Anita kick ass!!!"Arise from your graves all dead within sound of my call. Arise and serve me!""I am...
I have read all of the Anita Blake series and The Laughing Corpse is the second book in the series. Again it is really great entertainment. I enjoy all the characters and the plot. Anita comes into more powers by being Jean Claude's human servant so you get to see that and also her zombie-raising skills come into play. The second book is definitely one of the good ones.
Anita got an offer to raise an ancient dead body as a zombie. The corpse is so old the only sacrifice sufficient to the occasion is a human one. Anita refused an got plenty of troubles as a result. At the same time something undead kept killing people wholesale and Anita, being a part of police Spook Squad had to find culprit and lay it to final rest as well as get the creature's creator. During her investigation she managed to piss off a powerful voodoo priestess and got plenty of troubles as a...
This book took my by surprise! I have read it twice now, and there are parts that are still heart-wrenching. In the second book of the Anita Blake series, The Laughing Corpse rips you from reality and tosses you unexpectedly into a world of voodoo, betrayal and forced submission. Following the first book, this begins centered around Anita Blake and her job as an animator as well as the consulting work she does for the paranormal police division that investigates homocides that are obviously per...
This one aged a bit worse than the first book in the series (from the slurs, to the framing of sex work and beyond) and Anita ist still very much a judgmental asshole. But, that climax, her powers, yes please. The sexual tension is also getting to me so I guess I am all in now.
If I ever meet a Voodoo Priest I think I would faint or run probably run. This Priestess is freaking NUTS! Ok so some of the gross crime scenes freaked me out but the one where they made a bet to see who would get sick first was the grossest. We learn just how powerful Anita is, I am loving this part and her humor I think a lot of people “think” they know how powerful she is but they don’t know and I kind of think she doesn’t even know. The ending is interesting, to say the least. I enjoyed Kimb...
”Your eyes are the clearest mirror I have ever seen, ma petite. Whenever I begin to pretend to myself. Whenever I have delusions of life. I have only to look into your face and see the truth.”What did he expect me to say? Sorry, I’ll try to ignore the fact that you’re a vampire. “So why keep me around?” I asked.“Perhaps if Nikolaos had had such a mirror, she would not have been such a monster.”It’s been quite a while I read the first book of this series and I’m glad that I remembered to pick up
What a rush!!!I'm officially part of the Anita Blake fan club. I would love to see this on TV (it would be terribly gory, even worse that The Walking Dead, I'd have to skip those parts, I have a weak stomach).Anita Blake is once again in trouble, this time she has to deal with some kind of meat-eating zombie, she doesn't really know what it is, and she fears it may be the worst thing she will ever have to catch. This monster ate a family of three members, leaving only blood splattered everywhere...
Doing a re-read after years away from the series, and after quitting the series about 10 books in. Interested to see if I want to keep going this time, now that I know that things fall apart a little romance-wise later on, rather than going in with hopes of happy endings!
Caution: here be potty words! ;)Anita Blake books are always fun reads for me. I don't have to do any heavy thinking. I can just sit back and enjoy the ride. These books were written in the early '90s and I really enjoy reading about Anita's pager and how every time it goes off she has to race to find a pay phone! If that isn't enough, she actually wears a fanny pack in this book. How can you not love that?I love Anita because she is so fucking kick ass! She knows her weapons, can kill things th...
“I could teach you so much, Anita, so very much.” - Señora Salvador 3rd Re-listen: Guaranteed entertainment.2nd Re-listen: The ending gives me goosebumps, I listened to it twice!Another bad ass Anita Blake story. A mad flesh eating zombie is ravaging perfectly good suburbanites during the summer heatwave. Anita must work with the police to find out who is driving the zombie and for what possible motive. Some of my casting:The ending was EPIC. “I am a necromancer. The dead are my specialty.”
Ok this series just turned bloody brilliant I mean.....I didn't want it to finish need MORE!!!!!The audio I been listening to is fantastic too..... I get that old 80's horror music whenever something scary is about to happen or someone is giving chase, it really gave me the creeps.... I mean the Zombies in this were freakin scary if Anita wasn't controlling them! sometimes even when she did.This story opens even more possibilities and doors I could ever imagine... wow on this Authors imagination...
When I read the Kate Daniels series, I would see a lot of reviews that compared her to Anita Blake, and Kate would always come out on top. I could see some similarities, obviously, but I find Anita a little disappointing in how dumb she is. She really doesn't know how to shut the hell up so that someone would NOT want to kill her for a change. "I'm going to kill you," he hissed."Take a number," I said. She'll need to buy more number machines if she keeps up this pace of pissing people off...I...
I'd been hesitant to read one of these, despite rave reviews by people I trust - I'm not much of a fantasy reader, & we're talking vampires, zombies and werewolves here. Well, folks, what we *really* have is a book in the class of the Harold Shea books - one that bends genres and transcends them. I'm not even really going to review the book . . . .Let me back off a moment, & tell you what I usually read. I'm in the mining business, educated as a geologist & chemist. I like my SF hard, & I'm unco...
Anita Blake receives an offer to raise a 280 year old Zombie. But such a raising would require a human sacrifice, and Anita draws the line there. Dolph then summons her to the grisly scene of a crime--the remains of a family. Anita must now find the killer...before anyone else dies.Even though I didn't care for either the novel or the graphic novel of Guilty Pleasures, I decided to give this series another chance. I am glad I did, because this book was a lot more enjoyable than the previous book...