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I love Laurell Hamilton’s work. The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is outstanding! The first two books in this series, Guilty Pleasures and The Laughing Corpse are amazing pieces of work. This book declares no less awesomeness. This is the book that wraps you around the series and pulls everything together. This book is really the beginning of the journey that whips and turns you into a reality that is completely twisted, morbid and simply put, cool! Anita Blake is introduced to a few charac...
Anita and Richard, you can see the sparks but I am not totally convinced. I know she is fighting her attraction to Jean-Claude because of what he is. We find out there are bigger bad out there then even Anita knew and things get heated. I will tell you I am not a fan of snakes and this book has a lot of them. Overall I enjoyed the book and I am looking forward to seeing where this story is going to take us. Again I am a fan of the narration I like the voices she uses.
Creepy, funny, very brutal - I am enjoying this series immensely. But the slow burn is killing me.
Well, it's not going to be Anita. This girl is obsessed with her Nikes. Nikes are mentioned in this book so many times that if you played a drinking game with "Nike" as your word, you would be smashed by the halfway point of the book. But, don't worry, she always color coordinates her Nikes with a sporty fanny pack. To look more fashionable, of course.So, even though we want to picture Anita like this:She is actually more like this:So, in this book we have a pack of vampires murdering people. An...
"Your questions will make something simple last all...day." Just three books in, and already we can see a pattern forming. Dudes come to Anita to have her do something; she says, in no uncertain terms, "No". Dolph calls her to investigate a murder; it ends up being the weirdest, most unusual murder Anita has ever seen. Jean-Claude makes the moves on her; Anita tells him to F@#$ off. Anita does minor investigating, bad guys come out of the woodworks to try to kill her, Anita is rude and sarcastic...
things are started to heat up...drama here i come!!
“Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?""I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said."I rest my case.” I postponed writing this review for as long as I could. Then I postponed it again. Then again. Finally I realized I need to do it right now before I forget what is was about. The reason was I have no clue how to rate the book. I was hoping for a bright idea, a Eureka! moment, something. Nothing came. And here I am as clueless as I was right after finishing. So about the plot of Circus
“I could have made this pleasant, but now I think I want you to hurt. Look into my eyes, mortal, and despair.” - Alejandro 3rd Listen: Edward makes everything better! Also I’m a big fan of the lamia, even if she did portend Anita the succubus. And Richard, jee-zusz Richard: “We were fighting and we hadn’t even had one date, that was a record ever for me.” -Anita Blake on the subject of Richard2nd Listen: Still a good time even if I do cringe at the introduction of Richard.Oooh, bad guys comin...
I’m still enjoying the Anita Blake series, although I have to tell you, Anita does not seem like a 24 year old character to me. I think she would be much more believable as someone in her late 30’s or early 40’s considering how jaded she seems to be and how experienced she thinks she is. I wonder if Hamilton got any money from Nike for product placement? It seems like she mentions the shoes by name at least once per chapter. Although I suppose I could say the same thing about 2-3 brands of gun…....
Absolutely hated the book. Maybe it's a case of reading too many in the series so close together but I am so done with the love/hate thing Anita has with Jean-Claude and her supposed badass attitude. The writing misses the mark trying to create what I would consider a strong dominant character and instead the character comes across as very insecure, hates herself and everyone around her and has a really lousy sense of fashion. Maybe others like that kind of psychological baggage but it's not for...
I also thought the premise of Anita Blake was pretty cool. She's an Animator, see? She raises zombies for a living. And vampires are legal citizens. Eventually, she's supposed to get involved with both a vampire and a werewolf. I say eventually cause even though I thought this was a central theme of the books, I've read 2 and a half of them and there have been nary a creature-of-the-night and vampire hunter smoochie. I take that back. There was one, but it was one of those contrived "fake kiss s...
I am really enjoying my rereading of this series. Going back to the beginning of the series has reminded me why I continue to read along even though it has morphed into another beast entirely. These early books were so great because the men and the sex weren’t the focus of the entire freaking plot.Here Anita is still working as an animator and an assistant to preternatural police force. Anita has a full plate, as usual, after a full night of corpse raising, she’s then hounded by members of “the
Without a doubt, better than the first two. I really like Jean-Claud. He is the reason I am reading these books. I have never wanted a bad guy to get the girl before, it's fun. Anita was a bit disappointing. I'm beginning to wonder if Jean-Claud deserves better.The swearing is excessive and redundant. And I realize that in a series you have to make each book a stand alone and therefore have to explain the same thing several times. But does it have to be word for word? There are literally paragra...
Anita Blake to the rescue again???!!!I'm afraid my love affair with Anita's badass ways may be coming to an end. Too much of a good thing I suppose.It's kinda like when you have a crush on someone so everything they do is wonderful. But a few months into the relationship the actions you once loved start to annoy the crap out of you. I'm starting to feel that way towards Anita. I loved her bitchiness, no soft edges, tough as nails, I don't date vampires, I kill them attitude. But now I am gettin
For all the Anita Blake books - I started this series with my then friend, Meredith - she actually got me hooked that fateful summer of 2000 when I was living on her wooden floor in Brooklyn. We were both unemployed and bored and got hooked into this series. I loved Anita Blake because it was before I discovered the new genre - what I like to call "badass chicks who kick ass!" written in first person - and so she was all empowering and of course there were hot vampires and werewolves in it. Unfo...
I'm always amazed at how different the beginning of this series is from the end. Anita has changed/grown a lot. I always find it strange when I re-read the beginning that Anita ever hated Jean-Claude or preferred Richard. I'm also always amazed at Anita's ability to get into trouble and injured. I'm amazed she hasn't died yet.I also really like seeing her learning her necromancy power and teaching others how to raise the dead. I think that's really cool.I also find it amazing that there is a mil...
I'm tapping out. I can't understand how anyone could be motivated enough to continue this series. This book reinforces all the things that bugged me about the first two and manages to drum up some new irks at the same time. Anita is awful. I long for the day when authors can write independent, strong women without making them into raging assholes. I checked myself and thought whether or not her behavior would be more acceptable if she were a man, but no. Insulting others is not a form of wit. It...
Typos! So many typos. And don't even get me started on how annoying Anita Blake is. There were so many times I wanted to fling this book across the room because she did yet another stupid thing. There were so many "Seriously! WTF" moments, in fact there were just too many.And what's with her obsession with Nikes and bad clothes? Has this woman got absolutely no fashion sense?And then of course there's the nipples. Nipples everywhere!How is this a best seller?
Circus of the Damned did not scare me or grossed me out as much as Guilty Pleasures or The Laughing Corpse. I also didn't like it as much as the last two books of the series.Jean-Claude is turning Anita's life into one hell of a big mess; Anita is firstly baited by a vampire Master called Alejandro, who controls a pack of rabid vampires who have chewing up people and leaving them on the cemetery. Alejandro wishes to know who is the Vampire Master controlling the city of St.Louis, and his where h...
Okay, I made it to book 3. Why? I'm not sure. It's like eating potato chips. I don't really like them, but the bag is there so I keep on eating them. . . .This is so over-the-top and silly. But I kept on turning the pages. Had to see just who she was going to blow away with her gun(s) or stab with her knives.One small woman, all those ancient vampires. And no one can kill this woman? Really?Sigh. Against my better judgement, on to book 4. . . .I'm opening another bag.