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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780515134506
ISBN number: 0515134503
Label: Jove
Manufacturer: Jove
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 608
Printing Date: September 24, 2002
Publishing house: Jove
Sale Popularity Level: 13330
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Brief Book Summary:
There are a lot of monsters in Anita Blake's life. And some of them are human. One such individual is the man she calls Edward, a bounty hunter who specializes in the preternatural. He calls her to help him hunt down the greatest evil she has ever encountered. Something that kills and maims and vanishes into the night. Something Anita will have to face alone...
Praise for the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels:
'In Obsidian Butterfly, Laurell K. Hamilton delivers an erotic, demonic thrill ride. Her sexy, edgy, wickedly ironic style sweeps the reader into her unique world and delivers red-hot entertainment. Hamilton's marvelous storytelling can be summed up in three words: Over the top. She blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache. Great fun!'-- Jayne Ann Krentz
'Hamilton has endowed her heroine with a charming mix of male bravado, feminine guile, and self-deprecating humor.'-- Publishing houses Weekly
'Ms. Hamilton's intriguing blend of fantasy, mystery, and a touch of romance is great fun indeed.'-- Romantic Times
'Hamilton takes her world by the teeth and runs with it, devising a whipcrack adventure that moves like the wind, grips you by the throat and doesn't let go.'-- Locus
'Mayhem, madness, old spells and older vampires. And Anita Blake at the center of it, struggling to stay on top...perfect!'-- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Amazon.com:
Anita Blake, the tough, sexy vampire executioner, zombie animator, and police consultant for preternatural crimes in St. Louis, hunts monsters in New Mexico in the ninth book of Laurell K. Hamilton's excellent series. Edward, Anita's mentor in slaying, asks Anita to return the favor that she has owed him since she killed a backup he brought in to protect her. He needs Anita's preternatural expertise as well as her firepower. Something is skinning and mutilating a few of its chosen victims, and dismembering others. Edward has no idea what creature could be responsible for such heinous crimes.
Summoning Anita has its downside for Edward, since it means letting her onto his turf. Anita is surprised to find that this normally aggressive man has a personal life, and shocked by his ability to be entirely different from the stone cold killer she's known. She also has problems with the cop in charge in Albuquerque, who believes her powers must be evil, and with the other backups Edward has brought in. Most of all, she has to deal with her own vulnerability--she's tried to shut down her ties to her vampire and werewolf lovers and go it alone, but it turns out to be harder than she thought.
Anita's usual supporting cast is missing, and she's taking time out from her complex love life, but there's plenty of bloody action, vampires, werewolves, and Aztec ritual. Plus a lot more about Edward. Fans will find this installment similar to the earlier books in the series, particularly The Laughing Corpse. --Nona Vero.
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I really liked this entry in the series. Edward has always been my favorite character (besides Anita of course), and I'd missed him in the recent books, so I was glad to see he had such a huge role in this one. In this book, Edward calls in his favor from Anita and she travels to Arizona to assist him in investigating a series of mutilation murders. We get some insight into Edward's character and a glimpse at his long-buried human side! Jean-Claude only makes one brief appearance in this book, and Richard doesn't appear at all other than in conversation. And quite frankly, I did not miss either one of them! Terrible, I know, since Jean-Claude especially is such a central character, but I've never much cared for him or their relationship. In Arizona, Anita meets another of Edward's occasional back-ups, Olaf, who is a cold-blooded serial murderer who starts out hating Anita but comes to respect her in a creepy way, and I suspect that he will show up later in the series as well. An interesting character.
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So, the title says it. I'm done with Laurell Hamilton. Honestly, I did not even finish this book. I stopped with about 100 pages left. I'm sick of the author's fixation on sexual assault. In most of the books she's either had someone get raped, or attempted to be, or put in a porn film against their will. I was well aware that there was some sexually explicit content in these books, but there has been to this point, so little actual consensual sex. So I'm finished.
Other gripes about the book: the werewolf politics yet again. "You came in to my territory without paying me tribute" *snoooooze*
As a medical professional: When Anita was injured in the hospital and hurt, they said her blood pressure was 60/80. Not possible. The numbers can potentially be equal, but the second number cannot be higher than the first. Maybe I'm just nitpicking here, but that's how it goes.
Also irked by one of her lines when Anita was referencing women's weight: "Anything under size 5 isn't a woman, it's a boy with breasts"
Wow. Pretty insulting to your female readers who happen to be petite. Just like,oh your own main character endlessly is described as being so. That's a very catty line and I found it very insulting.
So enough Hamilton for me.I'd rather read an author with either less sex or more HEALTHY sex than this endless victimization of her characters. I'm just glad that this book was borrowed and I've never paid a dime for one of Hamilton's novels.
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In this book, Anita goes to help out her old fried-Edward. The book takes you to New Mexico where an Aztec god/monster is skinning people alive or ripping them from limb to limb. Throw in a rapist who gets his kicks by hacking his victims into pieces note:he's on the good side; A nursery ward where the babies get eatten and instant mumification and you have a thriller that keeps you on end! Yes, this book is dark and gory, but it showed a side of Anita and Edward that they thought they had long forgotten. If you hunt and hack monsters all the time, do you become one yourself or is there still some humanity left that is capable of love?
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For a few of her previous books, Hamilton has started taking Anita on more philosophical paths, and the story line tends to be overtly sexual. This novel, however, puts Anita right back up there, fighting with the bad guys! We get to learn a lot more about Edward's life, as well as visit some different aspects of the paranormal realm. Some of the descriptions of the victims are horrifyingly amazing! It was nice to see Anita in action again, rather than mooning over one of the many men in her life.
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I guess I just didn't get it. I've read the whole series so far and this book just doesn't seem to fit.
I do like Edward's charactor and I'm glad she wrote a book for Edward fans, because I am one. But I'm confused as to why Jean Claude and Richard were not a part of this book and why she's shut herself off from their power. It's just stupid.
And I always felt like there was a little bit of chemistry between her and Edward and to devote an entire book to him and have nothing happen between them was a little bit disappointing.
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