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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425227725
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0425227723
Label: Berkley Hardcover
Manufacturer: Berkley Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: June 02, 2009
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
Studio: Berkley Hardcover
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A proven series with a hot new look. The #1 bestselling author returns with her most anticipated novel yet.
When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Ten officers and one executioner have been slain-paranormal style. Anita heads to Vegas, where's she's joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward. It's a good thing he always has her back, because when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses "tiger" too strongly to ignore it. The weretigers are very powerful in Las Vegas, which means the odds of her rubbing someone important the wrong way just got a lot higher.
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Rating:  -
Skin Trade represents a "return" of sorts for Ms. Hamilton - for one thing it actually has the closest thing to a plot than I've seen in her last six books. It looks like the author attempted to get back to the main character's roots - fantastic. There is a supernatural maniac on the loose and Anita Blake is on the case. The navel gazing is kept to a minimum and even the sex is within context and not used as weird filler.
However, Ms. Hamilton's publishers need to get her partnered with a good editor, because that's where this book falls apart:
Conversations go on too long.
If she insists on having such a huge number of characters - they need to be better defined. The supernatural swat team she helps in Las Vegas began to blur. I couldnt keep the two angry cops in charge straight (Morgan and Shaw or maybe Hooper - I got them confused) - this could have been blended to one character.
Plot lines that never are finished. There were suspects in jail - important enough that Hamilton wrote a few scenes including them... and that's it. This is a consistent problem with her books.
Anita's powers are always "growing" and some how superior to EVERYTHING else - it gets old and I think the reader gets bored with the approach. We all know that Anita is pretty, petite, scares ALL bad guys, has repeatedly explained how she's bigger and badder than the guys think she is. However,for someone who seems to be able to do everything, her constant and sometimes inane internal dialogue about her relationship problems is boring.
Hamilton's books became popular, but she still needs some hard feedback and good editing. Skin Trade is a much better book than she has been pumping out lately. I can only hope she continues to improve.
Rating:  -
I enjoyed this volume a lot, it had more plot development, and it keeps the action going. Not so much time wasted on her version of soft porn element. Which as a guy I find a bit lame. i.e. Ann Rice wrote excellent porn in her Sleeping Beauty Series. I like romance left more up to the mind as to the action taking place. No long winded x rated stuffies here. Plot and Action. Yeah baby
Rating: -
I absolutely loved this book. I am a very serious fan of Anita and family. I love the relationship she has with Edward and his crew and the intimacy they shared in this book. I love the sexiness of all the main characters. Awaiting the next one.
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I love this series, and I love these characters. However, I must say that this book seemed to be missing the magic touch. Usually, no matter how fantastical the situations, how gory the violence, or how detailed the sex is...I am completely there with the book. This is the first one that somehow lost me midway. Anita just doesn't seem to be herself lately. Maybe that is just the character changing. Or maybe it was just me, but I expected more. When I didn't get it, I was kind of disappointed a bit. Good book though.
Rating:  -
When I started reading this book I had already passed judgment on it. That it would be like its immediate predecessors just another book about neverending sexcapades. I was wrong the very first sentence hooked me and I started enjoying the complexities of the tiger community. The ending was rather zoomed through and many good would be villians and plotpoints were glossed over. Hopefully they will be brought up later. Maybe LKH finally listened to what her readers wanted. Anita without the men baggage. Except for some brief phone conversations and a few encounters this was basically back to being an Ania book. I did not like the part about the "woman hating female police lieutenant". In my opinion that was the most sexist hateful thing I have read in one of her books. My vote would be for Anita to cut the ties that bind, get rid of Jean-Claude, Asher, Nathaniel, Jason, Richard, Micah, Haven, Wicked, Truth, London, and the rest and move to Las Vegas. Explore the tiger side with all its complexities. Work more in her actual field and worry less about her sex life. This was perhaps the best Anita book since like book 10 or so. No constant relationship arguments just Anita being Anita. My only criticism is or was that the book could have been a few hundred or more pages longer to actually deal with Vittorio. Plus I have a feeling that Marmee Noir is not gone. LBK stop rushing the endings, stop saving the best tidbits for last and quit getting rid of good villians so fast and lingering over non essential plotlines. Other than that loved the book!
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