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It's nice for a change to see the heroine in a vampire series be a bad ass. Anita Blake in some ways is the anti-Bella Swan. Even though this series is rife with violence and sex, it's a better series for adolescent girls than Twilight as it presents a strong and likeable female lead. You won't find Anita Blake waiting around to be saved - you'll find her breaking arms and cracking skulls to save herself.
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THIS IS THE FIRST BOOK OF THE ANITA BLAKE SERIES. HER CHARACTERS ARE WELL DEVELOPED AND THE PLOTING MAKES IT A PAGE TURNER HAMILTON GIVES YOU A TASTE OF ALL FORMS OF THE PARANORMAL THROUGHOUT THE SERIES. HAMILTON IS NOT AFRAID TO LET HER MAIN CHARACTER GET IT TO TROUBLE THAT SHE GAN'T GET OUT OF WITHOUT HELP AND INJURIES THAT PUTS HER IN THE HOSPITAL FOR HUMAN AND A PARANORMAL HOSPITAL. HER BOOKS MAKES THE WORD IMAGINATION LACKING A TRUE MEANING. IF YOU LIKE PARANORMAL HAMILTON WILL BE AT THE TOP OF YOUR LIST OF AUTHORS.
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Women Vampire Hunters are HOT!
If the reader is into Vampires and Prenatural beings I highly recommend this series. The character Anita Blake is strong, full of integrity, confident and has a funny, cynical sense of humor. The book flows and keeps the reader in anticipation. It is also a very easy read. You won't fall asleep or stumble with the dialogue.
The book is fast moving and the characters a lot of fun. I highly recommend this vampire series for all vampire fans.
Happy Reading!
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Guilty Pleasures is the first book in the Anita Blake - Vampire Hunter series. The protagonist, Anita, is a necromancer with a real hatred for vampires. But when the local vampires decided that they want her to investigate some vampire murders, she learns that they will go to any lengths to get her to do what they want.
I've never read any books by Laurell K. Hamilton, although I've been meaning to for quite a while. When you read a lot of books in this genre, you hear her name a lot! So I finally am trying her out!
This book does seem to be a good set-up for a great series. But on it's own, it was just alright. It did create a fantastic world that I am looking forward to reading about more in the future. Those of my friends that are huge fans of this series have mentioned one of the characters, Jean-Claude, many times to me. I liked what I saw of him, but there really wasn't anywhere near enough of him for me to get a good feel for him. Hopefully his character will be explored more in the next few books.
Overall - A really good read. Not a favorite, but I have a feeling that the series will just get better.
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I have to be honest. I only read half of this book. It was so bad, I couldn't finish it. I absolutely cannot stand to not finish reading something, but it was just that horrible.
I don't know where to start. Maybe I was put off by the numerous grammatical errors I found within the first few chapters alone. It was ghastly. You shouldn't be distracted by miuse of words or lack of punctuation while reading something for leisure.
The next thing that bothered me was Anita. She's described as being more masculine than feminine -- that's quite an understatement, as I never rememeber recalling any feminine characteristics about her other than she's a woman -- and yet we're supposed to believe she's this undead sex magnet? Later on in the series it's no secret that she sleeps with everything on two and four legs. Where is this attraction coming from? Her unkempt and mutilated body? Hamilton went to painful lengths to make sure to tell us about how most of her body is covered in battle wounds. Her attitude is horrible as well. She's rude to everyone, even the things that are trying to kill her. That part probably bothered me the most. Every time she's faced with an adversary, instead of thinking about her situation and how to get out of whatever predicament she's in, she says the most rude thing she can off the top of her head to her enemy and then remorses over the fact with an "Oh, oops...he's mad now. Maybe I shouldn't have said that."
I have no problems with masculine or dominant female figures in a novel, I just think Anita was poorly thought out. Ok. She's this super-strong no-one-can-beat-her mortalish thing, with no frilly female characteristics to make her undesirable, except she's smoking hot? She sounds like she came fresh out of a man's fantasy. To me, she's just a Mary Sue character -- flawless and stronger and more capable than everyone else in the book. Ok, so not everyone likes her and it can be argued that she has "flaws." Still, to her character, these things don't matter because she believes she is better than everyone else.
Someone lent me this book and told me I'd love it. I wouldn't finish it if my life depended on it. I never got sucked into the story enough to care what happens. I can't even say I'd recommend it to even the most die hard vamp/urban fantasy fan.
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