Define Out Of Books Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1)
| Title | : | Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1) |
| Author | : | Laurell K. Hamilton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 355 pages |
| Published | : | August 3rd 2004 by Berkley (first published October 1993) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Vampires. Horror. Romance. Fiction |
Laurell K. Hamilton
Paperback | Pages: 355 pages Rating: 4.02 | 128806 Users | 5480 Reviews
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Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy...
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| Original Title: | Guilty Pleasures |
| ISBN: | 0425197549 (ISBN13: 9780425197547) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/Anita/GuiltyPleasures.htm |
| Series: | Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1 |
| Characters: | Anita Blake, Dolph Storr, Zerbrowski (Anita Blake series), Jean-Claude (Anita Blake series), Edward "Ted" Forrester, Malcolm (Anita Blake series), Bert Vaughn |
| Setting: | St. Louis, Missouri(United States) |
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Ratings: 4.02 From 128806 Users | 5480 ReviewsCrit Out Of Books Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1)
if you had to be someone in this world you could not do better then being anita blake.as cool as buffy and witty to boot.i will admit that this is one of my very own guilty pleasuresI have heard about this series as one of the best books in PNR/UF genre. So I avoided it like the plague. A lot of those popular series have a lot of hype and they never live up it. Well this book was one of the pleasant surprises. Guilty Pleasures was engrossing from the first chapter. Anita Blake, the vampire hunter, was a confident and capable heroine. She lived in St. Louis, Missouri where vampirism was legal. In fact, they were so immersed in society that they had their own churches, strip
You know when you have someone who is constantly trying to get you to read a certain book because they KNOW you will love it? Well, that is why I decided to read this one. BUT, after I read it and told her that I liked it, she told me that this is NOT the series she was talking about. oops! haha, too bad! I like this one, so far, and now I guess she will have to wait (and nag me) even longer until I get to the series she meant for me to read. (Dark Hunter?)Also, she warned me to only read this
Okay, so some of the girls asked that I do a review of the Anita Blake series because I mentioned some things that intrigued them.It's not a finished series and usually I would reserve judgment on a series until it comes to its conclusion just in case the author was going somewhere I wasn't expecting.Kind of like that scene out of Austin Powers where Austin's in the bathroom stall with a bad guy and a big Texan man is in the next stall and can only see Austin's feet. He hears Austin Powers
**edited 12/15/13As this is one of the trope-makers for the urban fantasy genre, it was quite interesting to read. Even I found the worldbuilding fascinating. However, I did not enjoy it, and, as usual, I'm going to work off my ill humour by enumerating precisely why. With all my complaints, I do not exactly regret reading this. Hamilton's influence is visible throughout almost all of the books in our current urban fantasy genre, from the Dresden Files (Jim Butcher explicitly acknowledges his
Anita Blake is a vampire hunter/slayer among other dealings with the undead/occult and she's only in her early twenties. Story is told in a first person P.I. style which means there's some wry humor as well as a focus totally from the main character's POV. PROS (1) Fast read; (2) Vampires are similar to the legends but have enough unique differences where we are dealing with something new and enticing; (3) Anita is a nice mix of male and female which means she should appeal to both genders; (4)
It was ok, I guess. Before Kate Daniels it was Anita Blake. However, it is one of those rare instances where the copy cat is much better than the original. Anita is a raiser of the undead and killer of vampires. She is coerced to help a powerful vampire queen and to investigate the murder of several powerful vampires. The main problem with the book was its heroine. She was so unlikable, so proud of herself that she does no drink, doesn't have sex and is such a good Christian. Oh, she is so
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