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Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names. It is forbidden to speak of The Harlequin unless you've been contacted. And to be contacted by The Harlequin is to be under sentence of death.

Long-time rivals for Anita's affections, Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, alpha-werewolf, will need to become allies. Shapeshifters Nathaniel and Micah will have to step up their support. And then there's Edward. In this situation, Anita knows that she needs to call the one man who has always been there for her...

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Wonderful seller	Customer Rating:
The book I purchased was listed as used, but was in such good condition I would have sworn it was new! A great deal!

Story is Absoultely Dreadful - Audio reader is good though

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I heard great reviews about the Anita Blake series and happened to find the audio version of this one at my local library. I probably should have started with the first book, but this one was available and I really wanted to check out this series. For the Audio version, the reader does do a nice job of reading the story, but that is the only nice thing that I can say. I got about 1/2 through the book and couldn't continue. Nothing deep here. Lots of talk about herms, orgy sized beds, and Anita's 7 (YES 7) lovers that she has all at once. There was a story here, but hard to muddle your way through with all the other stuff going on, so I chose to put it down. I certainly don't mind a book that's a little sexy, but this to me was just plain sick. I hate to be harsh, but this was just plain bad. Her writing style isn't bad but the story is too much to bear.

A Sad Death

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LKH had the potential of doing for dark fantasy what Mercedes Lackey did for high fantasy... but alas it was not meant to be. A series that started out with hoards of promise has spiraled from outstanding to airport pulp to personal therapy for the writer down to nothing more than a formula for laugh ability. Curious what will happen in upcoming books? Standard bad guy will come in upset balance. Anita will call in "backup" she never really uses and we never really get to know. She will get one or two "bodyguards" she obviously does not need killed... and then agonize over it like they were babies and not bodyguards. Things will come to a head but Anita will magically get some new massive awesome mystical power and save everyone most likely through having sex with a brand new character who will also never be developed. Nobody really relates to her anymore. She should just slaughter them all and sit happily atop the pile of corpses... keeping only two alive for her... pleasure? I really really had high hopes for this series. Rather than carbon copying the characters over to Meredith Gentry she could have further explored this alternate earth. Given up stunning yet separate stories of Richard, Edward, London, Cherry, Claudia or even Jason. So many likable characters she could have developed and kept us all coming back for more. Instead her eye has become so narrow she has forsaken the other massive personalities the lived within her own mind. She has allowed Anita to.. indeed... slaughter all she loved and become a universe within her own mind. The Anita Blake series is dead and I don't see it rising again anytime soon.

I am guilty of being a fan.

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I enjoy all the Anita Blake books including this one. I buy them and will read them over and over again. This is one of my go to series when I need something to read and have nothing new. The author is not the best writer, but these action filled books have me addicted. If the writer could improve upon her skills, cheesiness, and repetitive use of the same descriptions. The dialog can drag on and become nagging making you wonder how you can like characters in a book that seem so ignorant and lacking in sense.

Another chapter in the decline of Hamiton's writing.

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Its my own fault for purchasing her books, I know. I am continuously appalled at how such a strong willed female heroine has become nothing more then a mediocre concubine. I realized I was 183 pages into this book and there was still really no plot other then Anita's ever-growing "love" triangle. There was supposed to be a plot. There's something like a bad guy lurking around, but it is so over shadowed by trite dialog and sexual activity that there really is no point in having the bad guy threat at all. I put the book down then and have not finished it. I once again realize that it is my fault for purchasing Hamiltons book. No matter how many bad reviews she gets, as long as people are still buying the smut it doesn't matter. I, for one, will no longer be spending any money on these books.