India Press Store - Cerulean Sins (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 11)

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780515136814 ISBN: 0515136816 Label: Jove Manufacturer: Jove Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 560 Publication Date: 2004-08-31 Publisher: Jove Release Date: 2004-08-31 Studio: Jove
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Not as bad as some reviews would have you think... Comment: It is fair to say that the Anita Blake series started out with a serious bang and to almost universal applause from critics and readers alike. Then around book 9, our heroine met with some...changes. From about book 10 onwards it has been nothing but hate from critics and readers alike. Amazon is populated with hundreds of 1 and 2 star ratings for books 11, 12, 13 and 14. Pretty much everyone turned on author Laurell K Hamilton and gutted her with a very long, very sharp sword. Was this a great book? No, not great. But it was good, it was engaging and it kept me reading. Hamilton is gifted with a wonderful imagination and Anita is so very practical and real and solid. She's incredibly likeable, despite the fact that she kills monsters for a living and *gasp* sleeps with more than one man at a time. However, the finer points of plotting and story development are not really Hamilton's gifts. In the beginning books she was clearly heavily edited and the books were better for it. But like some other authors I can think of, as she became more popular and sold more books, her books got bigger and bigger and not necessarily better. Typos and grammatical errors (truly appalling ones, like the use of "isle" instead of "aisle" in a wedding setting) crept in and gave people who hated what Hamilton did to Anita Blake even more ammo to throw her way. And really, the publishers should be ashamed of themselves. Anyway, the book itself was good. The plot was a bit thin, with a gaping hole in the middle resolved with a last minute tie up that was a bit too convenient. It was nice to see some development with Richard actually growing a pair and Asher finally getting back into Jean-Claude's (and Anita's) bed (at the same time! Shock! Horror!). Anita's character only moved forward marginally, but some of the scenes with her and Belle Morte/Musette were vintage Anita and really well done. Part of the reason I enjoyed this book so much was because it has been well over a year since I read Anita Blake number 10. I have discovered that a little Anita goes a long way. I have number 12 sitting on my bookshelf as we speak, but I'll be giving it at least a few months breathing room, maybe more. Customer Rating: Summary: I was disappointed Comment: I can't remember what book in the series I was on when I stopped reading it, but I remember I stopped when the plot and characters went down the toilet, and it was all just sex, sex, sex, and more sex. I don't get into romance novels much because that's all they're usually about. No really good plot to keep you turning the pages in them. Unfortunatly, that's how this series ended up, a really trashy erotica novel full of sex with strange men and that's all. A previous poster said something about her "ardeur". I remember when Anita would get this, but then it turned into just an excuse for Miss Hamilton to write a few more pages about having to have sex with some other strange guy (maybe two at once) because the "ardeur" flared up again...and again....and again....and again. It's sad really, the direction this series went. Customer Rating: Summary: More of the same. Comment: I mindlessly read the entire book before I realized that it's just covering more of the same territory as the previous books. I think Obsidian Butterfly was the last one that I really enjoyed. There's no longer any suspense. All of her books involve a bad guy/guys who Anita triumphs over in the end. During the course of all of the books people/creatures are going to die and/or be tortured, some of them may even be Anita's "friends/soldiers/sex partners". The difference with the later books is that it's become difficult to feel any empathy for the characters, especially since they are all seen from Anita's increasingly twisted point-of-view. Customer Rating: Summary: Amazing Comment: I absolutely love this series... If you like loosing yourself in a book, this is the series. There still is a plot eventhough there is so much sex. The sex is what keeps me interested. Customer Rating: Summary: don't know Comment: Have not been mailed the book, have writen once to sender and have heard nothing. As of now very unhappy. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Once a sworn enemy of all monsters, Anita is now the human consort of both Master Vampire Jean Claude and leopard shapeshifter Micah. When a centuries-old vampire hits St. Louis, Anita finds herself needing all the dark forces her passion can muster to save the ones she loves.