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| Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 16) | 
 enlarge | Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Creator: Cynthia Holloway
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  297 reviews
Sales Rank: 1874061
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, Cd
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Abridged
Number Of Items: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 1597379018
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781597379014
ASIN: 1597379018
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
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Product Description
Jason Schuyler is a werewolf. He’s also one of Anita Blake’s best friends, and sometimes her lover. And right now he needs her – not to be a vampire hunter, or a federal marshal, or a necromancer, or even for her rank in the werewolf pack, but because his father is dying. He needs Anita because she’s a pretty woman who loves him, who can make him look like an everyday guy, who agrees to go home with him and help him say good-bye to the abusive father he never loved. The fact that Jason is about as much an everyday guy as Anita is a pretty woman is something they figure they can keep under wraps for a couple of days in a small town. How hard can that be?
Really, by now, Anita Blake should know better.
Marmee Noir, ancient mother of all vampires, picks this weekend to make a move. Somehow she has cut the connection that binds Anita and Jean-Claude, leaving Jean-Claude unable to sense what is happening. Dangerous even as she sleeps, buried in darkness for a thousand years somewhere beneath the old country of Europe, Marmee Noir reaches out toward power. She has attacked Anita before, but never like this. In Anita she senses what she needs to make her enemies tremble…
“What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.” – USA Today
“[A] wildly popular paranormal series.” – Entertainment Weekly
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| Customer Reviews: Read 292 more reviews...
 Very Disappointing December 2, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am so glad it's not just me. I read a couple of the earlier Anita Blake novels and loved them. I jumped to this latest one and couldn't believe how much they have changed--terrible plot! I thought the (group) sex was riduculous and unnecessary. I will not read anymore Anita Blake books.
 Anita's got more issues December 2, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
this book was good.. all her books are.. but this one was a little more focused on the problem Anita and Jason encountered and not on sex all the time.. good book..
Quitting Anita Blake November 26, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I too have read all of the Anita Blake books and I too will not be reading any more. After reading Harlequin and seeing how the sex was somewhat toned down from the last book, I thought that maybe - just maybe - Hamilton was listening to her critics and working on toning down the sex and attempting to going back to a real plot... but after reading this latest 'novel', I can see I was wrong.
Nothing's wrong with a little sex. Nothing is wrong with not having every character asking 'why?'. It gets aggravating to read nothing but characters over-analyzing each other and having absolutely nothing to do but screw each others brains out.
There is no plot. Nothing worth paying $$ for, anyways. I'm disgusted, disappointed, and no longer foolish enough to shell out money for crappy porn.
The downward spiral continues.. breaking point? November 19, 2008
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have this to say to LKH, and about Blood Noir and the new direction of the Anita Blake series.
If you're going to write porn, learn to write it well. If you're going to continue calling these "real" novels, you might want to up the plot factor and let the sex become a delicious little treat every few chapters.
BN is too full of poorly written sexual encounters for me to consider it seriously. If you want to turn it into the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (if you know what I mean, wink wink) series, by all means, but please, start to use words and phrases besides "breathy" and "just flat does it for me". It's like LKH has been walking the line between eroticism and being too embarrassed to write what she's really "seeing" for many books now, and it's getting old.
(A side note about LKH follows, feel free to skip to the bottom for the rest of my Blood Noir review)
If you'd like your audience to start taking you seriously again, please give us back our strong, independent Anita. And please stop giving her new metaphysical powers every time she gets into a fight (which is happening less and less frequently).
As for sleeping beauty, aka Marmee, that's a WONDERFUL plot waiting to happen.. it could take the series back where it belongs and onto a whole new level.. please write it on par with the first few books, and whatever you do.. please don't have Anita hop into the sack with the zombie/vampire/lycanthrope/ghoul/etc combination I'm sure you'll turn Marmee into.
/rant.
In short, Blood Noir is either a poorly planned and written novel, or a poorly executed porn. Given LKH's penchant for backtracking in just about every previous book, you could certainly skip this one and not miss a thing. My advice? Wait for paperback, or ignore it all together.
(Oh, and to echo a previous review I had written.. when are Anita and the gang going to start dressing like it ISN'T 1987?) How many royal blue shells, or shells of any color, for that matter, does Anita own? Does anyone call stockings "hose" anymore? And we all know the litany of complaints about the way she dresses the men. Yikes.
1 Star is too good November 12, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I can't say it better than this:
If I wanted porn - I'd rather watch it then read it. I'd get more out of it.
I was so addicted to Anita Blake and the character. But the last few books have just been trash in my eyes. And no, I'm not a prude. FAR FAR FAR from it.
This book has the least substance of them all for me. It's a waste of paper it was printed on.
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