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Laurell K. Hamilton, Nikoo McGoldrick, Stacie Ritchie, Jess Ruffner-booth - Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures
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Average Rating: Excellent
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 11, 2009
Pros: Great characters, plot, suspense, brilliantly written, smart and witty. Best female heroin in years.
Cons: Couldn't wait to finish this book so I could continue. No negative comments from me
Summary: I started This series because a friend recommended it and frankly all the books I had read lately have just been rubbish. Who would have thought that such an addiction hid that deep inside ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 2, 2008
Pros: Vampires, the supernatural, and a "whodunit" plot
Cons: The story feels thrown together and a little perverse
Summary: I wanted to get into something different in terms of reading novels; I had gone from Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, but I eventually got tired of all that and decided to go for ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 31, 2008
Pros: fascinating world, intriguing characters,interesting crimes
Cons: none that I can think of
Summary: Anita Blake raises zombies from their graves for Animators Inc, and is also the legal vampire executioner for the fine state of Missouri. In fact, her kill record has caused the vampire community to refer to her as The Executioner with all the implied ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 27, 2007
Pros: Well written, unique, excellently characterized, entrancing
Cons: None.
Summary: Set in modern day St. Louis we are introduced to an earth similar to our own, yet vastly different in the descriptions of its denizens. Alongside humans vampires, werewolves, zombies, and various other mythical phantasmagoria exist, all of which are ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 15, 2007
Pros: Fantastic origninality. Absolutely entertaining.
Cons: Story line is not very strong.
Summary: I originally got the idea of reading Laurell K. Hamilton from a review that dramastef posted. I have to say, I haven't been effected by a book like I was with this one in a very long time. Although Hamilton can be disjointed and ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 3, 2006
Pros: Cheap fun. Doesn't take itself too seriously.
Cons: I really can't think of any.
Summary: What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire? It had been one of my stranger weeks. I love that line, for me it sums up ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 15, 2006
Pros: Funny, entertaining, interesting characters, fast-paced
Cons: Fluff
Summary: I don’t get hooked easily, but I have to admit I’ve been hooked to Anita Blake, the Vampire Hunter series since the book one, Guilty Pleasures. I feel a bit guilty about it, because these books are fluff – but hey, they ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 28, 2005
Pros: witty female heroine, intense, fun to read, fluff
Cons: violence, a lot of characters
Summary: Guilty Pleasures is the first book in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series, written by Laurell K. Hamilton. I began reading this series about 6 years ago when my brother read the first couple of books in this series and recommended ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 30, 2004
Pros: Vampire lore, spun in a new way.
Cons: It's still fluff, albeit good fluff.
Summary: Even the title sounds like a soft-porn Harlequin Romance novel (are they actually called novels?). It is marketed as a horror romance. So, despite the fact that a very good friend with similar literary taste, a friend who shares my love for all ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 18, 2004
Pros: Fun, flowing and easy to read. Interesting characters you can identify with.
Cons: Not for someone looking for a solve-it-yourself mystery, or a romance spiced with horror.
Summary: Welcome to the world of Anita Blake. Set in a modern day St. Louis very similar to our own, Anita deals with a supernatural element we don't. She raises zombies for a living. (Mind you, this has only become a respected profession in the last 5 years or ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 18, 2004
Pros: What can I say? The whole thing is a wonderful work.
Cons: Steer clear if your stomach is extremely weak.
Summary: This is the first book in the Anita Blake series. If you're here, I'm sure you knew that. Anita Blake is introduced as a tough, sassy animator/vampire executioner. She lives up to this totally. You'll find yourself snapping back at rude guys in the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 15, 2004
Pros: Fascinating character studies and a unique perspective on a derivative genre.
Cons: Sometimes, there's just nothing wrong with a book. No cons.
Summary: Plot details: This review reveals no major plot points. Nearly all modern vampire stories fall into one of three mythological taxonomies. Anne Rice and her vampiric ubermenschen clearly leads the pack, inspiring a hundred would-be clones who ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 18, 2003
Pros: Wonderfully developed, believable and likable characters; intriguing plot, a real page turner
Cons: None that I can think of
Summary: Guilty Pleasures is the first book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton. The setting is present-day St. Louis, MO. Humans share the city with preternatural beings, such as vampires, wereanimals, and ghouls. Vampires are ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 9, 2003
Pros: Lots of supernatural fun.
Cons: None come to mind.
Summary: Move over, Buffy. There’s a new vampire slayer on the block, and she’s here to stay. Not that Buffy will likely complain, mind you. Surely, there must be enough vampires to go around for everyone. So without further ado, please allow me to ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 9, 2002
Pros: Excellent writing style. Totally captivates you.
Cons: Not for the squeamish.
Summary: Guilty Pleasures is book one in Laurell K.Hamilton’s Anita Blake series. There are a total of ten books in this series with an eleventh book coming out in February of 2003.
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 17, 2002
Pros: Great story, interesting characters, good style
Cons: none
Summary: This is the first novel in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series which in my opinion is the very best vampire series currently out there. Hamilton's books are vivid (not for the weak at heart), action packed and often filled with intrigue and the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 7, 2001
Pros: Quick Read, Exciting, Different, Fresh! Highly enjoyable
Cons: After reading the first book, you'll end up buying the entire series.
Summary: Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton is the first book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series. Hamilton very impressively balances three different genres, fantasy; horror and romance, into an incredible tale with a moral core. In Anita Blakes ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 30, 2001
Pros: Fast-paced, interesting characters, leaves you wanting more
Cons: Ending was rushed
Summary: A few plot secrets ahead: Read at your own risk!
I just read this book for the second time, and I was no less enthralled this time than the last time. Laurell K. Hamilton has the ability to create a world that you can believe in, and that ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 25, 2001
Pros: Great series. Love the characters. realistic writting
Cons: have to read it in order of the others
Summary: Anita Blake character is great. She is witty, funny and can be easily place in the real world. Hamilton has a style of writting that draws the reader in and make it blend in with the real world. My favorite character in this book is the male stripper ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 24, 2001
Pros: well-written, spunky heroine, little drivel, lots of action, fast read
Cons: a bit violent, character depth reflects first-in-series status
Summary: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Anita Blake, The Executioner. Anita Blake, ma petite. Anita Blake, Animator (maker of zombies, think of how much easier that would make investigations and probate!). Anita Blake, penguin afficionado. Anita Blake, walking ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 5, 2001
Pros: Wonderfully written. Exciting story line.
Cons: Not long enough.
Summary: This book is so amazingly written and so well thought out. The plot line is absolutly riveting and full of twists and turns that keep you captivated.
From the introduction of Anita Blake to he climactic ending this book is one hundred percent ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 2, 2001
Pros: A great lead character, amazing character development.
Cons: The cheesy cover!
Summary: Like many people nowadays, I have a bizarre fascination with vampires, and all things supernatural. I've always been a fan of horror movies, and one of my first books was "The Amityville Horror."(I was never one for light reading, even as a small ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 27, 2001
Pros: Hard boiled style
Cons: Needed more clues for a mystery.
Summary: This is a good first effort. Hamilton presents a world similar to Alien Nation, where a very strange demographic enters the mainstream. In this case, the demographic is made up of monsters from our fantasies and nightmares: vampires, werecreatures, ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 29, 2000
Pros: Facts, myths, slang terms the characters uses is explained(yippie!)
Cons: the book wasn't long enough, 300 something pages is never enough with this writer!
Summary: Laurel Hamilton is so amazing. Her character, Anita Blake is one tough cookie! This chick raises the dead for a living and is being chased by a love-sick vampire,Jean Claude, who happens to be the master vampire of the city.
She is such an ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 22, 2000
Pros: supernatural elements, memorable characters, good plot, page turner!
Cons: may be too violent for some readers
Summary: Guilty Pleasures is the first book in Laurel K. Hamilton's "Anita Blake Vampire Hunter" series. I came across this at the library and since I'm a fan of vampire fiction I checked it out. I was immediately hooked! In the world of Anita Blake ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 6, 2000
Pros: clever idea for a story and a fun "fluff" read
Cons: too many characters who were just cardboard props
Summary: For week after week, the women in my bookclub were raving about a series of books about a person called "Anita Blake." The conversation kept coming around to these books. Finally, one of the women in the group brought one to me to read ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 6, 2000
Pros: Quick read. Fast Paced. Great characters.
Cons: none
Summary: Being a big fan of Stephen King and C. Barker, I was looking for some horror that was a little lighter. Ms. Hamilton has created a world, not unlike our own with just a few little twists. Some of the things that we take for abnormal, scary, or terrible ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 5, 2000
Pros: funny, well-written, interesting (if not quite fleshed out yet) characters, fast-paced
Cons: characters somewhat derivative (but see later books for development)
Summary: Guilty Pleasures will addict you to Hamilton's alternative world where vampires, zombies, and weres are, if not run-of-the-mill citizens, at least acknowledged and "real."
Fast-paced and often laugh-out-loud funny, this book and its ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 12, 2000
Pros: Lots of action. Complex characters (believe it or not).
Cons: Not available in hardback
Summary:
Well monster movie fans, have I got the series for you. Imagine a world where vampires, ghouls, zombies and werewolves are literally part of everyday life. Well, Anita Blake lives in such a world. Sounds like pure fun, doesn't it? Well it is, but ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 15, 2000
Pros: Good story, atmosphere
Cons: ?
Summary: This book was recommended to me by my brother who reads everything. I usually don't get into much of the horror genre but I bought the first three books of the Anita Blake Series and I've finished this one and I'm reading the The Laughing Corpse now. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 18, 2000
Pros: keeps you on the edge
Cons: a bit dark
Summary: "guilty pleasures", the first book in laurell k. hamilton's ongoing anita black: vampire hunter, is a great foundation to set the series on. the book is an entraling page turner that will keep you turning the pages until the book is done. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 15, 2000
Pros: You'll laugh, cry, and put off going to the bathroom several times if you don't take your book with you in there
Cons: You may not sleep much after starting this book
Summary: When Anita Blake goes to her friend’s last minute bachalorette party she has no idea she will end up in the only vampire strip club in existence. Nor could she imagine recent vampire murders would nearly cost her life trying to solve it. In this first ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 9, 2000
Pros: Fast paced, humorous
Cons: none
Summary: Guilty Pleasures got me hooked in the first chapter, and Laurell K. Hamilton's wonderful characters, humor, and fast paced writing kept me going through all 8 books in this series. Anita Blake is a wonderful character,she is a young, small, sassy ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 28, 1999
Pros: Excellent writing, intense story, super characters
Cons: Lots of violence
Summary: The first book in the Anita Blake series is a true find for all lovers of the supernatural. Once you read this, you will be hooked and searching for the rest of the books. If you have never read any of these books, you are in for a real treat.
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 16, 1999
Pros: Solid Writing, Fast moving, ample firepower, good characters
Cons: sometimes disorienting, extremely violent
Summary: Laurell K. Hamilton's novel concerning the vampires of the dark side of New Orleans is not only a well-written vampire yarn but also set in an interesting alternate world.
Having given legal protection to vampires, the Supreme Court has ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 13, 1999
Pros: Exciting quick read.
Cons: They don't come out fast enough.
Summary: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake could give Buffy the vampire slayer a run for her money. Anita is tough and sassy, animator by profession (she raises the dead), Executioner by calling. Anita is called to the fore as an investigator with a special ... read more
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Aug 14, 2005
Pros: A BOOK THAT HAS IT ALL!! AND CHEAPER THAN A MOVIE TICKET!!
Cons: SOME GORE FOR THOSE WHO ARE GROSSED OUT EASY
Summary: I can't even think where to begin. This is the starting book to a wonderfully written series by Laurell K. Hamilton. The book is the perfect start in introducing this chick who can deliver all!! The book contains, lust, mystery, action, love, career,
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