The Harlequin (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) | 
| Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher: Jove
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 6992
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 448
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0515144614
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780515144611
ASIN: 0515144614
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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Condition: ex library nice reading copy
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Product Description
The 15th Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel now in paperback
Into Anita Blakes worlda world already overflowing with power come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.
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 Getting worried about this series. October 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Getting worried about this series.
As a reviewer, I try to give a brief rundown of the book so that those who read the review who plan on reading the book get a small inkling of what's going on, to explain what I liked, disliked, etc...
I can't do it this time around. That's how disappointed I am.
While I admit this one was better than Danse Macabre, it wasn't by much. At the beginning, it seems like we're back to the basic form of Anita and her job, Federal Marshall Anita Blake with one, soon to be two, orders of execution. Didn't last long, very much to my dismay.
While I admit I liked the whole `Harlequin' angle, I thought it original enough, it just turned into the same old-same old. Dull to the point of not wanting to continue. Very little in the way of investigation or fact finding. More explanations that could have used fewer words to get to the point. And while I praise that the sex didn't overrule the entire book like it did in Dance Macabre, there was still too much of it, especially the last third of the book. There's got to be a way of feeding the `ardeur' in as close as a manner but not everytime! Good grief! The repetitiveness of it is getting to be too much. I read a discussion earlier where someone posted, and I quote: "I was reading on her blog recently that she no longer was going to feel guilty about so much sex in the stories because some other author pointed out to her that it could be used to progress the story or define the character's relationships with one another." Okay, I'm sorry, but I didn't see any definement between characters. And Richard's same old-same old "unable to accept it" is getting very, very stale. Constantly running away instead of talking it out, of getting anything more out of it, he high-tails it, no pun intended. It's getting old, boring, and repetitive ~ I wanted to jump in the book and give Richard a good thrashing, even if only to ease my frustration.
I do, however, really like how the end of the book came about. More action, something new to think about. *sigh* I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens in Blood Noir. While this novel gives me hope after Danse Macabre, I want to see if the series is headed on a downslide. *shrug*
 Don't bother reading this LAZY AUTHOR! August 9, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I wrote one review for this book but I don't think I successfully got the review inserted correctly...--and I feel so strongly about this review, because this book was so terrible I want readers to be warned .
SAVE your MONEY!! Don't waste it on this book, it is dreadful, trashy, obscene, gross...garbage storytelling.
Do read the first several books in this series but it is downhill from there. I read the first four books in this series and the heroine in the series, Anita Baker is a tough, savvy, independent, intelligent feminist Vampire Executioner--- this book is the 14th or 15th in the series and was just polar opposites in camparison to the heroine in the start of this series.
The heroine in this book is a whore to the vampires, werewolfs, wererats, 20 year old stripper boyfriend who is into S & M etc. she has the heroine living with two of her boyfriends--the author has made the heroine into a sex junky fool. She has the heroine screwing them all --the author has turned this promising heroine into a, porn, energizer-whore-bunny. And what I think is so funny, I think that the author took her personal physical characteristics and created the heroine Anita Blake to resemble herself--(look at early covers of Circus of the Damned and then look at the backcover photo of the author on this book note the likenss to herself)...so maybe this is Ms. Hamilton's twisted, sick fantasies in print but Ms. Hamilton spare the public please and readers save your money.
It is dreadful writing--if I could give this book no stars for a rating then that is what I would choose...or a 1/4 of a star just for accomplishing spelling.
The author needs to quit writing this series as she has lost her 'voice' in this series --what was a promising, satisfying series is now a gross, porn-slop story with no vision.
I will not be reading anymore in this series, my time is more valueable to waste reading a writer who is lazy --she wants to get a book publish and make a quick profit.
Happily, I did not purchase this book I got it from the library.
the COVER was SEXIER than the novel!!! July 27, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
UTTER TRIPE!!!
terribly written and the sex was awful.
i get it...Jean-Claude is french...does he need to call her 'ma petite' every damn line? or is it just that NONE of the male characters or their speech patterns are distinguishable enough from each other that character tags are necessary on every line?
sweetheart...get a new series...read some hardcore erotica, then try sex with beast-men.
 loved it July 24, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Many reader's of this series have become disappointed in the track/ path that series has taken. I have not. If one looks at Anita Blake's "abilities" and considers those, then the series had no choice but take this path. I for one still enjoy it throughly.
 Done July 24, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I first started reading the Anita series I loved it. I liked that Anita was independent, had a career, kicked butt and had tension with the bad boys of the city. I am so sad that she has turned into a whore who just sleeps with the whole city. Gone is the career she had, how she kicked butt and was independent and how she interacted with the police and the people that worked there. I'm not a prude and don't mind good, fun sex in a book, but this is just porn at this point with little plot to drive it. And now, we are back to considering dating Jean Claude and Richard again? (blood noir) Seriously?? Now it's just a re-hash of old plots and some porn. Boring. After 15 books, I'm done with this series. I recommend turning to Patricia Briggs and the Mercy Thompson series or Carrie Vaughn and the Kitty series, who both offer strong, independent women, some romance, a whole lotta trouble and a PLOT!
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