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The Bargain Nexus - Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 16)
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List Price: $25.95
Our Price: $10.98
Your Save: $ 14.97 ( 58% )
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Manufacturer: Berkley Hardcover
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425222195
ISBN: 0425222195
Label: Berkley Hardcover
Manufacturer: Berkley Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2008-05-27
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
Studio: Berkley Hardcover
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: The downward spiral continues.. breaking point?
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: 1 Star is too good
Comment: 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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Summary: Hoping for better in the next one
Comment: I'm a huge fan of the series, but I've been disappointed in the last few books, and this one in particular. I agree with at least one other reviewer -- this should have been a novella, but instead it got stretched into a full book with the addition of a lot of sex. Or it should have been called "Jason" (akin to the "Micah" book), and had even more depth about Jason's history and character development.
I hope LKH can turn this trend around. Anyone can get fatigued (after 16 Anita books, who can blame her?), and I'm willing to wait a little longer for the next one in the series if it means a better book.
I love that LKH pushes sexual boundaries. But the last couple of books have seemed like nothing more than sex -- it has become both the primary problem Anita is dealing with, and the solution to everything, and the overall stories have suffered because of it. I miss the crime solving and paranormal mysteries that characterized the Anita books in the past.
I'll always give a new LKH Anita book a chance. But in the meantime I'll also be on the lookout for a new series to give my attention.
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Summary: love it
Comment: i like this book because i really love jasons charter and i wanted to learn more about him. but i do kind of get what the other people are saying about the series about the whole sex thing it getting a little boring but whatever i dont really care i still love these books and will continue to reado both of her series.
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Summary: The stories have changed, but they're not bad!
Comment: Ok, so I've read EVERY single book that LKH has written. Yes, her stories have changed to become a lot more about sex (a little ironic especially for the Anita Blake series since Anita started off as Ms. Chastity Belt). Still, it doesn't make the stories bad. That being said, I like romance novels and also like the steamy sex scenes (gotta get my fix somewhere, right?). But for the male audience out there that reads these books, I suppose I can see why they would be so terribly upset by this. The series certainly started out much differently... so much more so that as we all know, Marvel Comics picked up the books as comics. These later books... probably from the 5th or 6th onward, aren't really appropriate for comic books at all. To remove the sexual charged scenes would leave not much left for the comics.
Anyway, I think all of you critics out there need to chill. These novels are NOT labeled as "action" or "adventure". Sure, they have some of that... but the reality is that they are and have always been classified as paranormal romance novels! Gee, why would a ROMANCE NOVEL have a lot of steamy sex scenes? Get over it and go buy a Stephen King novel if you don't want the hot and bothered variety. Duh.
LKH- keep up the good work! Your true fans still love ya! :-)
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Editorial Reviews:
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Readers can’t get enough of the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blake’s werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean- Claude’s reign—and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen’s new rise to power.
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