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Title: The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton ISBN: 0-515-13444-9 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (88 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: It's fun !!!
Comment: "The Laughing Corpse", the 2nd book in Hamilton's "Anita Blake, vampire Hunter" series, is quite a good sequel to "Guilty pleasures". It is certainly not great literature, but it allows you to have lots of fun and doesn't ask you to think a lot. And if you are tired (of working at the office or at home, or of studying), that can be quite helpful.
Here we meet Anita again, and we also get to see her quite strange friends and her aspiring boyfriend, Jean Claude (a really handsome man of 400 years who has only one big defect: he is a vampire, so he is dead).
The plot is good and catches the reader's imagination (a BIG IMAGINATION is highly necessary to enjoy this kind of book). Anita Blake, who is not only a vampire slayer (legally, of course) but also a necromancer, is offered a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Despite the big amount of money (and the protests of her boss), she declines the offer, because she knows that to raise such an old zombie she would need a human sacrifice (and that is a crime, even in the future when this books takes place). Her "would be client" (Mr. Gaynor) doesn't like it, but has to accept it. The problem is that some really strange murders start to happen, and Anita, who helps the police as a preternatural expert, thinks they are comitted by a crazy zombie. Could somebody else have raised Gaynor's zombie, losing control of it?. That is the question that Anita will try to answer, while she runs into the most strange people, including Dominga Salvador, a powerful voodoo priestess (who later, of course, tries to kill her).
"The Laughing Corpse" is a very good book, that brings you a lot of fun and takes you into a world where vampires and werewolfs are also legal citizens. Sometimes it's kind of absurd, but this is the kind of absurdity that makes you grin. So, if you read it, HAVE A GOOD TIME !!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: Ever wonder what the United States would be like with vampires and shapshifters? Where vampires are treated as living people and a person could be tried for murder when they staked the undead. Where the disease known as lycanthropy can make a regular person howl viciouly at the full moon and crave warm human flesh. And a woman known as an animator makes a living off of raising the dead...as in zombies. If you've ever wondered if the supernatural could be natural then I would encourage you to read this book and the other books of the Anita Blake series. Especially those who love blood, guts, gore, and a heroine who's tough enough to take on the whole supernatural world that Laurell K. Hamilton has created.
Rating: 5
Summary: I stand corrected!
Comment: After reading the first book in this series, "Guilty Pleasures", I decided that Hamilton was a good writer, but that if somebody wanted to read novels about vampires they should try Anne Rice first. Now that I have read the second book in the series I realize that Hamilton is clearly among the best in the genre.
Anita Blake has a job unlike anyone else, she is an animator and vampire slayer. Therefore, she raises the dead and executes vampires that have broken the law (vampirism on itself is legal in USA). Anita's physical appearance is peculiar considering her job; her height is five foot three inches and she weighs a hundred and six pounds! She also has a black belt in judo and has been marked twice by the master vampire of the city, Jean Claude, who is in love with her.
In this installment of the series, Anita is offered one million dollars, by one of the most wealthy and powerful men in the city, to raise a two-hundred-and-eighty-three-year-old zombie; task that requires a human sacrifice. After she denies doing this, half of her problems begin. The other half has to do with the gruesome murder of a couple and the disappearance of their child. It is clear that the murderer is not human, but...is it a vampire, ghoul, zombie? Anita sets out to help the police in their investigation and ends up requesting the assistance of Señora Salvador, the most powerful voodoo priestess in the Midwest.
The different story lines come together to make a highly entertaining book. For those who have read the first book in the series you will also get a glimpse of some further aspects of Anita's past, like information about her mother and grandmother and some "secrets" about her tutor during her first steps as an animator. The action is fast-paced and Anita usually refreshes the mood with witty jokes and comments in situations that are definitely gruesome.
I really cannot wait to read the next book in the series, "Circus of the Damned".
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Title: The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton ISBN: 051513452X Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton ISBN: 0515134465 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton ISBN: 0515134511 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton ISBN: 051513449X Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Burnt Offerings by Laurell K. Hamilton ISBN: 0515134473 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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