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Title: Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton ISBN: 0-515-13450-3 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (243 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fast-paced romantic mystery/horror story
Comment: Obsidian Butterfly is one of those books you pick up and can't put back down until it's over, and even then with much regret. Laurell Hamilton knows how to keep her readers turning the pages. For those new to the Anita Blake series, here's a quick overview: The setting is present-day America, and the heroine is Anita Blake, the tough, sexy, and smart vampire executioner. She raises the dead for a living, quite legally, for such purposes as settling will disputes. Vampires and werewolves (aka lycanthropes) are legal citizens, only to be killed if they commit a crime. Anita actually has both a vampire lover, Jean Claude, and a werewolf boyfriend, Richard.
In Obsidian Butterfly, Anita leaves her hometown of St Louis to pay back a favor to her friend Edward, who is an assassin. He needs her help solving a string of murders, which were likely committed by something non-human. They team up with the local cops, the FBI, and Edward's mysterious accomplices to find the monster before it can mutilate yet another helpless family.
I would recommend this book to all fans of the Anita Blake series, even if many of the usual main characters are missing. You learn more about Edward and Anita, as well as the nature of her bond to "the boys".
It also goes well alone, precisely because there are not so many pre-introduced characters.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes a smart, well-written plot that is a combination of horror, suspense, and mystery with a little romance mixed in. Anita's constant sarcastic thoughts and witty comments keep the mood light throughout the story. The characters are extremely well-developed and draw you into their world of magic, witchcraft and a constant good vs evil battle that will keep you turning pages all night.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sometimes Something Graphic is Needed
Comment: I loved this latest installment in the Anita Blake Series. I read the comment of the person who returned this book and I hope you will not let this turn you away. The scene that he is talking about plays a very important role in the novel; it provides the motivation for Anita, Edward and the gang to extract the children from the bad guys. And don't forget that this is a horror novel. Is murder any less horrible than a child being hurt? Laurell Hamilton writes a "real" story. It is set in an alternate history so there are vampires but the evil that goes on in the real world is portrayed by Mrs. Hamilton. The bad guys are BAD and innocent people get hurt and who can believe it people actually have sex. This novel does not have the graphic sex of the last two novels but why does Anita have to be chaste to kill vampires?
I am finally glad to see an author who can create really true character set in the real world; instead of sexless heroes who kill the bad guy, sleep alone and disappear in the crowd of heroes just like them.
Rating: 5
Summary: I adore this one!
Comment: This is my favorite book of the series. The action and detail are outstanding. Anita's moral dilema, accompanied by a perplexing mystery and disgusting murders, make this book very absorbing.
It's not for the faint of heart however, so be carefull. Some of the scenes, one in particular involving children, are very disturbing.
All in all a good read.
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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: 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: Cerulean Sins: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel by Laurell K. Hamilton ISBN: 0425188361 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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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: A Kiss of Shadows by LAURELL K. HAMILTON ISBN: 0345423402 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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