I’m finally opening up submissions for this for a while. Thank you to the first person who submitted something! Spread the love of your book.
So I will publish the posts around 2:45 pm ish due to me sleeping after my warehouse job. I get back home around 8 am and need the sleep. I make sure potato chips are good and not burnt.
I fucking love the Anita Blake books….during my travels i like to give my books away so other people can enjoy these books too. These are my remainders, I plan on making sure they spread some swellagent joy to others as well.
Mine is… from Hit List…
“I’m worried you’ll have me killed.”
I have four books within the same distance from me so looks like I’m going to have a varied sex life.
From Ninth Grade Slays: They’re off limits.
From Simon and Schuster’s Handbook for Writers (8th edition): They helped her decide that she wanted to discuss how she learned about a culture other than her own.
From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: I feel really full, don’t you?
From The Laughing Corpse: Manny?
So your books are telling you to sleep with a person from another culture named Manny who is off limits to you?
Thanks for the reblog :D
(Source: forthefamily)
Dispite the many comparisons to Twilight (that horrible fanfiction that makes “My immortal” look good), these books are not the same. The authors are vastly different and have different ways of writing. Where Stephanie Meyer is a Mormon that decided to make Bella a whiny little kid inside of a teenager/mother’s body in all 4 books, Laurell K. Hamilton started to lessen the Mary Sue of Anita Blake.
Anita finally is learning being Bisexual is fine due to the events of Bullet. She’s learning the feedings aren’t just for healing. She is finally breaking out of the role that many think she was going to be in the latest books.
I think why people compare her is because of Jean-Claude and Richard. Later on though this really changes. I mean it took about 5 books or more for Anita to choose Jean-Claude, and after that she was gaining a harem of sexy men any woman could ask for. The bathtub scene has to be the most memorable in my reading history. Wonderful descriptions down to the junk. Did I just say that… ugh.
I have a theory for the fans of either book series. Would you rather read a book series that has sex and is better reading, or read a book about a whiny brat and the movies that it made making vampires worse then what Anne Rice did? (She became a born again christian and disowned those wonderful vampire books she made after said event.)
Anne Rice had wonderful descriptions of Lestat, Louis, and the others. I loved Interview with a Vampire and Queen of the Damned. The movie forms were even better. (Mhhh… Lestat)
I would bet you Twilight fans are just jealous.
I admit the sex is much in Incubus Dreams, but after that it started to have a lessened effect in the book. Once Bullet came out and the sex in that was meaningful like in The Killing Dance, I was happy and wanted to re-read it. Richard wasn’t a bad guy. He was fed up. He wanted Anita to love him.
At this point in the books I would think they fuck every so often.
So can’t we just all get along and read about our vampires and were-creatures? Let’s not focus on the stalker fairies.
Also… Richard breaks a better bed than Edward anyday.
About the Book:In the modern day world, vampires and other paranormal creatures are known. However, in America, vampires are also legal citizens so if you kill a vampire, you may find yourself up on murder charges. Enter Anita Blake. She is an animator (someone who raises the dead), paranormal consultant for the police, and legal executioner for the vampires who get out of line. Recently, there has been a series of vampire murders happening, and Nikolaos, vampire Master of the City, wants Anita to look into these crimes, whether Anita wants to or not…Rating: 9/10I originally started reading the Anita Blake series back in 2000. I have lost track of how many times I have read the series. Personally, I despise where the series has gone and find myself grinding my teeth at the author’s personal attitude, but even with a strong disliking of the author and the progression of Anita Blake, I still find myself loving Guilty Pleasures (and most of the early books).Now, I could rant and rave about where the Anita Blake series has gone, but that’s not what this review is about. I will be focusing on Guilty Pleasures, not the Anita Blake series.
Man that cover… I think when I first read the book they re-did it. I never thought what it looked like before…
A bit more fixing up and it still can work with today’s books. Also this review is wonderful.
First time I read this was with the sexy covers, the one with the stomach. I simply managed to get hold of a first edition (have one of Lunatic Cafe as well). It’s nice to see others liking the retro covers as well. It seems a lot of people are split down the middle with the retro covers. Also, I am really glad you like my book reviews. It brings a smile to my face to see that people are liking them. By the way, almost done with The Laughing Corpse so expect a review in a week (maybe two).
Woot! :D
Hai! The quotes I pull from the book often slow my reading down because I quickly type them on my iPod touch if I have it on hand. Or I write it on my bookmark that I use. I have only resorted to a mini notebook when I have to do some stuff with it at home. I read the books on the bus and some people give me the funniest look.
It’s a book. D:
Why does a book from this author cause many where I live (Washington State) to look at me funny… or in that fact this happened when I lived in California too.
But I do have embarrassing moments. I have left my library copy of the book inside of my classroom in my sophomore history class one day and it was Danse Macabre with the bondage-ish cover, and in my senior year my teacher asked what was going on about the cover of Narcissus in Chains.
Have any people got moments like that when they read the books in public?
Book Review: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series books 1-22
I would’ve loved to have written a review for each Anita Blake book (including the outtake “Beauty”), but I’d started reading them before I decided that I was a writer and I had to write dammit. So I will do my best to try and recap all of these books- because they are such great books- even though when I first started reading them I found them to be just a touch too mature for me. Okay- who was I kidding they were certainly too mature for me seeing as I was about 13 years old, and it was the summer before I moved from being a grade-schooler to becoming a high school freshman; though now I am promptly 17 years old, and 18 is just around the corner- February here I come!
Wait a second… you aren’t the only person that read them at 13 and 14. I did as well. My grandmother hated the idea of them at first, but I instead grabbed a Merry Gentry book to show her the author was good. At first I just read the books to wait inbetween Harry Potter books, but then Anita came into my life and changed that. I wanted every book of her soon. I started out of order (I think I started on the book before The Killing Dance), but still loved everything.
I managed to read the books through both of my high schools and get teachers to wonder about them. My favorite thing about Narcissus in Chains was the fact I didn’t read Twilight or some chick novel for that class assignment. I loved how it was written like you want to know the deaths, although in that book… just wow. XD
From funny looks and a happy teacher my senior year… the books were my way to express myself in life. It helped me in fanfiction. I love the way every character, sex scene, everything is described. I am currently reading Kiss of the Dead (once I find a hardback copy to buy), and happy to say for 7 years the books in my life from this series made me happy to know there’s hope for the vampires in novels.
PS: I’m 21 now.
