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Blood Noir (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter) (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter) | 
 enlarge | Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Creator: Cynthia Holloway
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  275 reviews
Sales Rank: 1771453
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, Cd
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Abridged
Number Of Items: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 1597379018
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781597379014
ASIN: 1597379018
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
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Product Description
Jason Schuyler is a werewolf. He’s also one of Anita Blake’s best friends, and sometimes her lover. And right now he needs her – not to be a vampire hunter, or a federal marshal, or a necromancer, or even for her rank in the werewolf pack, but because his father is dying. He needs Anita because she’s a pretty woman who loves him, who can make him look like an everyday guy, who agrees to go home with him and help him say good-bye to the abusive father he never loved. The fact that Jason is about as much an everyday guy as Anita is a pretty woman is something they figure they can keep under wraps for a couple of days in a small town. How hard can that be?
Really, by now, Anita Blake should know better.
Marmee Noir, ancient mother of all vampires, picks this weekend to make a move. Somehow she has cut the connection that binds Anita and Jean-Claude, leaving Jean-Claude unable to sense what is happening. Dangerous even as she sleeps, buried in darkness for a thousand years somewhere beneath the old country of Europe, Marmee Noir reaches out toward power. She has attacked Anita before, but never like this. In Anita she senses what she needs to make her enemies tremble…
“What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.” – USA Today
“[A] wildly popular paranormal series.” – Entertainment Weekly
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 I wished it was abridged August 26, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
One of the worst books that I have read in a long time. I was a big fan of her early books and gave up on the series a few books ago. Lacking anything better to read I picked this one up and found it to be the worst one yet. Marmee wasn't scary because all she did was give Anita an excuse to screw more men and the other bad guys didn't enter the story until nearly the end. In other words very little action.
I have never read this series for the sex, I enjoyed the action. It was nice to see a strong female character. Anita is no longer strong, just sex starved.
 3 Stars!! August 23, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm surprised that I am giving this book 3 stars because there are so many 1 starred reviews. But there are parts of this book that I enjoyed.
I think the most enjoyable part for me was the fact that one of my favorite and one of the earlier characters of the series, Jason was present throughout the book. I for one have gotten tired of all the new men. I can't even remember their species or their names anymore. I thought the chapters with Richard were pretty good. I am not a fan who is pro Richard or pro Jean Claude. I like them both and I like Micah too. I really enjoy the interaction between Anita and Richard in this book. Also a quip Richard made,(bottom of page 239) was for me very funny.
What didn't I like about the book? At the beginning of the book Jason was a little too cry babyish and that they jumped right into a sex scene that I thought a little raunchy. I was uncomfortable with what happened during Anita's 2 day blackout. Also I do not like all the affects to Anita and friends from Belle Mort and now Marmee Noir that have been happening in the books since Narcissus. With the ARDEUR there is no reason for the author not to try any erotic idea that she finds in her "adult closet".
As has become my habit since I.D. I borrowed this book and will continue to do so. Why keep reading them? Because I do love and wish to keep up with the characters from books 1 - 10. And I'm hoping that LKH will stop writing erotica. One can always hope!
 Only the last chapter is worthy August 22, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I gave it 2 stars for the last 75 or so pages where Ms. Blake had to rely on her brains. The previous hundreds of pages were tedious beyond belief. Enough with the relationship rehashing and coddling the egos of the men in her life. It's like listening to break-up story over and over again.
One word: PLOT. Always go with plot. Otherwise, it's beginning to read like a bad Dr. Phil episode.
 Laurell K Hamilton went back to her old formula!! August 21, 2008
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
For the past 2 years or so, Laurell K Hamilton has been taking Anita to places she shouldn't be going. Her first books were wonderful. She strayed from the winning formula. In The Harlequin, she started putting it all back together again. In Blood Noir, she succeeded in getting Anita back on track.
I really enjoyed this book!! If you enjoyed the first 10 or so, you will enjoy this book. I am not disappointed. I refuse to tell the plot or "ruin" the book for any of the other readers.
I can't wait until the new one comes out. I am also an avid fan of the Merideth Gentry series.
Waste of a good title August 20, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am insulted that I had to pay top dollar for a hardcover copy of a "filler" book that was nothing more than a fluffed up novella. A more appropriate title would have been "Jason," in keeping with the previously published filler book, "Micah." The plot is idiotic: his family is o.k. with Jason being a lunarly challenged male stripper, but NOT o.k. with his being gay...which he is not? Huh? In rides Anita to the rescue, offering to pose as Jason's girlfriend - this is contrived, even for fiction. It's not like Jason needed Anita to convince anyone that he's straight, since he was hitting on every female member of the bridal party, most of whom it seems he "knew" (as in the biblical sense) in high school. And then we had Richard's brief cameo near the end of the book where he appeared merely acting as a were-messenger, a job any other character could have covered. Gee, I hope this wasn't a school day. I love Hamilton's books, but after reading Bloody Noir Not, I have to wonder whether she's out of ideas, out of money, her editor held a gun to her head, or if she has started believing her own press releases. Lucky for her there wasn't a money back guarantee with this book.
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