The Harlequin (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) | 
 enlarge | Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher: Jove
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 12448
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0515144614
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780515144611
ASIN: 0515144614
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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Product Description
The 15th Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel now in paperback
Into Anita Blakes worlda world already overflowing with power come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.
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 Don't bother reading this LAZY AUTHOR! August 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I wrote one review for this book but I don't think I successfully got the review inserted correctly...--and I feel so strongly about this review, because this book was so terrible I want readers to be warned .
SAVE your MONEY!! Don't waste it on this book, it is dreadful, trashy, obscene, gross...garbage storytelling.
Do read the first several books in this series but it is downhill from there. I read the first four books in this series and the heroine in the series, Anita Baker is a tough, savvy, independent, intelligent feminist Vampire Executioner--- this book is the 14th or 15th in the series and was just polar opposites in camparison to the heroine in the start of this series.
The heroine in this book is a whore to the vampires, werewolfs, wererats, 20 year old stripper boyfriend who is into S & M etc. she has the heroine living with two of her boyfriends--the author has made the heroine into a sex junky fool. She has the heroine screwing them all --the author has turned this promising heroine into a, porn, energizer-whore-bunny. And what I think is so funny, I think that the author took her personal physical characteristics and created the heroine Anita Blake to resemble herself--(look at early covers of Circus of the Damned and then look at the backcover photo of the author on this book note the likenss to herself)...so maybe this is Ms. Hamilton's twisted, sick fantasies in print but Ms. Hamilton spare the public please and readers save your money.
It is dreadful writing--if I could give this book no stars for a rating then that is what I would choose...or a 1/4 of a star just for accomplishing spelling.
The author needs to quit writing this series as she has lost her 'voice' in this series --what was a promising, satisfying series is now a gross, porn-slop story with no vision.
I will not be reading anymore in this series, my time is more valueable to waste reading a writer who is lazy --she wants to get a book publish and make a quick profit.
Happily, I did not purchase this book I got it from the library.
the COVER was SEXIER than the novel!!! July 27, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
UTTER TRIPE!!!
terribly written and the sex was awful.
i get it...Jean-Claude is french...does he need to call her 'ma petite' every damn line? or is it just that NONE of the male characters or their speech patterns are distinguishable enough from each other that character tags are necessary on every line?
sweetheart...get a new series...read some hardcore erotica, then try sex with beast-men.
 loved it July 24, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Many reader's of this series have become disappointed in the track/ path that series has taken. I have not. If one looks at Anita Blake's "abilities" and considers those, then the series had no choice but take this path. I for one still enjoy it throughly.
 Done July 24, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I first started reading the Anita series I loved it. I liked that Anita was independent, had a career, kicked butt and had tension with the bad boys of the city. I am so sad that she has turned into a whore who just sleeps with the whole city. Gone is the career she had, how she kicked butt and was independent and how she interacted with the police and the people that worked there. I'm not a prude and don't mind good, fun sex in a book, but this is just porn at this point with little plot to drive it. And now, we are back to considering dating Jean Claude and Richard again? (blood noir) Seriously?? Now it's just a re-hash of old plots and some porn. Boring. After 15 books, I'm done with this series. I recommend turning to Patricia Briggs and the Mercy Thompson series or Carrie Vaughn and the Kitty series, who both offer strong, independent women, some romance, a whole lotta trouble and a PLOT!
I think it's time to admit defeat..... July 13, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
And stop reading this series....
When you find that you HATE all of the characters in a book....it might be time to let it go.
I really wanted Richard to die....
I wanted Jean-Claude to shut up or just never wake....
And Anita to keep her clothes on or atleast tell atleast one creature/man no thanks...
Will this series ever get back to good old fashion kick butt vampire hunting and killing....nope. It seems the author is a bit kinky and wants to prove just how kinky by messing up one of the most dynamic characters to hit the literary scenes in recent years....
Too bad....I give up.
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