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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 MP3-CD
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  270 reviews
Sales Rank: 542900
Format: Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged
Media: MP3 CD
Edition: MP3 Una
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1597378976
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781597378970
ASIN: 1597378976
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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 Laurell K Hamilton went back to her old formula!! August 21, 2008
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.
Cynthia Holloway provides a moving, absorbing and charged reading August 18, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Cynthia Holloway provides a moving, absorbing and charged reading to another Anita Blake vampire hunter/werewolf novel: this revolving around Jason, her best friend and sometimes-lover whose father is dying on the same weekend as an ancient vampire decides to make her move, cutting the connection which ties Anita with Jean-Claude. An outstanding vampire novel evolves with many unpredictable twists and turns perfect for general lending libraries.
 Trust the author August 18, 2008
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have to disagree with most of the other reviewers for this book. While it clearly isn't up to some of LKH's better Anita Blake books, it moves the series forward...there's an explanation (of sorts) for what has been happening between Anita and Richard (or rather, what hasn't been happening). There's also a return to the idea of Anita acting more like J-C's servant and less like a sexualized loose cannon.
That being said, if you don't trust that LKH has a plan, then just quit reading the series and leave it at that. We've all known that Anita is a stand in for LKH. If you aren't comfortable with what she's doing and working out, then stop reading. But don't keep reading and keep complaining. Authors are human too, and while LKH probably needs more people helping her edit, the emotions and growth that she is exploring is real. If that makes you queasy, then don't read...don't buy another book. But if you believe that there is something building, it's worth it to keep up.
I really wonder how much of the last couple of books were pressure from her publisher rather than fully developed stories. That happens, unfortunately, and especially to very popular authors.
Overall, it was a worthwhile read...I enjoyed it.
 Oh no, not ANOTHER one! August 11, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Like so many other Anita Blake fans, I have grown steadily disillusioned with the series, which took a definite nosedive with Obsidian Butterfly. I am so not a prude, but sex just for the sake of writing in a sex scene doesn't cut it after the 4000th time. I really need some plot, some character development and lack of repetition to go along with the steamy stuff. And I would LOVE to have an intimate scene, limited to one or two "people", like the early, wonderful scenes with Richard and Jean-Claude. I'm not sure what's going through Miss Hamilton's mind except trying to rake in the dough. IMO, save your money and borrow the books from the library -- you'll save yourself the clutter and the wasted money, and support a great institution like the Public Library System. It's really sad when a beloved series goes bad. (I'd also recommend saving your hard-earned money on the other LKH series, too. Blech.)
 Slight reprieve? August 11, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
A "little" less concentration on sex for its own sake than in the last few, but it appears that Hamilton will never get back to the plot-driven wonderfulness of the first 8-9 novels. From now on I'll stop buying, and read any further installments from the library. Zombie-raising and vampire-hunting are now apparently history. There's no question that the biggest mistake Hamilton ever made with this series was the invention of the "ardeur." It's led her off on a sex-for-no-damn-plot-reason-at-all tangent that's left most of her fans walking away in disgust. I always thought that she created the parallel Princess Merrie series just to get all of the sex writing out of her system, to keep it from bleeding into Anita Blake stories. Fat chance! Now it appears sex is all she wants to write anymore.
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