Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) by Laurell K. Hamilton
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Book Reviews of Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)
Book Review: Not as bad as some others
Summary: 3 Stars
I've just finished Blood Noir and yes it does once again follow her old habits of introducing a plot point which could be good. For example the Harlequin started out with a good plot or what could have been a good plot if she would have wrote about it instead of Anita constantly having sex. Sex sells. We get it. We all know it. What started out as a series for serious readers of the genre has become watered down wereanimals, vampires and horny humans have sex. Anita is now somehow all powerful. She has sex with weretigers! Woohoo evidently one was not enough for the arduer. Richard shows up and whines and moans about how much he loves her. Every book has him showing up to save the day and then cry about how she is the only one for him. I have to admit though I like it when Anita leaves town and is confined to having sex with fewer males. Since most of these males are interchangeable it is easier to follow a storyline. I will state what I have said in previous reviews LKH needs to kill off some of the deadweight characters. Men who should get killed off: Requiem, Wicked, Truth, Byron, Nathaniel, Jason, London, and many more. Also she has developed the habit of adding some of the more interesting things at the end of the book and makes those points better than the book as a whole.Book Review: Props Must Be Given to the Genre Creator Even Though....
Summary: 3 Stars
she seems to have lost her way or an editor or had a nearly fatal attack of hubris. Urban paranormals really start with LKH. Remembering first reading "Guilty Pleasures" was a phenomenal experience to find someone that saw the world through the same skewed vision. Then, as we all know, things got very bad. Personal issues that needed therapy became entire books bought by an unsuspecting public. But as I was "slogging" through this one--everynow and then a peak of the fabulous writer/world builder/character designer that has always been LKH would come through. Sure she lost the plot for 80% of the book. Sure the ardeur is a worhtless excuse--but when she works with Nathaniel or Jason--there is a heart there so frequently missing from her more recent work. OK. She's got me back on board. Am I afraid of the waste of time and money even "pleasant" thoughts. Yep. But I"m only a cock-eyed optimist and I still want to believe.Book Review: Anita Vamire Hunter? Don't think so
Summary: 3 Stars
I have read all the Vampire books from number one and have to say that this one should be rated "X". No more is there any kind of problem for either Anita or Edward to do anything about. Just sex sex sex. Kind of got really tired of it about the 11th book on forward. Just kept hopeing for better. Laurell Hamilton can write but I think she's run out of problems for our vampire hunter which is too bad what with all the people she has brought into it. I do wish that she would get back into the reasons there are Vampire hunters or people bringing back the dead or shapeshifters or or. As you can see, there are other places to go besides the bedroom? To bad.Book Review: Just okay, had some problems...
Summary: 3 Stars
This one was just okay - the plot was not as realistic as it could've been, characterization is becoming more shallow with each book, and the repetitive themes are getting almost too annoying for me to overlook. The contradiction in Anita's behavior and "morals", as well as her double-standards for her versus her lovers, are becoming even more blatant than in previous books. That said, I still read it to the end, and didn't regret the time spent on it too much, so it gets 3 stars from me.Book Review: Improving
Summary: 3 Stars
I've been reading the decline of this series but kept hoping it would get better. To be honest I stopped reading after the first chapter and didn't pick it up till a few days later. I was surprised. Its better than her books have been in a long while, my biggest complaint is that the ending was way too rushed. I would've happily spent more time reading it if it had a ending that was written better.