Flirt (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 18)
by Laurell K. Hamilton
List Price:
Our Price: $2.70
You Save: $21.25 (89%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.99 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Laurell K. HamiltonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2010-02-02
ISBN: 042523567X
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
Book Reviews of Flirt (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 18)
Book Review: An Involuntary Raising
Summary: 5 Stars
Flirt (2010) is the eighteenth Fantasy novel in the Anita Blake series, following Skin Trade. In the previous volume, Vittorio overwhelmed ten other vampires and set up a trap for Anita. Edward broke up that plan and Anita convinced the Governor to commute the sentence of the other vampires.
Vittorio fed off the ardeur of Anita and then went off to take Max and Bibiani captive. Anita walked into the trap and played Vittorio's game. Rocco spoke an Arabic phrase and Anita zapped Vittorio with her ardeur.
In this novel, Anita Blake is a US Marshal in the Preternatural Branch. The vampires call her the Executioner. She is also a necromancer at Animators Inc. as well as the human servant of the vampire Master of the City of Saint Louis.
Nathaniel Graison is a wereleopard and Anita's lover.
Jason Schuyler is a werewolf and a friend of Anita. He is also Nathaniel's best friend.
Micah Callahan is the Nimir-Raj the local wereleopards and Anita's lover.
In this story, Tony Bennington asks Anita to raise his wife from the dead. She asks his purpose in doing so and he avoids the question. After a while, Anita understands that he wants her to raise Ilse permanently.
Anita knows that such animation is not possible and tries to talk him out of the idea. He keeps trying to persuade her. Finally, she just tells him no and escorts him out of her office.
Then Anita goes to lunch with Jason, Nathaniel and Micah. Jason starts flirting with the waiter and Anita tries the same moves. The waiter loses control of his speech at first and then hangs around the table providing small services.
Later Anita has a client who wants to animate her husband just so she can chop him to pieces with an axe. Every time Anita says no, the woman just raises the offer. Finally, Anita gets her out of the office.
Then Anita goes back to the same restaurant by herself. The waiter remembers her and tries a come on. Anita smiles back and he gives her the best service possible.
When she is waiting for the check, a werelion comes to her table. She draws her Browning and points it under the table at his nether regions. Then the waiter comes back with the check and another werelion follows him with a drawn gun.
Anita manages to get the waiter away from the table, but the scenario is still too deadly for the other people in the restaurant. She lets the pair take her out to the car, where they frisk her.
Anita's lioness is aroused by the smell of werelions. During the frisk, the power of the lioness makes the searcher miss the big knife on her back. Both werelions are aroused by her power and it continues to bother them while they drive her to their client.
The werelions make clear that they are threatening Micah, Jason and Nathaniel. So Anita keeps her cool as much as she can to protect her loved ones. It also makes her more dangerous to the werelions, but they don't know that.
This tale not only brings out the werelion within Anita, but it also arouses the blood thirst and the ardeur. The werelions are tormented by her powers. They become thoroughly sorry that they took on the job.
The story includes an Introduction where the author promises to inform the reader about the origin of the story. After the story itself, she does explain how the story sunk its claws into her psyche and stole time from another story. At the very end of the book, she includes comic strips that show another side of the original incident.
This novel is one of the shortest in the Anita Blake series. It is also a rather linear storyline. It is short and to the point.
This story is a digression from the schedule. The next installment in this series is Bullet. Read and enjoy!
Highly recommended for Hamilton fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of were creatures, arrogant and ignorant humans, and a determined woman with preternatural powers. If anyone has not previously read this series, the initial volume is Guilty Pleasures.
-Arthur W. Jordin
Summary of Flirt (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 18)
Anita Blake has been asked to raise the dead-but the results aren't going to make everybody happy...
Literature & Fiction Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Literature & Fiction Books
Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott
Scribner; Published: 1986-06-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.49
Price in other shops:
The Killing Groundby JACK HIGGINS
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LTD; Published: 2007; Hardcover; Book
Saving Fish from Drowningby Amy Tan
4th Estate; Published: 2005; Paperback; Book
Life Expectancyby Dean Koontz
Harpercollins Pb; Published: 2005-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.00
Constant Princessby Philippa Gregory
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster; Published: 2005; Hardcover; Book
Wolf of the Plains (Conqueror, Book 1)by Conn Iggulden
Harper; Published: 2007; Paperback; Book
Saharaby Clive Cussler
Harper Collins Pb; Published: 2005-03-21; Paperback; Book
Perelandra (Cosmic Trilogy)by C. S. Lewis
Voyager; Published: 2005-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.70
Price in other shops:
The Lord Of The Rings: Part 2 The Two Towersby J. R. R. Tolkien
Harper Collins Publishers; Published: 2001; Paperback; Book
Red Marsby Kim Stanley Robinson
Trafalgar Square; Published: 2001-06; Paperback; Book
Similar Books and other products
Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)by Laurell K. Hamilton
Jove; Published: 2010-05-25; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.24
Price in other shops:
Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 17)by Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley Hardcover; Published: 2009-06-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $1.79
Price in other shops:
Micah (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 13)by Laurell K. Hamilton
Jove; Published: 2006-02-28; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.25
Price in other shops:
Bullet (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)by Laurell K. Hamilton
Jove; Published: 2011-05-31; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.39
Price in other shops:
Danse Macabreby Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley Books; Published: 2006-06-27; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.39
Price in other shops:
The Harlequin (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 15)by Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley Hardcover; Published: 2007-06-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.14
Price in other shops:
Hit List (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 20)by Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley Hardcover; Published: 2011-06-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.98
Price in other shops:
Bullet (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)by Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley Hardcover; Published: 2010-06-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.25
Price in other shops:
Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 16)by Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley Hardcover; Published: 2008-05-27; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $1.39
Price in other shops:
Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 17)by Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley Hardcover; Published: 2009-06-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.50
Price in other shops: