Micah (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 13)
by Laurell K. Hamilton
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Author: Laurell K. HamiltonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-28
ISBN: 0515140872
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Jove
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Book Reviews of Micah (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 13)
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Summary: 5 Stars
The titular Micah of the latest entry in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is the nimar-raj (head wereleapord) of a group in which Anita is co-leader. He's also one of Anita's live-in lovers. That's right, I said ONE of her roomies. Our girl has come a long way from the uptight, sexually repressed near-virgin of early books.
Micah will be a welcome relief to many series fans, on a number of counts. To start, the last few Hamilton books have focused so heavily on sex it's largely supplanted plot development. Not so here. Yes, we do have a two-chapter (very well-done, in my opinion) sex scene, and the book is better for it - but that's it. Micah has been much better copy edited than some recent series entries. I only counted two typos in the entire book. There are no gun related errors, a particular pet peeve of mine in the Anita Blake series. Of course, that's because Laurell doesn't actually get into any real discussion of guns, but still....
The worst thing you can say about Micah is there's not much in the way of plot. Anita travels to Philadelphia to raise the zombie of a dead federal witness. Since Anita's become a de facto succubus and needs to have sex three or four times a day, Micah travels with her to supply the appropriate needed services. Not to give away the surprise, but things do not go smoothly on either front. Gasp, shock. That's it for plot. There's none of the involved plotline, the twists and turns and subplots, that normally characterize an Anita Blake novel. Micah is amazingly straightforward, almost spare by comparison.
It's also fairly short. The publishers have gone to a large type and wide line spacing attempting to disguise that fact. If they hadn't, this 245-page "novel" (actually a novella) would have gone about 100 pages. I almost get the feeling Micah was originally conceived as a short story that got away from Laurell a bit length-wise, or maybe it was cut for length from the next book.
Most of Micah (the book) is devoted to Anita's evolving thoughts and attitudes toward her relationships with men in general and Micah in particular. This is the horror novel equivalent of a chick flick. Either that does it for you or it doesn't. Personally I think Laurell Hamilton is at her best when she starts digging inside Anita's head, using that as a device for meditations on love, loyalty, devotion, sex. So for me, it works.
I have to disagree with the assessment of Micah (the character) as "boring" and "the guy we never wanted to learn more about." True, he seemed the least fascinating of Anita's men, but that was mostly because we didn't really know that much about him. This book rectifies that, fleshing out the character, making him much more complex and interesting.
Good news for Anita Blake fans who get a sense of bookus interruptus when Micah ends: a full-length Anita novel, Danse Macabre, is set for June 2006 release. An excerpt is included in Micah, partly I'm sure to pump up the page count. For now, Micah is a welcome return to Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake series in fine form. I read it all in one evening - and not just because it's short - something I haven't done with an Anita book in awhile.
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