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Loading... Blue Moon (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 8)by Laurell K. HamiltonSeries: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter (8)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  bookwormteri | Jan 4, 2010 |  The sixth (I think) vampire porn book, Blue Moon, by Laurell K. Hamilton. It's the kind of story you can read in 30 degree heat while people are talkig around you and still not lose the plot. It's fairly easy: people die/are in trouble, Anita blake fights with JC/the boss/the police who think she should keep out. She gets involved, kills bad people and monsters, endangering a lot of her own. There is a lot of sexual tension, another fight, a sex scene, the villain(s ) are defeated by the enormous and ever growing power of Anita, Jean Claude and Richard (and whatever were animal is close). the end. I can't stand Anita and her attitude. Not in the slightest, and Hamilton's writing style is repetitive and frankly, a bit boring. She always describes what people are wearing like it's really exciting, and seeing someone's manly smooth chest gets Anita all hot and bothered. People always have long flowy hair that covers them like a curtain, except for Richard whose hair surrounds him like a soft cloud. And mostly it sounds like Anita doesn't have a dress sense. A red see through shirt, hello? I have no idea why I keep reading this. But I do. (  ) verenka | Jan 1, 2010 | Anita Blake is back with an ever increasing number of men around her! Richard (her werewolf ex-fiance) has been away studying and has been acused of raping a woman there. Anita runs to his rescue pissing off Jean Claude, but agreeing to take a collection of vampires, werewolves and wereleapords for protection. Going into the territory of a Master Vampire to free Richard from jail is going to cause problems as Colin is interpreting this as an act of aggression and looking to take over his territory. When they get to the jail they are able to post bail for Richard who has been dating a variety of human and were women. It seems he won't have full sex with the human women in case he changes or is too violent, but he is working through his sexual hang ups with the were animals where he doesn't have to hide who or what he is. The sexual tension is still major between him and Anita who never slept together when they were in a relationship. Somehow they find time to get down and dirty between rotting vampires, magic human servants, saving trolls and corrupt policemen. Unfortunately Richard's family get caught up in the action when his brother and mother are kidnapped by the evil Mr Niley and his henchman. Another great and gripping read. Lots of unpleasantness and I cannot stress enough this series is not for the screamish or sensitive! Some rather nasty things happen to Richard's family that don't even bear thinking about, but luckily they make it out ok. Anita's life is so complicated with her many many men, but it looks like she has finally found a mentor who can help her regain some control. I'm looking forward to the next in the series, although popular opinion is they go a bit downhill from here for a while. (  )1  Rhinoa | Apr 29, 2009 | Even though its set outside of Saint Louis, this is one of my favourite A.B books. (  ) seane | Jan 17, 2009 | I picked up Blue Moon not knowing it was book 5 or 6 from her Anita Blake series so it seemed disjointed. I would recommend starting with the first book, Guilty Pleasures so you become familiar with the characters she picks up along the way. I initially didn't care for Blue Moon, but I picked up Lunatic Cafe and got a better understanding of how all of her characters fit into her life and started to like Anita much more. I then went and read all the Anita Blake books from the beginning. Hamilton obviously is working through some serious sexual issues in her own life because Anita becomes a walking vagina by the six or seventh book in the - seriously filthy. Hamilton introduces readers to the 'arduer' to explain why Anita's character suddenly becomes a nympho. I'm not bothered by sex in a novel -I just think Hamilton could have reigned in the arduer a bit more. In Blue Moon Anita has a very puritanical nature and her character often states that she 'doesn't do casual sex', and the next thing you know she doing the football, basketball and baseball teams simultaneously. If the ardeur is not fed, then she will die or go mad. Whatever. Still, I do enjoy the love triangle between Anita, Jean Claude and Richard. I wish she would stick to the that threesome as the core of her novels. I initially wanted Anita to be with Richard, whose a werewolf and not Jean Claude, the sort of femy vampire. I found Richard in the beginning books to be sexy and relatively normal, but Hamilton eventually makes Richard into an annoying, uptight self-loathing A-hole and I ended up wishing that Anita/Hamilton would just commit to one team -any team (Richard/Jean-Claude, Micha/Nathaniel, Jean-Claude/Asher, Damian/Anita or Jason/Anita). Anyhoo, the series is fun and when Hamilton sticks to Vamps, Werewolf's and Anita raising the dead to testify, the books are a fun read. (  ) belljargurl | Oct 22, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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In Blue Moon, Anita's ex Richard is jailed in Tennessee, accused of rape. When Anita arrives with a lawyer and an entourage of vampires and 'weres' supplied by Jean-Claude, it's clear that something is rotten in Myerton. The local cops are corrupt, and the trolls Richard was studying are threatened. But if she sticks around to investigate, the local Master vampire will attack her and her friends. The local werewolf clan isn't rushing to welcome her either, and her self-control is going to the, um, wolves.
Blue Moon is the eighth book in Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series; newcomers should start with earlier books. The protagonists' development and their relationships to each other and to the large cast of continuing secondary characters are what make these books so compelling. Be warned--there's steamy sex and graphic violence here, though Anita does reflect on her moral position. But if dark urban fantasy featuring those who hunt the night appeals, pounce on this series. --Nona Vero
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Excellent! Richard and Anita become closer. Anita comes closer to her personal breaking point. For the most part, this book is Jean-Claude-less, and I loved it. (