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Cerulean Sins by Laurell K. Hamilton
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Cerulean Sins

by Laurell K. Hamilton

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I still like these books, but like I said about the last ones, they're starting to contain a bit too much sex. With this book, it seemed like the first 100 pages or so was Anita moving from one sexual scene to another. I think the series lost something when Hamilton saddled Anita with this supernatural sexual appetite that has to be satisfied (or what, I don't really know).

Maybe I'll understand more when I read the one I've skipped, Narcissus in Chains. Don't have that one yet. I also skipped over book #9, but that was actually the first one in the series that I read, which happened to take place during a time when she's not really having *any* sex at all.

I'll continue to read the series, I just hope that Hamilton recaptures some of the formula that made the first 6 books or so of the series so great. ( )
miyurose | Dec 13, 2008 |  
The Anita Blake series has a bit of a reputation for morphing into pornography as the series goes on. I think that's a little unfair. It's a series about vampires, after all - what did you expect? This book is heavy on vampire politics, which is okay by me; however I would prefer it if Ms Hamilton didn't bookend the politics with an equally interesting detective story reminiscent of the earlier books in the series - please do one thing or the other. ( )
pauliharman | Oct 1, 2008 |  
Anita Blake started this series as a really great heroine - I don't know what is happening to her. The other characters are still good but again, the plot is somewhat lacking. ( )
susanbevans | Aug 21, 2008 |  
A good action series has become a poor erotica series. So poor that I'd almost call it porn. ( )
TadAD | May 27, 2008 |  
Good beginning. Good end. Too much sex in the middle. ( )
storming | Mar 7, 2008 |  
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To J., who says yes more than he says no; who never makes me feel like a freak, and who came up with the title for this book.
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It was early September, a busy time of year for raising the dead.
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0515136816, Paperback)

Laurell K. Hamilton's legions of eager fans will be pleased to see Cerulean Sins), the eleventh novel in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, which is set on an alternate Earth where magic works and vampires and werewolves are real. When a sinister stranger tries to hire the magically potent Anita Blake to raise the dead, she finds herself embroiled in the search for a vicious, supernatural serial killer, and also in the clandestine international politics of the vampires. And as she becomes more deeply enmeshed in cruel plots and counterplots, her tangled personal life only becomes more demanding, more wrenching, and more erotically fraught.

With ten previous books in the Anita Blake series, Cerulean Sins is not the place to start. Though author Hamilton artfully reveals the backstory in small doses, the numerous returning characters and the complex history will overwhelm most newcomers (and even the most devoted fans may find that the backfilling slows the pace). Also, the characters frequently stand around talking and psychoanalyzing one another, which makes for static stretches unlikely to hold a new reader's attention. Newcomers should start with the first book, Guilty Pleasures. --Cynthia Ward

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