Skin Trade

I have read and enjoyed the whole Anita Blake series. In fact this is actually the sixth time I’ve read the whole series. Every time I get a friend to start reading it U begin the series all over again. I find U really enjoy it again and it helps my friends when we have lunch and they can discuss parts about the story or about Anita Blake they missed or didn’t understand. Anyone reading this review try the series it’s a great/must and enjoyable read. You may read other reviews about Anita Blake saying it turns into to much sex. Hold up people did you not read that she’s a form of succubus, that’s what it means. But the vampire hunting, zombie raising, honor and justice of Anita Blake remains the same. Reading through to the last book you’ll understand the plot and agree with Ms. Hamilton that the story line is strong from beginning to the last book. If in the middle of the series you begin to agree with a few of the reviewers that it’s all about the sex or to much sex, then like them you don’t have what it takes to read A GREAT SERIES, from a GREAT WRITER.

This was amazing
It is one thing to have a family and another to live up to your own potential and become a vital part of that group. Every time I read a book in this series I am left thinking of how privileged it is to be able to find the people we want to love and to find the work that helps us to feel useful. I know these books of fantasy are supposed be only a fun diversion from or life reality but I find this series is healing and possibly that accounts for my being willing to read it more than once. Thank you Laurel K. Hamilton because you put it in a book I have the ability to return year after year whenever I need to feel comfort.

This is by far the worst book of the series no joke….I am so pissed because I feel like I just watched one of my most beloved characters die right before me….make no mistake about it this book for me was the death of Anita Blake. Spoiler Alert!!!! How could Hamilton reduce anita to using just sex to get out of the situation…she really didn’t save the day like she use to she more like fell a part. She did as she was told all the way to the point of giving a BJ by force and the only way to distroy the bad guy was to make him cum. You know what use to make these novels great in the past was their beautiful integration of mystery, drama, romance, and sex…but all of that has been lost now Anita seems confused, tired, and too harshly used for my liking, its not tastefull anymore…I know that im not the only one that felt like her waking up in the room with all those men and no memory was more like rape this time than ever before when she has used those exact same seens. This book was so terrible there is really no way to sum it up coherently anymore there was no progression…There was way too much time spent questioning Anita’s sex life and what the hell is up with her tring to convince the cops to like her and take her seriously!! What made her so great is that she didn’t give a damn!!! what a shame, this loss will never be filled….

Anita is lured to Las Vegas by Vittorio, the serial killer vampire that just slipped away in the last book. I thought that was so Hamilton could build a blockbuster around the rematch. Yeah this firecracker just fizzled then went out. Now Anita has three tiger breeds in her, no four. Please!!! Why not more wolf breeds? Timber, Grey’s, Reds??? Hated this one. All the guys are absent and the men that are just numbers, who we have no investment in.

I really think Miss Hamilton needs a better editor. Too many repeated words, and too much obvious exposition. Too many men asking too many questions for no other purpose than to explain the story, or give Anita a compliment. The main character really has turned into a Mary Sue. The story wasn’t half bad, but execution was simply ok. I used to think Hamilton had a knack for really fun, witty dialogue…now it’s all whiney men and Anita complaining about her issues. I did like her interaction with the Wicked Truth, which makes me think she needs to end the series. I would enjoy a story with just Anita and Jean Claude; that is a bit overdue.

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