Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)
by Laurell K. Hamilton
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Author: Laurell K. HamiltonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-26
ISBN: 0515146374
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Jove
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- ISBN13: 9780515146370
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Book Reviews of Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)
Book Review: and I thought the series was rebounding..sigh
Summary: 2 Stars
After reading Harlequin I thought the series was about to pick up again. I actually enjoyed Harlequin alot. Sex wasn't the driving force behind the book and there was an actual plot..a plot with bad guys...bad guy vampires no less! I was hopeful...then I read Blood Noir
This book is reminiscent of Micah. Anita and one of her many bed mates take a road trip. This time it's Anita flying out to Jason's home town in an attempt to make peace between Jason and his father. His father's been under the impression that Jason is gay, and Anita is not only there for moral support but as part of a little ruse to convince Jason's father on his deathbed that Anita is his 'girlfriend' and that he's truly not gay. Not the most exciting plot but there have been worse plots in Anita's books lately (when there HAS been a plot that is).
In the midst of that, Jason's distant 'cousin', Keith Summerland is getting married. The Summerland's are rich and powerful, the father being a governor with presidential hopes in the near future. It just so happens that Jason and Keith look so much alike they could very well be twins. Press gets involved, hijinks ensue.
There are 'bad guys' in the book eventually, but it's a very minor portion of the plot. What's left of any plot can pretty much be summed up as Anita and Jason, primarily, spouting emotional baggage. There are many MANY pages of talking head scenes.
What I often find ridiculous about the series is that we have these characters that have known each other for so long and they have these long involved soul searching conversations that do nothing but demonstrate that they really don't know each other at all. And these are people that spend immense amounts of time with each other. Granted, most of that time spent together involves sex.
Which leads me to another gripe with the book: Sex solves all in the Anita Blake series. Relationship problems? Have some sex. Saddened by the imminent passing of a relative? Have some sex. Bad vamps trying to steal your soul? Have some sex. Author running out of ideas as to bad things bad vamps can do to our heroine? Roll her mind and make her have a 48 hour marathon sex session (yes, that's IN this book..spoilerish I know). Trying to extend a rehashed soul searching conversation between main characters? Have them tell Anita how great she is at sex. Yep, even when sex isn't being had it's being spoken about.
When reading alot of the post-Obsidian Butterfly books I can't help but wonder if LKH doesn't think that sex is the be all end all of human existence. I try not to make any judgments about LKH based on her books, but I'm sorry if that's just the impression I get.
You meld all the 'heart to heart' talks and the incessant sex and it starts to become just an X rated version of Dawson's Creek. These characters are hardly angsty teenagers but they seem so developmentally stunted in the relationship department that it often times seems like a teen drama.
I also think that the series is so incredibly decompressed that it's moving along at a snail's pace and that's causing alot of the issues I complain about. Not much time has actually passed since butterfly, so we get book after book of Anita struggling with new powers. The idea of her being a panwere and just choosing a furry animal to turn into has been dragging on forever. The ardeur (once again, one of the LAMEST plot devices used to inject lots of orgiastic sex into a series I've ever born witness to) is still something she doesn't have to control and it was introduced what, 5 or 6 books ago?
Most of the sex and relationship conversations seem to be the same ones over and over again, just with a different character that Anita's talking to.
Oh, and we get even more brand new characters that are attracted to Anita like opposite poles of two different magnets. Werelions and weretigers oh my!
Now, it's not ALL bad. I think the character assassination of Richard is coming to an end. Remember, he inherited alot of Anita's anger when the vampire marks were married in their triumverate. He's also developing some new powers of his own which should be interesting to read about IF handled properly.
In any event, I was sorely disappointed in this one after reading what I thought was a great turnaround in the series with Harlequin. Instead of continuing an upward trend and a revisitation to some of the elements that made the first 8 or 9 books so much fun and so engaged to read we got what pretty much amounts to Micah Part II, just with Jason in the sweetie du jour role.
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