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i loved these book but it just get so boring with all the sex i am being to think laurell k hamiltion is either not getting enough or she a sex addict
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A lack luster story and far too much sex.
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There's a gang of vampire serial killers on the loose, so the Executioner gets called in to deal with them.
That's about it, really. Except that the first murder happens on page 15, the second one not until about 400 pages later. In between there's a lot of sex, Anita helping calm a riot, sex, Anita raising a zombie, sex, Anita fighting a few other battles, and, oh yeah, sex. Plus, of course, the obligatory agonising about it afterwards. So, like Narcissus in Chains, way too much sex; unlike it, the vampire-fighting action isn't that good when it finally does happen. Hmm. This may be the one when I have to finally admit that the stories I started reading with enjoyment have moved off in a completely different direction, never to return.
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A big dissapointment...
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I'm a great Laurell K Hamilton, I have all her books. I abslolutely LOVED her first 9 books + the first Merry Gentry book.
But after that ? Merry Gentry nr 2 and 3 were all just about the sex, and Anita was headded in the same direction, but at least there was still a story in there, somewhere, between all those gorgeous sexy, naked men...
But this one ? I didn't even like it enough to finish it !!! I got until page 100 or so, and then I just gave up, I couldn't stand it anymore.
That's the problem with a supernatural series where the big bad has to be bigger and badder with every book. Once she got to the top of that, Hamilton introduced sex in her books, and made that bigger, frequentlier and with a lot more men every book. Until that is all that you have... Maybe I'm just being naïve, but I like to read books for the stories, not for the sex.
Laurell K Hamilton can write good vampire murder mysteries, I'm sorry to see that she had abandoned it, so she can write about sex.
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Unbearable
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This book was downright awful. I was not able to even finish reading the last few chapters. It is really frustrating that the books (after Obsidian Butterfly) have a crime scene at the very beginning of the book, which misleads the reader to believing that there is going to be an action-packed, rich story with amazing characters to follow and mysteries to solve. Do not get your hopes up !!! Anita is so busy having sex with anything with a pulse , that there is no space for anything else. The woman is sexually frustrated.
I truley miss the "old", the real Anita Blake series. She was such a strong character, taking no nonsense from anyone. Someone who had her priorities fully sorted out.
The main men characters were strong-minded and actually had a personality. Now they are only lining up to see who is going to get jumped next, when she gets "hungry" again.
Even after reading these last horrible books, I am still hoping for a miracle to happen...... book 15, The Harlequin is going to be published soon, and I am hoping that the author at least tried to save the series !!!
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Losing quality by the book
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I'm not even putting up a small blurb of the book. Because Incubus Dreams is just pages and pages of mindless writing. There's no conducting thread, no visible plot. Just endless and most of the time meaningless conversations mixed with sex scenes. The `murder story' makes one or two brief appearances never be heard of again. It is also unfinished, meaning the case is never completely solved.
I actually thought Hamilton was picking the pace again, with Cerulean Sins. I mean, I didn't expect the series to live on the same kind of plot forever (read: Anita hunting big bad vamps and werewolves), but Cerulean Sins was proof that the plot can evolve to something different, and still be interesting. The `new Anita Blake trend' (read: the author focusing more on vampire politics, the ardeur and on Anita's life) doesn't really bother me. What bothers me is the fact that the books are loosing coherency and quality fast. Incubus Dreams is a thoroughly unworthy sequel.
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