fiainros reviewed The Harlequin (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 15) by Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (15))
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4 stars
I purchased this book in a bargain bookbin for $1. I enjoy Laurell K. Hamilton the same way I enjoy Nora Roberts, easy reading on the mind.
I haven't read any Hamilton August of 2008 when I read Danse Macabre and April of 2010 when I wrote this review. It is nice that Hamilton incorporates back-story into her story-telling such that you could pick up any book any time and figure out what was going on. She alludes to other story-lines as well, so that a long-time reader can nod their head with remembrance. On occasion, I think she gets the facts of her previous stories wrong (one example is seeing Richard in his full wolf form) but with all the events that happen in Anita's life, this can be forgiven.
I started this book on a flight to a scientific conference for work. No time to read during the …
I purchased this book in a bargain bookbin for $1. I enjoy Laurell K. Hamilton the same way I enjoy Nora Roberts, easy reading on the mind.
I haven't read any Hamilton August of 2008 when I read Danse Macabre and April of 2010 when I wrote this review. It is nice that Hamilton incorporates back-story into her story-telling such that you could pick up any book any time and figure out what was going on. She alludes to other story-lines as well, so that a long-time reader can nod their head with remembrance. On occasion, I think she gets the facts of her previous stories wrong (one example is seeing Richard in his full wolf form) but with all the events that happen in Anita's life, this can be forgiven.
I started this book on a flight to a scientific conference for work. No time to read during the conference, I kept at the book during my flight and layovers on the way home, and I basically took a day of rest to finish it.
Mostly, in this book Anita does not have one of her power-jumps, she is just learning better to control her power. This could appear as a power-jump. There is, as is usual as this stage in the series, a lot of sex. Enough sex that if there weren't the influence of the ardeur one would wonder how one woman could have so much sex. I admit I'm impressed she climaxes each and every time.
Marmee Noir wakens more and strengthens more in this novel to exact justice on her own creation of The Harlequin.
One is left to wonder, is there an end in sight for this series? If so, Marmee Noir will be at the end. There is a bit of a 1990s/2000s sci-fi or thriller tv series feel where each book fights more and more evil/deadly baddies and there is some struggle to create worse and worse.