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Original Title: | Skin Trade |
ISBN: | 0425227723 (ISBN13: 9780425227725) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17 |
Characters: | Anita Blake, Jean-Claude (Anita Blake series), Edward "Ted" Forrester, Jason Schuyler, Marmee Noir, Belle Morte, Olaf Gundersson, Wicked Truth, Crispin, Bernardo Spotted-Horse, Requiem |
Setting: | United States of America |
Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2009) |
Laurell K. Hamilton
Hardcover | Pages: 486 pages Rating: 3.92 | 34206 Users | 1218 Reviews
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Once you tell someone certain things, like, say, you got mailed a human head in a box, they tend to think you're crazy. Anita Blake's reputation has taken some hits. Not on the work front, where she has the highest kill count of all the legal vampire executioners in the country, but on the personal front. No one seems to trust a woman who sleeps with the monsters. Still, when a vampire serial killer sends her a head from Las Vegas, Anita has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Several officers and one executioner have been slain - paranormal style... Anita heads to Las Vegas, where she's joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward hiding behind his mild-mannered persona. It's a good thing Edward always has her back, because, when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses "tiger" too strongly to ignore it. The were-tigers are very powerful in Las Vegas, which means the odds of her rubbing someone important the wrong way just got a lot higher...Point Containing Books Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)
Title | : | Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17) |
Author | : | Laurell K. Hamilton |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 486 pages |
Published | : | June 2nd 2009 by Berkley Books |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Vampires. Romance. Paranormal Romance |
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Ratings: 3.92 From 34206 Users | 1218 ReviewsAppraise Containing Books Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)
Originally this series was fresh and alive, the character Anita Blake was someone that was interesting and battling her own foibles. As the series progressed plot was completely lost in lust. This book is the fatal crescendo of any hope for a plot flow. None of the characters are likable, most especially not Anita who is too hyped up on being a tough woman to make even a good fictional role model.Anita goes through life emotionally abusing everyone who cares for her and to be honest completeHamilton burst into my awareness with Guilty Pleasures, a book that introduced us to a world where vampires were legal citizens, raising the dead was a viable career, and small women who collected penguin-themed tchotchkes could nevertheless be respected police consultants. Anita Blake was a young woman who just wanted to do the right thing, and although she could not deny her attraction to the sensuous vampire Jean-Claude (ahahahahahahah), she never let her personal life interfere with her job.
This book was absolutely horrid. First off, Edward didn't even act like Edward. Then you have LKH's aweful attempt to satisfy the whiney babies who claimed Anita wasnt the same as before. (and when I say this I mean the people who dont like the sex)So here you have a story with less sex, and more plot. Yet the whole time Anita is so whiney that she isnt this kick ass heroine anymore. Even the other characters were whiney.I would let this slide if it were say RICHARD, but no.. none of her
Rating: 1.5 starsAnita Blake and her group of merry men are back again for more adventures in their alternative-world US of America.This time, Anita receives a human head in the mail. It seems an old foe, Vittorio the vampire is back to wreck havoc, this time in Las Vegas. So, Anita has to go to Nevada to give chase. US Marshals Bernardo, Edward and Olaf go with her.The 17th Anita Blake book was eerily reminiscent of "Obsidian Butterfly" (book 9 in the series) in a few aspects: Anita Blake
Anita receives a package in the mail the head of a vampire hunter.Vittorio, the vampire serial killer, has emerged again, this time in Las Vegas. Hes already slaughtered several people there to add to his ever expanding kill list and he wants Anita.Anita calls in what support she can and heads to Vegas before more are killed but the beasts and weretiger politics also await her in Vegas, no matter how much shed like to focus on the case.The most frustrating thing about this book is that, if you
Hurray for a plot! AND we have a return to police work, yay! Skin Trade wasn't perfect but I'm happier now that Hamilton is cleaning up her act (as is Anita).
I'm pretty sure I read this book, but I have no memory of it lol. This book was like one giant tease. I thought for one shining moment that we were getting the Anita of old. The police working, zombie raising, non-sexing Anita. But alas, that only lasted for about half of the book. I am trash for this series. I can't help it. And part of me wonders if it's because I keep waiting for things to get back to what made the series good. So what did I like?- the police work. We got to see Anita solving
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