Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • One Dull Set of Fangs
  • "Eclipse", by Stephanie Meyer
  • I can't wait for book #4!
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Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3)
Stephenie Meyer
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ASIN: 0316160202
Release Date: 2007-08-07

Book Description

Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob --- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars One Dull Set of Fangs.......2007-10-05

About halfway through this, I had to remind myself that the reason I was getting so annoyed was that as a nearly forty year old man, I'm hardly the target audience for this series. Young Bella's dilemma whether to be made a vampire and spend eternity with her Edward, or dump him and attach herself to hottie werewolf Jacob is a heart wrenching love letter to the crush of girls who can't decide if Zac Efron or Orlando Bloom is hotter.I actually liked the first book, but this third installment could have really benefitted from the loving snip of an editor. Any action in the book is relegated to the final hundred pages,and that wraps up in maybe twenty of them. The rest is a constant seemingly never ending gush of who do I love more,why am I so tortured, and how can I ever say goodbye to all these two dimensional characters.Those with newfound hormones will more than likely be sobbing by the end. I was too, but only cause I thought it would never end.

5 out of 5 stars "Eclipse", by Stephanie Meyer.......2007-10-05

Absolutely excellent read. A fantastic sequel to the previous two novels in the series and probably the best book I've read in my life, let alone this year. Stephanie Meyer is a brilliant author with a genius mind. If you do not read her books, you are missing out on something huge.

5 out of 5 stars I can't wait for book #4!.......2007-10-05

A great addition to Bella's story! I didn't want to put it down and I'm now ready to pick up book number 4, I wish I didn't have to wait!

5 out of 5 stars Vamp heaven.......2007-10-05

Having read the first two books in the Twilight series I was keen to get hold of the third and ordered it for expedited delivery to the UK. That should give you an idea of how much I wanted to read it.
Stephenie Meyer has created characters with a broad appeal, teens will relate to the ages, vamp fiction readers will love the new approach, fantasy readers also have all their boxes ticked, good character development, an addictive atmosphere, creative events and accurate continuity..
This book differs again from the sensuous and poetic first book and the tense and emotive second. Eclipse is an emotional battle, tension and concern for the characters strongly plays with the reader throughout, always making you wonder if the right decision will be made. The decision which suits the reader and not necessarily the character. Cleverly this technique draws you further into the gripping action which takes place.
I've loved the series and I can't wait to read more.
I don't know if I could cope with seeing a film made of this - surely no one persons interpretation could be perfect enough?

5 out of 5 stars Great Read.......2007-10-05

This book is AWESOME!! I've read all three volumes already! I can hardly wait for No. 4!! Highly recommened! This is also a very fast read!!
For a Few Demons More (Rachel Morgan, Book 5)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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For a Few Demons More (Rachel Morgan, Book 5)
Kim Harrison
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ASIN: 0060788380
Release Date: 2007-03-20

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With her action-packed Hollows series, featuring former bounty hunter--and mistress of the dark arts--Rachel Morgan, Kim Harrison has become one of the hottest authors in the incredibly popular genre of sexy supernaturalism. In her latest Hollows tale, For a Few Dollars More, Rachel unleashes all kinds of undead fury on the greater Cincinnati area when she tries to track down a serial killer. To catch up on the Hollows series so far, and to see the music that has inspired the stories, see below.

Follow the Hollows


Dead Witch Walking (Book 1)

The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (Book 2)

Every Which Way but Dead (Book 3)

A Fistful of Charms (Book 4)

Music Is the Muse

For Kim Harrison, music inspires her stories, and especially her characters. In her exclusive Music Is the Muse list for us, she reveals some favorite records that have provided the source, and the soul, for Rachel, Ivy, Trent, and more of her passionate and powerful characters. Among her muses:


Bleed Like Me, Garbage

With Teeth, Nine Inch Nails

Fallen, Evanescence

Book Description

Despite dating one vampire and living with another, Rachel Morgan has always managed to stay just ahead of trouble . . . until now.

A fiendish serial killer stalks the Hollows, claiming victims across society, and the resulting terror ignites a vicious Inderland gang war. And while the ancient artifact Rachel is hiding may be the key to stopping the murderer, revealing it could also create a battle to the death among the numerous supernatural races that live in and around Cincinnati.

For every action has its price, and when the vampire master Piscary is set free and the demonic Algaliarept dares to walk openly under the sun, even Rachel Morgan can't hide forever.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fantastic!.......2007-10-02

I love this series immensely. The characters are believable and fun. Kim Harrison knows how to write a story. I've love all of her previous books and this one is no different. The plot is intense. It's the kind of book you can't put down. I love how Rachel is portrayed. I look foward to the next ones!

5 out of 5 stars OMGOSH! Amazing!.......2007-09-17

Everytime I think a book cant get any better i get shocked and this book was awesome!! I love Rachel although im a HUGE fan of IVEY! she rocks. I love how this book plays out i think its the best in the series so far!

5 out of 5 stars She is getting better and better.......2007-09-17

Ms Harrison is getting better with each installation. Can't wait for her next book!. The addition of a "few more demons" was brilliant and diversified the storyline nicely.

5 out of 5 stars For a Few Demons More.......2007-09-05

This entire series rocks!!! Pick them up and you can't put them down. The cast of characters are memorable and believable. I had given up on urban fantasy, Laurel K Hamilton will do that to you. (that's called fair warning folks)

However Kim Harrison saved the day. I have all the Rachel Morgan books and have my calender marked as to when I can get the next one coming out. The plots MOVE.. and in unexpected ways at times. While relationships are there, Ms. Harrison doesn't let it become the whole story (thank the goddess for that!)

This books are a must read for all urban fantasy fans!!


5 out of 5 stars Highly Recomended.......2007-08-23

I think this book is the best in the series so far. It seems like Kim Harrison books just get better and better. I love this series and I'm waiting feverishly for the next one. If the rest of the books in her series are any indication, then the next book will be even better than this one. I really liked this book because of the brilliant mix of humor, horror, fantasy, and characters that are so well described I feel like I know them. I've never read an author who could shock me, scare me, then make me laugh out loud so many times in the same book. Trust me, this one is worth several all-nighters.
New Moon (Twilight, Book 2)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Almost there
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New Moon (Twilight, Book 2)
Stephenie Meyer
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ASIN: 0316160199

Book Description

Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won't be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The "star-crossed" lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Almost there.......2007-10-05

I'm probably a little too old to be reading this series (upper 20s), but I'm hooked. Regardless of somewhat bland writing and redundant descriptions and the never ending cliché's, I've become obsessed and can't stop fantasizing about Edward. Now, I'm halfway through New Moon and I'm about to throw it out the window...where the heck is Edward? ugh. Frustration levels at a peak.

5 out of 5 stars The love story that will not die.......2007-10-04

This book totally tugs on the romantic reader's heartstrings. The characters are so well developed in this book 2, that it becomes easier to identify with them and love them each. It is a great plot thickener.

5 out of 5 stars Fantastic.......2007-10-01

Have you read the first of this series... "TWILIGHT"? If you did, you probably did what I did... ran out and purchased "NEW MOON". I just received it and delved into it as soon as I opened the package. It's a wonderful continuation of "TWILIGHT". I'm not through yet, but I know at the end, I'll be just as anxious to get started on "ECLIPSE". NOTE: I started "TWILIGHT" because I was curious about what my niece was reading. (I always get the audio version because I do a lot of driving.)

5 out of 5 stars MY FAVORITE BOOK...EVER!!!.......2007-10-01

In the begining of the book everything seemed alright until Edward started acting strange.Bella knew something was wrong.Edward took her into the woods and told her he didn't love her anymore.Bella just sat in the rain for hours until the search party, that Charlie sent out, had found her. She was depressed for many months.Eventualy she startedto hang out with Jacob Black aka the werewolf.When Bella did something reckless her concious sounded like Edward, so she started doing more reckless stuff just to hear his voice.Alice had a vision of her jumping off a cliff and went to find Bella. Rosalie told Edward that Bella had killed herself and he went to Italy to find the Volturi.Edward wanted the Volturi to kill him.He planed ot walk into the most crowed place at noon. Alice and Bella hopped the first plane they could.Bella ran to EDward and reached him right before he steped into the sun light.The Volturi wanted to speak to edward ot see if he wanted ot jion them.ALice and BElla came with him.The members of the Volturi have powers just like the Cullens. The members wanted to see if their powers would work on Bella,a nd they didn't. The only way the Volturi would let Bella leave alive was if she was to turn into a vampire. They told her she had one year to become one of them. Together Bella,Edward, and Alice went back to the states where the rest of the Cullens were there to meet them.Edward took Bella home and would not leave her side. He explained that he left to protect her but he couldn't live without her. He told her that we will and always loved her.She told him that she loved him and didn't want him to leave ever again, he promiced that he would never leave unless BELLA told him to.Bellatolkd him that would never happen.Jacob Black was very angry that Edward was returning so he thought that if he got Bella into a lot of trouble then the "blood sucker" would leave. Jacob brought Bellas' dirt bike over to her house and showed it to Charlie.Charlie was VERY ANGERY!He screamed at Bella and it was not the nicest scene in the book.I've read New Moon about 4 times in the first week that i had it. Edward is my favorite character!!!!i got this book a week after it came out and that was the best day of my life.I dont like that Edward left Bella in the woods, but if you think about it he was doing it for her protection.During the months that Bella was depresed that was the worst part of the book.When I read that part for the first time I almost throught the book at the wall.It made me cry.My favorite part was when Alice found Bella and they were going to save Edward.I've read many books in my time a lot more than others can say they read, and this was by far the best book ever!! IF YOU DON'T READ THIS BOOK THEN YOU JUST DON'T LIKE BOOKS THAT ARE INTERESTING, AND ABLE TO DEVOURE A BOOK IN ONE SITTING! SO READ IT!!!

5 out of 5 stars awesome!.......2007-09-30

Just like the title says this book is awesome! just a wonderful series that is original and thrilling. The books is romantic as it is suspenseful. You fall in love with everything. a must read to the twilight series. GO and read the others!
The Historian
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • endless description, little to no plot
  • Skillful Riff on Dracula Legend
  • Great vampire story
  • Sad to have finished this book.
  • Captivating story and writing style
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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ASIN: 0316011770
Release Date: 2005-06-14

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If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova's long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father's library. The pages of the book are empty except for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor." When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that Dracula--Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century--was still alive. The story turns out to concern our narrator directly because Paul's collaborator in the search was a fellow student named Helen Rossi (the unacknowledged daughter of his mentor) and our narrator's long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost nothing. And then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also.

As well as numerous settings, both in and out of the East Bloc, Kostova has three basic story lines to keep straight--one from 1930, when Professor Bartolomew Rossi begins his dangerous research into Dracula, one from 1950, when Professor Rossi's student Paul takes up the scent, and the main narrative from 1972. The criss-crossing story lines mirror the political advances, retreats, triumphs, and losses that shaped Dracula's beleaguered homeland--sometimes with the Byzantines on top, sometimes the Ottomans, sometimes the rag-tag local tribes, or the Orthodox church, and sometimes a fresh conqueror like the Soviet Union.

Although the book is appropriately suspenseful and a delight to read--even the minor characters are distinctive and vividly seen--its most powerful moments are those that describe real horrors. Our narrator recalls that after reading descriptions of Vlad burning young boys or impaling "a large family," she tried to forget the words: "For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth." The reader, although given a satisfying ending, gets a strong enough dose of European history to temper the usual comforts of the closing words. --Regina Marler

Book Description

If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova's long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian.The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father's library. The pages of the book are empty except for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor." When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that Dracula--Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century--was still alive. The story turns out to concern our narrator directly because Paul's collaborator in the search was a fellow student named Helen Rossi (the unacknowledged daughter of his mentor) and our narrator's long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost nothing. And then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also.As well as numerous settings, both in and out of the East Bloc, Kostova has three basic story lines to keep straight--one from 1930, when Professor Bartolomew Rossi begins his dangerous research into Dracula, one from 1950, when Professor Rossi's student Paul takes up the scent, and the main narrative from 1972. The criss-crossing story lines mirror the political advances, retreats, triumphs, and losses that shaped Dracula's beleaguered homeland--sometimes with the Byzantines on top, sometimes the Ottomans, sometimes the rag-tag local tribes, or the Orthodox church, and sometimes a fresh conqueror like the Soviet Union.Although the book is appropriately suspenseful and a delight to read--even the minor characters are distinctive and vividly seen--its most powerful moments are those that describe real horrors. Our narrator recalls that after reading descriptions of Vlad burning young boys or impaling "a large family," she tried to forget the words: "For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth." The reader, although given a satisfying ending, gets a strong enough dose of European history to temper the usual comforts of the closing words. --Regina Marler

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars endless description, little to no plot.......2007-10-05

I borrowed this book, and I'm glad for that. Had I bought it I would have been quite upset. Essentially I had to put it down as its dragging inability to keep a plot going amidst the flowery descriptions of ruins and quaint European towns beat any ability to keep the story going into the ground. Once you think the story picks itself up, it's immediately lost again in the narrator's flighty attempt to recall back story, which itself gets lost among letters and other third party recounting that, naturally, gets pushed further and further off in favor of physical description. I couldn't make it to the halfway point in this book for that reason alone. If one is looking for a romantic travelogue, this just might be your book. If it's plot and storytelling you're looking for go elsewhere.

5 out of 5 stars Skillful Riff on Dracula Legend.......2007-09-29

Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian" is long and discursive, but it's never dull. It's a sprawling, old-fashioned, epistolary novel told in the first person by several different narrators (maybe it's the last Victorian novel we'll ever see). It's a serious novel about the two Draculas--the historical figure and the fictional one--ostensibly compiled by an unnamed female narrator. The author cleverly weaves the historical passages within the more adventuresome parts, and both fascinate. The narrator, now in her mid-50s, is writing in the near future (about 24 seconds from now) about events that took place at three points in the last century--1930, 1954, and 1974. The narrators, in addition to herself, are her father, her father's dissertation adviser, and her mother. This puts the horror at some distance--the creeptastic parts seem to be taking place behind a gauzy scrim.

The author's premise is that the historical Dracula (actually, as the author tells us, the name is the Romanian for Son of the Dragon, or Devil) never died. Worse, he's growing stronger over time. The legend is based on the historical exploits of Vlad Tepes (the Impaler), a late-15th-century prince who ruled with extreme cruelty over the (present-day) Romanian province of Wallachia, which is located just south of Transylvania. His favorite method of execution was to impale his enemies--many of whom were Ottoman Turks who had conquered Constantinople in the middle of the century.

The events are set in motion when Professor Rossi, the narrator's father's dissertation adviser, discovers a bound volume that's empty except for the woodcut of a dragon in the center (several more of them will turn up). And, during the course of the tale, which turns into a hunt to find Dracula's burial place so he can be finished off with the traditional anti-vampire methods, the various characters (and there are many) spend time in Turkey, cold-war Hungary and Romania, and France. Ms. Kostova is brilliant at her descriptions of places (maybe you'll want to visit them after you read the book). And she's good at invoking the horror, too. When the undead Dracula finally turns up (at the book's nasty, brutish, and short conclusion), he's a more than serviceable villain, as well as an intellectual, given by Ms. Kostova the traditional Devil's best lines.

And he only says "good evening" once.

4 out of 5 stars Great vampire story.......2007-09-28

Not as much about vampires as it is about the search for one, but it's great.

5 out of 5 stars Sad to have finished this book........2007-09-22

I loved this novel and I'm extremely sad that I'm done reading it! I'm a Historical Fiction lover and this novel was pretty much written with my exact literary tastes in mind. This novel is not for every reader, but I'd beg you to find a book that will please the masses.

For historical fiction buffs, lovers of mystery and intrigue, macabre seekers, and vampire enthusiasts... this is your novel!

5 out of 5 stars Captivating story and writing style.......2007-09-19

I couldn't put this book down. I have recommended it and when people finally get around to reading it they are thrilled they did. The story is thrilling - kind of an intellectuals Da Vinci Code - the writing style is fantastic.
All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 7)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • somebody's slipping...
  • All Together Dead
  • I liked it as a "light read" but still feel the lack of quality
  • Nobody writes like Charlaine Harris
  • Hurray for Ms Harris!
All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 7)
Charlaine Harris
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ASIN: 0441014941
Release Date: 2007-05-01

Book Description

Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit.

The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she'll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars somebody's slipping..........2007-09-30

Sigh...it seems like all my favorite authors are slipping these days. I found her newest book to be slow and boring....the first one hundred pages is a baby shower (completely unrelated to the plot), a wedding that comes out of nowhere and seems to be going back to the same place, and contrived daliance in the bar with Bills new honey, some clothes shopping...it's all a day in the life and not well done, either. The meat of the plot, if you'll call it that, was lame and contrived and I sat through most of it saying "Don't you SEE! OMG, after 9/11 anyone in their right mind can see where the bombs are!" You don't have to be a frelling psychic! I won't say it was BAD, because even though boring, it was well written, but it sure wasn't good. If I'd actually paid money for this book, though, instead of hitting up the budget of my friendly neighborhood library I'd have been pretty ticked.

4 out of 5 stars All Together Dead.......2007-09-28

Book 7 of the Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris brings telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to a vampire 'town meeting' that yields a tasty trial, romantic intrigue and radical-right anti-vamp attack. Oh, and Sookie is still surrounded by former or would-be lovers who want to make love, drink her blood, use her psychic gifts, or all of the above. Harris has crafted a character, a town, a world that her fans can't get enough of. Personally, I'd like to see her move a little faster on the 'Eric' front, but hey....choosing between a gladiator/ were-tiger and a thousand-year old Viking can't be easy! This isn't the best of the series, but it's a trueblood treat for those of us who love Sookie's Lopsided Louisiana otherworld.

3 out of 5 stars I liked it as a "light read" but still feel the lack of quality.......2007-09-24

Harris' main strengths are characterization, tone, and emotional content. Plot construction and pacing are her weaknesses. But that's okay, she's still a good storyteller and I like her books.

After reading several reviews at Amazon, I read "All Together Dead" with low expectations and maybe that's why I was pleasantly surprised. Plot and pacing are still "off" but they always have been.

The Sookie/Quinn romance doesn't "ring true" to me. Quinn remains too much an archtype for me to view him as a real personality. He seems more like an appendage to Sookie then anything else.

Also, why is it that Harris always resorts to Sookie's love interests/male friends usually being out of pocket when she's in a sticky situation?

There's lots of interesting subplots going on but the main action supposedly focuses on a vampire convention and the Queen's trial. After quite a lot of buildup, the trial is over and done with.

There is a surprising murder occuring near the end of the book that seems both out of character and unnecessary.

The continued tension and interest between Sookie and Eric is growing more interesting but again, I felt a bit let down in how their intimacy was forced. I suspect Sookie is some reincarnated former love of Eric's or something like that. Whether they're in love in this lifetime or not isn't the point. He's shown genuine affection and concern for her and I felt the "blood rape" was a cheap shot.

Like other reviewers, I agree this is a "filler" story and I hope we can look forward to more interesting happenings in future stories.

5 out of 5 stars Nobody writes like Charlaine Harris.......2007-09-17

Can't wait for another - I love her books and this one does not disappoint.

5 out of 5 stars Hurray for Ms Harris!.......2007-09-17

Ms Harris,
Eating and Sleeping are over-rated.
Writing is what is important.
So, if you wouldn't mind, give up your free-time, sleeping and eating - and get the next book finished!!
Can't wait!
PS
You're killing me making Eric second string. I know there is a hidden story there.
The Harlequin (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 15)
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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The Harlequin (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 15)
Laurell K. Hamilton
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ASIN: 0425217248
Release Date: 2007-06-05

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Readers haven't seen anything yet-new in the "fabulously imagined series" (Publishers Weekly) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names. It is forbidden to speak of The Harlequin unless you've been contacted. And to be contacted by The Harlequin is to be under sentence of death.

Long-time rivals for Anita's affections, Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, alpha-werewolf, will need to become allies. Shapeshifters Nathaniel and Micah will have to step up their support. And then there's Edward. In this situation, Anita knows that she needs to call the one man who has always been there for her...

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Small differences don't equal a good book.......2007-09-24

I have been a long time reader of Anita Blake books. I honestly had given up on the series and had stopped reading them completely until I read the reviews on this website. So I checked it out of the library and here is my review..


1) Laurell K. Hamilton did manage to tone down the sex, although her blatantly obvious "scolding" scenes where she's obviously referencing fans that are upset with where the sex has gone, having Anita "justify" her sex life for "right-wing conservatives" (aka "the mean fans"). I happen to be a liberal myself, and I enjoy some steamy sex scenes in my books. It's when the sex becomes more than the plot that I have an issue with it. That is when she should stop labeling it at fantasy, and start labeling it as erotica. Having said that, she did a good job of toning it down in this book, but the fact that she slaps the fans on the wrist several times within the content that almost negates my good feelings toward her for doing it.

2) The book was filled with the same old arguments that have been repeated and repeated and repeated in the past five or six books, and it's getting old. I don't want to hear Richard whine anymore. I don't want to hear Anita whine about Richard anymore. I don't want to read the same argument that Anita and Richard seem to have every five pages. Pick a way that these two are heading and STICK WITH IT. I don't expect the relationship to be perfect, to have no arguing at all, but PLEASE stop fighting about the same thing over and over! Fight over something new, or HEY! Don't fight at all for an entire book. NOT fighting also happens in relationships too.

3) There are too many men. I'm not talking about Anita and her sex life here, she can have as many lovers as she wants. But Ms. Hamilton should realize that after awhile, this becomes confusing. Ratio-wise, she just gains more men and not less every book. I can't remember them all or who they are or where they came from or what part they play in the book. Ms. Hamilton just spends time re-explaining every bit player and it just takes up more useless space where some real plot should be going.

I honestly feel like this series should have ended five or six books back. It makes me sad when authors continue to chug out books simply because it's making money for them and not for the integrity of the story. It seems like Ms. Hamilton has good ideas for plot, but not as many as she used to and now she's filling in between the spaces of the sparse concepts she does have. She has made comments before on her blog about how fans should just stop reading her books if we don't like them. How about she just stops publishing them publicly and writes them for herself then? Because she makes money off of them, but feels that she shouldn't have to listen to fans that pay her bills. Well, that's also the case with the story. It's been drawn out too long, and it's diluting what should have been intensely and purposefully ended a few books ago, with the strong ending it deserves.

4 out of 5 stars anita blake is at it again.......2007-09-22

what do you say about a writer who you can't wait until the next book comes out. it was excellent. i always recommend laurell hamiltons books

3 out of 5 stars reason to hope.......2007-09-21

I've been reading the Anita Blake series for years. It was the original confident and self-sufficient Anita who had me loving these books. She knew what she wanted and what she was about, and she went after it. I know that people/characters evolve. Stories stagnate if no one ever changes. Her changes, however, turned her into a shadow of her former self, and it was painful to see this persist over the course of several books. I was ready to throw in the towel and write Anita off. The last book that I truly enjoyed was book 9, Obsidian Butterfly, which also happened to feature another of my favorite characters, Edward. I slogged my way through the next 5, hoping to see Anita find her way out of her circle of self-doubt and endless sex. This book took a turn for the better. The plot was tighter and there was less of an emphasis on Anita needing sex to feed the ardeur. She's still agonizing over Richard though. UGH! Hamilton is at her best when she's crafting action scenes that have Anita tackling bad guys coming at her from all sides, and there was some good action in this one. The Harlequin will not rank among my favorites in the series, but it gives me hope. I'm not going to give up on Anita or LKH yet.

3 out of 5 stars Back to an actual story...mostly.......2007-09-20

Finally, an Anita Blake novel with 15 chapters before actual sex! Of course, a lot of those 15 deal with talking about sex, but there does seem to be an actual story this time. After the last few I waited until now to get the book to see what other readers had to say...and for the most part I agree - the story is better and the sex less frequent and graphic. She's almost like the old Anita we knew and missed. Here's hoping for the future.

2 out of 5 stars Better but still not great "Spoilers".......2007-09-11

This is the first book of the series that I didn't buy right away (or at all). I waited to check it out of the library after shelling out big bucks for the last Merry Gentry book and feeling really ripped off. Spoilers!!!!! I was pleased to see that there was less sex and it was, for the most part, less graphic than in the past, although reading that she is bleeding after sex and that her partner is turned on by it was just gross. That said, this book felt like a rerun. I cannot stomach another argument between Richard and Anita, much less one that comes in the middle of a scary situation when their lives are in danger. I think a good editor could've tightened this book up a bit and improved the flow. The relationship stuff, while very important and interesting, constantly took over and stalled the action. The internal dialogue of Anita's thoughts and the external dialogue she had with other characters was frequently repetitive. We, the readers, only need to be told the facts of a situation once. My final complaint is that what could easily have been the most emotionally dynamic scene in the book, the fight between Richard and Jean Claude, was only written as the aftermath, because Anita was in another room at the time. Could've been brilliant, shame it's not.
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
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Stephenie Meyer
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"Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. 'Be very still,' he whispered, as if I wasn't already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat."

As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he's a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But, Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.

Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. She begins with a familiar YA premise (the new kid in school), and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know, and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. They are all rescued vampires, part of a family headed by saintly Carlisle, who has inspired them to renounce human prey. For Edward's sake they welcome Bella, but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her, the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst. The precision and delicacy of Meyer's writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of YA fiction. (Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell


10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Stephenie Meyer

Q: Were you a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Angel? What are you watching now that those shows are off the air?
A: I have never seen an entire episode of Buffy or Angel. While I was writing Twilight, I let my older sister read along chapter by chapter. She's a huge Buffy fan and she kept trying to get me to watch, but I was afraid it would mess up my vision of the vampire world so I never did.

I don't have a ton of time for TV, and my kids get rowdy when I have on "mommy shows," but I do have a secret fondness for reality shows (the good ones, at least in my opinion). I always TiVo Survivor, The Amazing Race, and America's Next Top Model.

Q: What inspired you to write Twilight? Is this the beginning of a series? Why write for teens?
A: Twilight was inspired by a very vivid dream, which is fairly faithfully transcribed as chapter thirteen of the book. There are sequels on the way--I'm hard at work editing book two (tentatively titled New Moon) right now, and book three is waiting in line for its turn.
I didn't mean to write for teens--I didn't mean to write for anyone but myself, so I had an audience of one twenty-nine year old (and later one thirty-one year old when my sister started reading). I think the reason that I ended up with a book for teens is because high school is such a compelling time period--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating memories. It's a fascinating place: old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval. There's a lot of scope for a novel in that.

Q: What is your favorite vampire story? Fave vampire movie?
A: I guess my favorite vampire story would be The Vampire Lestat, by Anne Rice, simply because it's one of the only ones I've ever read. I keep meaning to pick up Bram Stoker's Dracula, because I get asked this question so often and I should probably start with the classics, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Again, I'm afraid to read other vampire books now, for fear of finding things either too similar, or too different from my own vampire world.

Ack! I can't even answer the movie question. I can't remember ever seeing a single vampire movie, outside of clips from Bela Lugosi movies on TV. I don't like true horror movies--my favorite scary movies are all Hitchcock's.

Q: What other young adult authors do you read?
A: My favorite young adult author is L.M. Montgomery I also enjoy J.K. Rowling (but who doesn't?), and Ann Brashares. As a teen, I skipped straight to adult books (lots of sci-fi and Jane Austen), so I'm rediscovering the world of teen literature now.


Stephenie Meyer's List of Books You Should Read


Anne of Green Gables

Romeo and Juliet

Dragonflight

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Princess Bride

See more recommendations from Stephenie Meyer



Amazon.com's Significant Seven
Stephenie Meyer graciously agreed to answer the questions we like to ask every author: the Amazon.com Significant Seven.

Q: What book has had the most significant impact on your life?
A: The book with the most significant impact on my life is The Book of Mormon. The book with the most significant impact on my life as a writer is probably Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card, with Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier coming in as a close second.

Q: You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?
A: The CD is easy: Absolution by Muse, hands down. It's harder to give myself just one movie, but the one I watch most frequently is Sense and Sensibility--the one with the screenplay by Emma Thompson. One book is impossible. I'd have to have Pride and Prejudice, but I couldn't live without something by Orson Scott Card and a nice, thick Maeve Binchy, too.

Q: What is the worst lie you've ever told?
A: My lies are all very, very boring: "No, you really look great in hot pink!" "My children only watch one hour of TV a day." "I didn't eat the last Swiss Cake Roll--it must have been one of the kids." That's the best I've got.

Q: Describe the perfect writing environment.
A: It's late at night and the house is silent, but I'm still (miraculously) full of energy. I have my headphones in and I'm listened to a mix of Muse, Coldplay, Travis, My Chemical Romance, and The All-American Rejects. Beside me is a fabulous, and yet mysteriously low in calorie, cheesecake....

Q: If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?
A: I'd like it to say that I really tried at the important things. I was never perfect at any of them, but I honestly tried to be a great mom, a loving wife, a good daughter, and a true friend. Under that, I'd want a list of my favorite Simpsons quotes.

Q: Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?
A: I'd love to have a chance to talk to Orson Scott Card--I have a million questions for him. Mostly things like, "How do you come up with this stuff?!" But, if he wasn't available, I'd settle for Matthew Bellamy (lead singer of Muse).

Q: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
A: I'd want something offensive, rather than defensive. Like shooting fireballs from my hands. That way, you're really open to going either way--hero or villain. I like to have choices.



Book Description

"Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. 'Be very still,' he whispered, as if I wasn't already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat." As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he's a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But, Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. She begins with a familiar YA premise (the new kid in school), and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know, and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. They are all rescued vampires, part of a family headed by saintly Carlisle, who has inspired them to renounce human prey. For Edward's sake they welcome Bella, but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her, the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst.The precision and delicacy of Meyer's writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of YA fiction.(Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell 10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Stephenie Meyer Q: Were you a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Angel? What are you watching now that those shows are off the air? A: I have never seen an entire episode of Buffy or Angel. While I was writing Twilight, I let my older sister read along chapter by chapter. She's a huge Buffy fan and she kept trying to get me to watch, but I was afraid it would mess up my vision of the vampire world so I never did. I don't have a ton of time for TV, and my kids get rowdy when I have on "mommy shows," but I do have a secret fondness for reality shows (the good ones, at least in my opinion). I always TiVo Survivor, The Amazing Race, and America's Next Top Model. Q: What inspired you to write Twilight? Is this the beginning of a series? Why write for teens? A: Twilight was inspired by a very vivid dream, which is fairly faithfully transcribed as chapter thirteen of the book. There are sequels on the way--I'm hard at work editing book two (tentatively titled New Moon) right now, and book three is waiting in line for its turn. I didn't mean to write for teens--I didn't mean to write for anyone but myself, so I had an audience of one twenty-nine year old (and later one thirty-one year old when my sister started reading). I think the reason that I ended up with a book for teens is because high school is such a compelling time period--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating memories. It's a fascinating place: old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval. There's a lot of scope for a novel in that. Q: What is your favorite vampire story? Fave vampire movie? A: I guess my favorite vampire story would be The Vampire Lestat, by Anne Rice, simply because it's one of the only ones I've ever read. I keep meaning to pick up Bram Stoker's Dracula, because I get asked this question so often and I should probably start with the classics, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Again, I'm afraid to read other vampire books now, for fear of finding things either too similar, or too different from my own vampire world. Ack! I can't even answer the movie question. I can't remember ever seeing a single vampire movie, outside of clips from Bela Lugosi movies on TV. I don't like true horror movies--my favorite scary movies are all Hitchcock's. Q: What other young adult authors do you read? A: My favorite young adult author is L.M. Montgomery I also enjoyJ.K. Rowling (but who doesn't?), and Ann Brashares. As a teen, I skipped straight to adult books (lots of sci-fi and Jane Austen), so I'm rediscovering the world of teen literature now. Stephenie Meyer's List of Books You Should Read Anne of Green GablesRomeo and JulietDragonflightTo Kill a Mockingbird The Princess BrideSee more recommendations from Stephenie Meyer Amazon.com's Significant SevenStephenie Meyer graciously agreed to answer the questions we like to ask every author: the Amazon.com Significant Seven. Q: What book has had the most significant impact on your life?A: The book with the most significant impact on my life is The Book of Mormon. The book with the most significant impact on my life as a writer is probably Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card, with Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier coming in as a close second.Q: You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?A: The CD is easy: Absolution by Muse, hands down. It's harder to give myself just one movie, but the one I watch most frequently is Sense and Sensibility--the one with the screenplay by Emma Thompson. One book is impossible. I'd have to have Pride and Prejudice, but I couldn't live without something by Orson Scott Card and a nice, thick Maeve Binchy, too.Q: What is the worst lie you've ever told?A: My lies are all very, very boring: "No, you really look great in hot pink!" "My children only watch one hour of TV a day." "I didn't eat the last Swiss Cake Roll--it must have been one of the kids." That's the best I've got.Q: Describe the perfect writing environment.A: It's late at night and the house is silent, but I'm still (miraculously) full of energy. I have my headphones in and I'm listened to a mix of Muse, Coldplay, Travis, My Chemical Romance, and The All-American Rejects. Beside me is a fabulous, and yet mysteriously low in calorie, cheesecake....Q: If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?A: I'd like it to say that I really tried at the important things.I was never perfect at any of them, but I honestly tried to be a great mom, a loving wife, a good daughter, and a true friend. Under that, I'd want a list of my favorite Simpsons quotes.Q: Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?A: I'd love to have a chance to talk to Orson Scott Card--I have a million questions for him. Mostly things like, "How do you come up with this stuff?!" But, if he wasn't available, I'd settle for Matthew Bellamy (lead singer of Muse).Q: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?A: I'd want something offensive, rather than defensive. Like shooting fireballs from my hands. That way, you're really open to going either way--hero or villain. I like to have choices.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Loved It!!!!!.......2007-10-06

I loved this book!!! I think it was the fastest I've ever read a book. I couldn't put it down. It realy draws you in and you realy feel for the charaters. I had to order the next one. They have to make a movie about the series. I would recommend it for all ages. Great LOVE story.

5 out of 5 stars Mystical, yet inviting..........2007-10-06

I enjoyed this book throughly. It takes place in a time that everyone can relate to---high school. It was well written, but a little to detailed in some places. It could be edited a little to make it shorter, but overall it was a nice, intriguing read. I generally don't like vampire books, but this one was great!

5 out of 5 stars Twilight analysis.......2007-10-05

BY SARAH LAMBERT

"Slowly, slowly, my thoughts started to break through that brick wall of pain. To plan. For I had no choices now but one: to go to the mirrored room and die". Have you ever loved someone so much that you would go through anything just to be with them, even if it is fatal? Well, in the book Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, Bella Swan loves Edward Cullen just that much.
Twilight is my absolute favorite mystery love story of the main character, Bella Swan, and her move to Forks, Washington, to visit her dad. While she is there, the unthinkable happens- she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Cullen, but the only thing about Edward is, he is not just some ordinary guy at Forks High School- he's not even human. He can't go out in the sunlight, and he drinks human blood- you can put the pieces together.
One thing I love about this book is the description. Stephenie Meyer's description of the settings and people is so accurate that when you're reading the book, it's as if your are really there, seeing and experiencing everything as if it was right in front of you.
I would say the theme of this book is that love is the most important thing over everything else. Bella definitely demonstrated that this was true in the book. She didn't let that fact of Edward being a vampire get in the way of her love for him.
This book is amazing. After reading it, I can understand why people love it so much. It is very clear on description, it is easy to read and understand, and I can actually relate to the high school atmosphere in the book. I would recommend this book to mainly high school girls, because I don't think many boys would like a love story. This is a really interesting book, and if you're a lover of mystery love stories that you have a hard time putting down, then this is the book for you.

2 out of 5 stars This book is for Preteens........2007-10-05

This book is for PreTeens. I did not realize that before I started reading. I read halfway through the book, and was bored to death. They talked more about high school chemistry class than vampires. The characters were made of cardboard. I finally gave up on it. If you have a preteen girl at home, she will love it, and the story is very PG so you do not have to worry about the content.

5 out of 5 stars Wonderfully written.......2007-10-05

I read the first, second and third in the Twilight series within a week. I read so much, my eyesight weakened. The way the story is told is addictive--I could not put it down. I recommend buying all three at once and saving yourself extra time and money. Happy reading!
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ASIN: B000O82BZK

Product Description

Picking up where Season 7 of the cult TV series left off, creator Joss Whedon expands on the Slayer's mythology if he had the opportunity to continue the show into an eighth season. Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything's fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears, and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Miss Buffy the t.v. show.......2007-07-24

I really miss the Buffy t.v. show, so I decided to read the comic. It was very interesting, but it cost quite a bit for a brief 5 - 10 minute read. I don't know if I'll purchase the others, unless I can find them at their original cost.

3 out of 5 stars Expecting More.......2007-07-18

I only recently discovered that there was a Season 8 written by Joss Whedon and I immediately purchased the first 5 issues. After reading this first volume I'm left wanting more, but not quite as satisfied as I had hoped. Comics are okay, but seeing this on tv is so much better. If this had to be written I think I would have preferred a regular book instead of a comic book. All in all I think the first comic is just okay, but I still look forward to reading volume 2.

5 out of 5 stars Buffy's back better than ever!.......2007-07-01

Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 takes place right after the ending of Sunnydale. Buffy, Zander, and a giant Dawn return. A few of the other main characters are missing but Joss Whedon promises they will be returning in later issues.

I loved the artwork and plot line. I mean Joss Whedon helped write this so what's not to like?

2 out of 5 stars Meh..........2007-06-06

I am a big fan of Buffy, so, when I found out Joss had released a comic which would reflect his vision of season 8, I was eager to purchase it. Well.... I can honestly say I didn't like it. I love the Buff-meister and all, but this seemed really silly and not quite up to par. I think the art also lends itself to the unreality. Every character looks like they are 13. Buffy should at least be in her mid twenties.

The plot is pretty simple stuff. Buffy is the leader of a teen group of slayers who fight vampires in the future. Dawn is attending Berkeley and has a really BIG problem. Willow wasn't in this issue. Xander is Buffy's manager. Not a heck of a lot happens.

I would pick up a few issues if I could get it in the bargain bin of my local comic shop. But I wouldn't rush out to pay full price. There are better comics out there.

5 out of 5 stars Sure it's four years late, but I'll take it.......2007-04-17

*Possible spoilers within.*

I wonder if Joss Whedon originally had more story to tell after the end of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," or if he simply came up with more recently. As "Buffy" ended where he'd supposedly originally intended it to, but "Angel" was cancelled when Whedon expressedy stated that he had more story to tell, I would have expected him to continue "Angel" rather than "Buffy". (I still wish he would do so, and he has recently said that he's considering it.) However, I'll gobble up anything by Mr. Whedon, especially if it has something to do with the Buffyverse. And so when the first issue of the Season Eight comics was released, I devoured it. It's a tasty morsel indeed.

This season takes place a while after the epic finale of the TV show. The U.S. government, investigating the annihilation of Sunnydale, is now pursuing Buffy Summers, whom they consider to be a dangerous terrorist. Buffy herself is leading the thousands of Slayers currently in Europe in small groups, while the patched Xander Harris guides her from their base in Scotland. Obviously this is no small operation - in fact, it's huge.

Speaking of huge, Dawn Summers has recently lost her virginity to a "thricewise" - the result being Dawn's sudden growth spurt, from about five feet to about fifty feet. She's huge, unhappy, and currently housed in a warehouse where her tiny sister tries to sort things out with her. Buffy knows all about the repercussions of your "first time", but Dawn is waiting for Willow's return to vent. ("And anyhow Willow's the expert on boys since when now?" Buffy muses.)

In Part I of the season premiere, titled "The Long Way Home," Buffy battles a group of large, nasty beasts whose most recent victims appear to be members of a cult. (Expect a follow-up on that in future issues.) Meanwhile, in Sunnydale, government workers have unearthed someone from Buffy's past with a hankerin' for some vengeance. And cheese.

If the first issue is any indication, Season Eight of "Buffy" is gonna rock. Truly, this is going to be an absolute delight for any and all fans. Whedon's writing is as witty, creative, and shocking as ever, alluding to previous events and baddies like he so loves to do (and we love him to do) as well as the revelation from Season Five of "Angel" in which we learn that Buffy is currently dating some jerk called "the Immortal." Nope - that was one of three decoy Buffys used to throw enemies off her trail. As for the actual look of the comic, George Jeanty's artwork is excellent. Already he has the look of the characters down pat.

I was worried about how well "Buffy" would work as a comic as opposed to a TV show. I needn't have worried. "Buffy" works, and it works well. It's a blast to see the characters back, OFFICIALLY, and from Whedon's own hands at that. (In future issues, other writers from the series will be scripting the issues as well!) By all means, don't just go out and buy these, because they're selling like mad. Pre-order them well ahead of time so you can get your hands on some simply sumptuous "Buffy" action.

Buffy's back, and she's just as awesome as ever.
The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Not one of her best
  • Vampire ???
  • 4 stars
  • nice quick read
  • I was disappointed
The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires
Katie MacAlister
Manufacturer: Signet
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0451220854

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On a trip to England, physicist Portia Harding is stalked by a heart-stoppingly handsome maniac.Theondre North is a nephilim-the son of a fallen angel-who needs Portia's help to change his fate. Problem is, Portia's down-to-earth attitude frustrates beings from both heavenly and hellish realms-and gets Theo turned into a vampire. But at least he has Portia to satisfy his newfound hungers-and possibly save his soul.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Not one of her best.......2007-09-09

Sorry Katie - this wasn't one of your stronger efforts. I'm a big fan of the Ashling books. They're lots of fun, quick reads and the characters are pretty well developed and likable. It's not that the characters in this book weren't likable, just not that interesting. The story was weak compared to the others by this author. I'm afraid I wouldn't recommend it. There are better options out there for the time invested.

4 out of 5 stars Vampire ???.......2007-08-16

"Physicist Portia Harding's life is grounded in facts. There is nothing that can't be explained by logic and science ... until she travels with her best friend to England and accidentally summons an ethereal virtue who bequeaths her gift of weather control to Portia.

New Portia is walking around with a literal cloud over her head and a heart-stoppingly handsome maniac trying to kidnap her. But Theondre North is no run-of-the-mill lunatic. He's a nephilim - the son of an angel - whoneeds Portia's help to change his fate. Problem is, Portia's down-to-earth attitude frustrates being from both heavenly and hellish realms, and gets Theo turned into a vampire. But at least he has Portia to satisfy his newfound hunger ... and possibly save his soul. "

Even though I found this book very entertaining and amusing, I was very close to giving it 4 stars. And the reason is ....
The first 4 books in Katie MacAlister's Paranormals (A Girl's Guide To Vampires", "Sex and the Single Vampire", "Sex, Lies, And Vampires", "Even Vampires Get The Blues") are absolutely fantastic and actually about vampires. But this one, nothing of the sort....
But again .... the story is very interesting, amusing and engaging. Most of the characters are supernatural beings, there is quite a lot of "traveling" between worlds and of course there is romance.
If you are a type of a reader that pays immense attention to every detail concerning, for example, the historical parts of the story or any other descriptive flaws of the surroundings/characters etc., than I would definitely advise you to stay away. This books is just pure fun and light entertainment. So fans of paranormal mysteries/romance, and of course fans of Katie, go ahead and buy this book and enjoy it :)

4 out of 5 stars 4 stars.......2007-06-25

Portia Harding was an uber-skeptic, but while on a trip to England, did agree to try to be more open to the idea that there was more to the world than what can be proven. Barely was the promise made than she had to make good on it. While relaxing in a fairy ring, she reads a summoning spell and in response, a woman calling herself the virtue, Hope, shows up, giving her the "Gift" before fleeing from pursuers unknown. Portia thinks she's just having a delusion, even after handsome Theo North shows up demanding that she grant him forgiveness and forcibly removing both her and her friend, Sarah from the fairy ring. The two women escape, but he continues to come after them, stating that he's a nephilim and needs her to forgive him. That's only the beginning of the weirdness. Odd people begin popping up to put Portia through "trials" so that she can join the Court of Divine Blood and take on her role as a virtue. Finally, Portia is forced to believe what is going on is real. Of course, by that point, the situation has turned dire. Theo has lost his soul and been turned into a Dark One, with her as his Beloved; and she has been accused of murdering Hope. Portia has scant days in which to complete her trials successfully, restore Theo's soul, and prove her innocence. She might also get to save the Court of Divine Blood in the process, but that's almost a side benefit. One thing's certain, when Portia is wrong, she's wrong in a big way.

**** Another certainty, in the real world, is that if readers are looking for clever, witty, paranormal romances, then they need look no further than Katie MacAlister to begin their list. Portia's conversion from skeptic to believer is filled with laughs and highlighted by moments of profoundness. This is the Best Dark One novel yet, and the ones that came before it were wonderful. ****

Amanda Killgore

4 out of 5 stars nice quick read.......2007-06-24

nice quick read, plot moves well, nice character development, easy reading for a summer afternoon, can finish in a few hours

2 out of 5 stars I was disappointed.......2007-06-13

I love Katie Macalister's Aisling Grey Series so I was eager to start reading this book. After 135 pages I simply gave up, luckily I had a Keri Arthur for back up! The Portia character over analyzes everything to the point of boredom and then does it all over again a few chapters later. I got it the first time, you do not believe in the paranormal. Didn't some one write that a reader reads once and retains so you do not need to belabor a point over and over again? Portia is a pain pain and in my opinion the romance never really took off. Plus both character and author seem to have reglious hang ups and religion, like politics, is always a touchy subject.
Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 14)
Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • danse macabre
  • Unreadable
  • It's ok but could be better.
  • Where's the plot?
  • Some positive comments
Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 14)
Laurell K. Hamilton
Manufacturer: Jove
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ASIN: 0515142816

Book Description

These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, werewolf, or something else entirely, it's clear that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner is no way to bring up a baby.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars danse macabre.......2007-09-26

it was everything i had hoped for in the series of Laurell K. Hamilton Anita Blake Vampire Hunter . I have bought the whole series and I'm enjoying myself. Each character brings their own flavor to the plot but Jean-Claude ,Richard , Micah and Nathaniel are to die for.

1 out of 5 stars Unreadable.......2007-09-18

Who knew sex and the supernatural could be so boring. I had to give up on it.

4 out of 5 stars It's ok but could be better........2007-09-05

I love her first books more then her new ones but its still Anita Blake! So I just got to give it a 4.

3 out of 5 stars Where's the plot?.......2007-08-24

The book was ok. It's just a different formula from what i've come to expect in this series. I guess Anita's just evolving with all her powers and all the men in her life. Changes were bound to happen. I'll still read any book Laurell writes that has Anita in it. She's just a good character. Not many liked this book but if you're a true fan of the series, you take the good with the not so good.

4 out of 5 stars Some positive comments.......2007-08-23

I'm not a diehard Hamilton fan, but this series is fun, imaginative and often a roller coaster ride. This book is following the darker, more erotic elements of the newer books in the series, and is particularly different in that there are no corpses, no zombies, no police. Thankfully, no extensive gunwear descriptions. Just Anita, her men and the sticky politics of vampires and the Were folk.

New light is shed on the nature of the ardeur as Anita realizes that she is indeed a succubus. She has to grapple with what her body demands, and with the fact that managing the ardeur is a responsibilty that can cost her the lives of those who are metaphysically linked to her through the two triumverates: She, Richard and Jean-Claude, as well as the new triumverate linking her with wereleopard Nathanial and vampire Damian. The new triumverate demonstrates how powerful a healthy link can be; she, Nathanial and Damian are harmonious and interdependent. It also shows how disasterous a weak union can be when she doesn't feed, Damian, and then Nathanial suffer the consequences of her carelessness.

There also appears to be some blending of personalities, Richard is showing signs of Anita's temper, (scary thing!) submissive Nathanial is becoming more confident and assertive...and dominant. The omega leopard successfully faces down the alpha wolf Richard. Jean-Claude comes to the bittersweet realization that while Anita loves him, his human servant is more in love with, and completed by her housemates Micah and Nathanial. He is growing more sentimental.

Yes, its thin on plot, but high on the soapy drama. Anita's pregnancy scare, Nathanial's face-downs with those who demean him, Richard's elation over the pregnancy, (its gotta be his, right? He's so damn manly...) and his realization that he'll never get the white picket fences with Anita, the attempted high-jacking of the ardeur, and the ballet itself. The high drama ends with some truly high-risk sex and an understanding between Anita and Asher.

I can see why die hard fans are unhappy with the direction of the series, its a far cry from the tight, bleak horror/mystery that it began with. Characters are evolving, plot-lines are being introduced and new characters are emerging. Some are just waiting in the wings for their moment in the spotlight. I look forward to finding out more about London, Wicked and Truth, Claudia, Damian, Jessica Arnett and her unrequited crush on Nathanial.

Anita's changing and evolving as well, she's dropped a lot of her standards, some for the good, some for bad. Frankly, her job as a Marshal and dealing with humans seems to be making her more a monster than rubbing shoulders (and other body parts) with the fangs and the furries.

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