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Cerulean Sins (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 11) |  | Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher: Jove
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0515136816
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: August 31, 2004
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Amazon.com Review
Laurell K. Hamilton's legions of eager fans will be pleased to see Cerulean Sins), the eleventh novel in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, which is set on an alternate Earth where magic works and vampires and werewolves are real. When a sinister stranger tries to hire the magically potent Anita Blake to raise the dead, she finds herself embroiled in the search for a vicious, supernatural serial killer, and also in the clandestine international politics of the vampires. And as she becomes more deeply enmeshed in cruel plots and counterplots, her tangled personal life only becomes more demanding, more wrenching, and more erotically fraught. With ten previous books in the Anita Blake series, Cerulean Sins is not the place to start. Though author Hamilton artfully reveals the backstory in small doses, the numerous returning characters and the complex history will overwhelm most newcomers (and even the most devoted fans may find that the backfilling slows the pace). Also, the characters frequently stand around talking and psychoanalyzing one another, which makes for static stretches unlikely to hold a new reader's attention. Newcomers should start with the first book, Guilty Pleasures. --Cynthia Ward
Product Description
Once a sworn enemy of all monsters, Anita is now the human consort of both Master Vampire Jean Claude and leopard shapeshifter Micah. When a centuries-old vampire hits St. Louis, Anita finds herself needing all the dark forces her passion can muster to save the ones she loves.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 416
 Awful March 2, 2010
Jane Smith
When I first began this series, I couldn't put it down. Sleepless nights, distraction at work, it was such a good series. I am beginning to really dislike this series. I am all for steamy sex scenes, but this book is like reading a compilation of vampire/werewolf erotica/short stories.
I admit the vampire hunter angle was what first drew me, but the murder mystery and the characters were what really kept me in the series. Now the plotline is all about the ardeur. I almost want to skip over those parts now; I'm so sick of it! I really hope she gains control of it soon or I am going to lose interest completely in the books. I read an afterword in one of Hamilton's earlier books and how she is exploring the darker sides of crime, but I think that this is falling at the wayside in favor of these horrible sex scenes. They're so frequent that it's actually boring.
The contrasting characters in Richard and Jean-Claude was wonderful in the beginning, and now I'm hoping Richard is killed off. I actually had an awful thought that he was the killer near the end. That he lost it bad enough that he went rogue. His self-desctruction is so sickening and self-pitying, however no one addresses how he almost got them killed. Where is Jean-Claude's spine? I hear more about what he's wearing that about his character. I really miss the old Jean-Claude. I also liked Asher when he was at least halfway angry about what happened with Julianna. Now he's as woe-is-me as Richard, just not with such horrible consequences.
There is also the annoying internal debate about her morality. GET OVER IT ALREADY! If LKH is going to forge ahead with these awful sex scenes, and if Anita is going to be such an all-powerful ball-buster, let's give the girl a spine, too. Anita's tug-of-war of conscience is basically just a repeat of, "I don't want to be a monster, but what I do makes me one." And so on and so on. LKH's occasional references to God and prayer and her interpretation of the Bible is pretty uncomfortable and seems sort of misplaced. She doesn't breathe a prayer that her shot to kill the bad guy goes true or for help on how to get out of an impossible situation, but on who to have sex with or how to soothe one of her many lovers' egos.
I really hope the next book has more murder plotline than this last book, and less sex, mind-numbing descriptions of clothing, and more wit. In all of the characters.
 Sooo sick of the other reviewers!!!! January 10, 2010
Julie Ruth (Dearborn, MI)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Seriously I am sooo sick of the reviewers that are constantly slamming these books, please for everyone's sake quit reading them. They are not for the faint of heart or for prudes, if you are either please do not read. I do not want to hear how dissapointed everyone is in the direction the author is taking the books...seriously then stop reading them. Some people who have read them since book 1 still love the books and what she has done with the characters and the storyline. I think it is so funny the reviewers who say this will be the last Anita book I will read, guess who still writes new reviews for the new Anita books? The author has said that she is not going to change the direction of the books so all prudes need not apply! Obviously they are still doing well since they still make the bestsellers list every year. There is a lot in this book: vampire politics and murder. All plot lines get tied up in the order of their importance to the story. And really after reading some of the scathing reviews of this book I thought it would be non-stop sex all the way through. There are only two sex scenes in this book. So please do not let the other reviews dissuade you from continuing this highly entertaining series.
 Awesome Read!!!!! January 5, 2010
D. Guy (Panama City, FL USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is an awesome read!!! I would definitely suggest it to anyone who reads this kind of books.
Read the rest of the series first. January 3, 2010
Cindy Neary
I have been an avid reader for over 40 years and the paranormal, alternate universe stories have always captured my interest. Laurell K Hamilton has created the most amazing, complex and original culture for vampires, werewolves and other preternatural creatures that I have ever read and, in my opinion, she is the person most responsible for creating the urban paranormal genre as we know it today. This is my favorite book in the Anita Blake series which is saying a lot, but it's the culmination of a building love story from the first ten books and you will lose the best part of the story if you don't read those first. Many Laurell K. Hamilton fans did not like this book because the early series was not sexually explicit and starting with Narcissus in Chains, the book before this one, the series took a very sexually charged direction. But for me, Cerulean Sins was not about the sex, but about the relationships between Anita, Jean-Claude and his former lover, Asher and about trying to save the ones you love. Jean-Claude is the sexiest, smartest, most manipulative, vulnerable, iron willed vampire in literature. Anita is a complicated, cynical. strong alpha female with abandonment issues. Jean Claude woos her over ten books using romance, guile, honesty and whatever other tool he can find. These books are witty with some great one liners and contain complex, well developed characters who grow over time. They are a mix of mystery, romance, and horror and the paranormal which at the time they were first published, was an unheard of combination. If you like urban paranormal, you will love these books.
Liked it more than I thought I would... January 2, 2010
ReadingHobbit
I took a short break from this series, then returned to it with this book. After reading the reviews, I wasn't sure I'd like it, but wanted to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I understand and agree with the negatives in the other reviews, but I think other aspects of the book overcame a lot of it enough to give this a 4-star review. I won't detail the plot since others have done such a good job of it, but I will say that it was fast-paced and more interesting than the last book in the series. I thought the vampire politics in this one was well-done, and although the sex scenes were too numerous, they were better written than in previous books (less of a how-to manual, more sensual), so it made up for it to a certain extent. The author does need to watch her repeated phrases ("muscles where there shouldn't be any", descriptions of long hair, and quite a few others... it tends to get worse with each book). Also, Richard is still beyond irritating, I miss Edward, increasingly enjoy Zerbrowski's sense of humor, enjoyed seeing more of Asher, but hate seeing Dolph's fall from grace. Overall, I think the author's writing skill overcame a lot of the negatives in this book and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would from the reviews.
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