Cerulean Sins (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 11) - Hardcover

Hamilton, Laurell K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0425188361 ISBN 13: 9780425188361

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover, 2003

Synopsis

The human consort of Master Vampire Jean-Claude and Micah, the leopard shapeshifter, Anita Blake must come to Jean-Claude's assistance when his oldest ancester sends one of her vicious and powerful underlings to St. Louis, threatening his and his clan's very existence.

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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

About the Author:

Laurell K. Hamilton lives near St Louis with her husband, her daughter, two attack pugs, three birds, and a partridge in a pear tree.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0425188361
• ISBN 13: 9780425188361
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 405