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Bloody Bones
by: Laurell K. Hamilton

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781841490502
ISBN: 1841490504
Label: Orbit
Manufacturer: Orbit
Number Of Pages: 370
Publication Date: November 02, 2000
Publisher: Orbit
Studio: Orbit
Sales Rank: 53949

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
In some of Laurell Hamilton's excellent supernatural thrillers about Anita Blake, the Vampire Executioner, we forget that Anita raises the dead for a living, and that her involvements with the undead, the temporarily furry and the St Louis Police Department are only a sideline. In Bloody Bones, she is hired to raise the victims of some long-ago mass slaughter, a pile of dismembered arms and legs and skulls and ribs, and identify them. Her employers want to build a luxury hotel on ground claimed by the Bouvier clan as an old burial ground--and the Bouviers are not entirely human... Add to the mix murders too brutal to be obviously vampiric, a feud between Anita's vampire date Jean-Claude and the older vampire who rules the neighbouring countryside--and we have the sort of complicated mess of intrigue which Hamilton always handles so well. Anita is an interesting character because so torn between what she is, a necromancer with the power to compel the dead, and a person far too accomplished at violence, and her religious beliefs, as well as between her attraction to Jean-Claude and her love for the werewolf Richard. She is a fascinating series character because she changes so much.--Roz Kaveney

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Brilliant 2nd best book in series
I loved this book, I am a new fan of the anita blake series and I have read the first 5 books now in a matter of weeks. I loved Guilty Pleasures as this really brings you into the world of Anita and the great characters in the series and just has you wanting for more. But this book was the scariest of them yet and times a little gross but thats what you want from a vampire slayer style book. I just love the main characters in this book and I also love the developing relationship with anita and Jean Claude. I have read reviews on here of the later books and people have said the sex takes over a bit but I am not there yet and to be honest I cant wait till she actually does the deed with Jean Claude as its building for the last 5 books. I am facinated ... Read More:

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- Anita Blake is back.
Back to good old fashioned action here the sex takes a bit of a back burner for a true gore fest.
Anita Blake has been called out to deepest Missouri to raise some very old dead, to help settle a land dispute. But not only is there more going on in this dispute than meets the eye, while she is there she also gets involved in tracking down some extremely old renegade vampires, with some 'help' from Jean-Claude, but none from the local police.
The tone of the series is getting darker, richer and deeper with every book. At the start, Anita is just The Executioner, a vampire hunter sure of herself and sure that fighting the monsters is the right thing to do. Now she's not so sure that all the monsters are all bad, or even if she is still one ... Read More:

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- Not what I was expecting.
This is the 5th story in a series of murder mysteries set in America and works on the premiss that vampirism has been made legal after vampires have been given rights under the US constitution.

Anita Blake, the heroine of these book, is a bounty hunter, executioner (she's paid by the state to kill vampires who are sentenced to death) and zombie raiser (oh yes, these exist too). She doesn't entirely trust them, but given the way the world presents them, can you blame her?

In this book she's approached to raise a boat load of zombies, which naturally gets her suspicions up (who really needs that many zombies?), and she sets off to investigate.

All in all it sounds like an interesting premiss doesn't it? It's clever, ... Read More:

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- "Zombie, vampire or police?"
This series has been progressing nicely, and we have observed how the character of Anita Blake has evolved, become more complex and gained in abilities. In this book, she faces a new challenge, to use her animator skills to raise a whole graveyard from the death in order to settle a dispute over a plot of land. She is not sure she is able to deliver this request, but she does love a challenge!

Of course, the complications do not stop there, since while this is happening Anita has to deal with her dating reality. She is currently dating a nice high school professor, Richard, who also happens to be a werewolf. But since Jean Claude, the master vampire of the city of St Louis, also wants Anita for himself, she has promised to date both at the ... Read More:

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- Dark, sexy fun!!
This was the first Anita Blake novel I picked up. Thanks to this book I'm now hooked on the Anita Blake series. Absolutely brilliant, I haven't read such a good fantasy/horror book in a long time. However, the dark side was that it dragged a little but somehow LKH manages to keep the reader (me!) acting like an addict i.e. scrounging for more. I was incredibly happy that LKH wrote this book as I've been searching for such a complete series for ages, with a non-perfect hero/heroine, lust, sexual undercurrents and kick-ass moves. However,I admit I had to get used to a lot:

1. Anita resembles in stature, Buffy the vampire slayer. I mean I've always wanted a tall slayer

2. That Anita has ugly scars that don't really seem to bother ... Read More:

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