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| Original Title: | The Lunatic Cafe |
| ISBN: | 0425201376 (ISBN13: 9780425201374) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4 |
| Characters: | Anita Blake, Dolph Storr, Zerbrowski (Anita Blake series), Jean-Claude (Anita Blake series), Richard Zeeman, Edward "Ted" Forrester, Jason Schuyler, Bert Vaughn |
| Setting: | Missouri(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for Longlist (1996) |
Laurell K. Hamilton
Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 4.12 | 70819 Users | 1351 Reviews
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A dumb girl in love with both a vampire and a werewolf? This sounds slightly familiar...
But, hey, this book was written first so I have a pretty good idea on who might have had the original idea.... (I'm smart like that.)
I liked this book slightly better than the last one. Anita is still pretty annoying, but I can still appreciate a few things about her.
I crossed my arms on my stomach. A psychologist would have said I was closed off, uncommunicative. Fuck them.
See, I like that!
In this book, we have Anita trying to solve a case in which several shapeshifters have gone missing. She is also trying to figure out her relationship with Richard, a werewolf. Things get a little hairy with him.. (haha, hairy...see what I did there?) Strangely, for a girl who made a big statement about the fact that she won't date monsters, she is sure singing a different tune all of the sudden. I will go out on a limb here and say that humans dating animals is creepy. And, Richard definitely showed himself to be an animal in this book. His reaction to a very disturbing "snuff film" was equally disturbing.
Hey, crabman!
But, for some reason, that doesn't scare Anita off. And, now she has agreed to date Jean Claude, the vampire king, at the same time as her wolf-man. That is one scary threesome.
Edward is becoming one of my favorite characters in this series. He is such a heartless mercenary, and yet he has a soft-spot for Anita. It cracked me up when he told Anita why he was following her:
"Following you around lets me kill a lot of people."
That's very true, because as I have mentioned before, Anita has a big mouth and ends up having multiple attempts on her life in every book. Any bloodthirsty killer would love to follow her around and kill all of the people who are trying to kill her. He gets to look like a hero, all while fulfilling his murdery dreams. It's a win-win.
I hope Edward will keep showing up in the next books, but I have a feeling that there might be a point where he gets hired to kill Anita. I will actually be on Team Edward at that point.
Describe Containing Books The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)
| Title | : | The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4) |
| Author | : | Laurell K. Hamilton |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2005 by Berkley Hardcover (first published January 1st 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Vampires. Romance. Horror. Paranormal Romance |
Rating Containing Books The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)
Ratings: 4.12 From 70819 Users | 1351 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4)
One of my first book I read that starting me reading Vampire books. I remember being blown away by the female character in this book, I had never read anything like her before. Also the idea of having a female character that is truly in love with two completely different men, and she is allowed to have both of them! Yeah we need more books like this. This is really a great series, at least the first 11 books are great. Way better than anything written by Stephanie Meyer. HA!WHYYYY are these books so bad? They have potential. A lot of potential. But instead of focusing on what is absolutely necessary in a 25+ book series, namely, character development and world-building, Hamilton focuses on action scenes and a whole bunch of stupid, pointless plot that keeps the story moving but gives us nothing.I finished this book less than 48 hours ago and I can hardly remember anything that happened. There were a bunch of shapeshifter action scenes, lots of Anita just being a
So I just finished it. I have to say I've started to not like Anita already. First of all, there was hardly any Jean Claude and the bits we did get pretty much sucked. How can she prefer a wolf over a vamp? Reading about how Werewolves changed was pretty gross. They don't just blow up into a ball of fur like in the Twilight series. LOL. Besides no Jean Claude, I noticed how she just kills people just because. Richard noted that and although I think he sucks with her, he had a point there. A gun
It's a bit sad how Hamilton has some decent storylines, but manages to deliver them so poorly and secondary that the main point of this novel is a date-off between Jean-Claude and Richard. It doesn't really get any more superfluous than this - I hope! Considering there are still 13 more books to this series, I fear it probably will. Anita went from "ok, she is not Buffy, but at least she's a bit kickass" to being just an ass. She's completely self-righteous and probably the biggest monster of
I freely admit that I have problems with Hamilton's writing. You see, she has a great gift for tense plotting and engaging writing. But instead of utilizing her talents, she turns her books into ridiculous will-they-won't-they soaps. Basically, this book was all about Anita facing off Jean-Claude on the one hand and mulling over Richard on the other. And the back and forth of that quickly became more than annoying. The plot itself - the search for the killer - took what? 60 pages? Everything
4.5For some reason I can't seem to get bored of this series. Even more, I can't wait to start the next book to see what happens :D
Plot:1) Client walks into Anita's office and asks her to do something. She refuses.2) RELATIONSHIP DRAMA!3) Dolph calls her to the scene of the crime.4) Someone attacks Anita for no good reason.5) The most disgusting crime scene EVAH!6) MORE RELATIONSHIP DRAMA!7) Oh, crap, there's a plot we're supposed to tie up. Okay, well, X does it.8) Jean-Claude/Richard tries to get in Anita's pants. Anita makes stupid agreement.9) BIG SHOWDOWN.These books are getting formulaic. I guess if the formula were a
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