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Rent Incubus Dreams (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 12)
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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Abridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Published: Oct 2005
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $9.99
Pages: 688
Synopsis
As Incubus Dreams opens, Anita Blake may be America's most powerful vampire hunter and necromancer. So it's no surprise that the Regional Preternatural Crime Investigation Team seeks her assistance when a St. Louis stripper is murdered and the evidence points to unusual serial killers: a group of seven vampires. It appears a master vampire has gone rogue--and may prove too powerful for Anita Blake, even if she can gain help from not only her vampire consort, Master of the City Jean-Claude, but from the wereleopard king Micah, her other lover, and the alpha werewolf Richard, her bitter ex-lover.
It would be an exaggeration to say that Laurell K. Hamilton's Incubus Dreams is just one sex scene after another. This twelth novel in her bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series presents a wedding, a murder, and a lot of relationship angst before getting down and dirty on page 89; and the sex scenes pause on page 377 to let the mystery plot resume. The series deftly blends elements of alternate history, horror, romance, erotica, and mystery, but anyone reading Incubus Dreams for the murder plot is going to be frustrated. However, Incubus Dreams is a considerably stronger and more interesting book than its talky predecessor, Cerulean Sins, and fans will enjoy the many new developments in Anita's complicated love life. --Cynthia Ward
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Reviews
incubus dreams by laurell k hamilton is a long book… 722 pages with small print… This is another Anita Blake novel, and in all these pages, solving the crime really seems to take a back seat. It gets done, mostly, but the focus is Anita and her burgeoning powers. In some ways, I loved this book, and in others I didn't. Each of the Anita books gets a little more farfetched, more p**n-like… the fact that Anita and half the people in here get their powers from sex means that she spends most of the book doing something with some guy or another. It's funny to remember that way back at the beginning of the series, she was totally celibate. I did enjoy this book because a lot happened. So much time is spent working through all the hangups that Anita and other characters Richard, Ronnie have… I know this is not real life, but Anita's speech about everyone needs to go to therapy and how much it's helped her, and seeing how much she has grown as a person… really sells the whole therapy thing to me. I know most people won't see it, but I've always identified with anita. She's what I'd be like, if I were a necromancer who knows martial art, knives, guns, has new special powers, and is a vampire slayer. Definitely. LOL. But because of this, it makes me want to work through my issues and get on with life the way she has. Hmm. Oh, and ps, I still don't like richard. Blech.