Guilty Pleasures
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Laurell K. Hamilton
Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... “What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today
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Author
Laurell K. Hamilton
Pages
272
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published Date
2002-09-24
ISBN
051513449X 9780515134490
Ratings
Google: 4
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"I'd like to say this book didn't age well, but it wasn't that good in the first place. I read this book 15+ years ago. I was scrolling through my goodreads history and I couldn't remember reading this book or why I gave it 2 stars. So I decided to re-read it thinking 40 year old me would feel a lot differently about it than 25 year old me did. Nope, DNF.<br/><br/>Anita is awful. She's:<br/>1. Homophobic - she was checked out by a woman at a party and thought to herself that she would rather die than hook up with her<br/>2. Ageist - "did you know when you smile you get little wrinkles around your mouth? You are over 40, aren't you?"<br/>3. Fatphobic/superficial AF - "She was around fifty, or maybe a hard forty. Very blonde hair framed a plump face. Even money the blonde came out of a bottle... The flat black of the negligee was kind to her figure, but not kind enough. She was overweight and there was no hiding it. She looked like a PTA member, a Girl Scout leader, a cookie baker, someone's mother."<br/><br/>... and probably more but I stopped reading after #3. If I wanted to read someone judging everyone's appearance I'd just go hang out on Reddit. Nothing in this book was interesting enough to make me suffer through all that to finish it."
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