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Obsidian Butterfly (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #9)
By : by Laurell K. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
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ratings reviews : 1,443
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Original Title : Obsidian Butterfly (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #9)
ISBN : 9780515134506
Edition Language : English
Series : Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #9
Mass Market Paperback, 585 pages
Published September 24th 2002 by Berkley Books (first published January 1st 2000)
Characters : Anita Blake, Jean-Claude (Anita Blake series), Richard Zeeman, Edward "Ted" Forrester, Olaf Gundersson...more, Bernardo Spotted-Horse, Bradley Bradford...less
Setting : United States of America
Description : The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter backlist takes flight with a whole new look.In her ninth adventure, vampire hunter Anita Blake owes a favor to a friend-a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face.
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REVIEWS :This was the last Anita Blake novel worth reading, primarily because of Edward. The rest of the series has been garbage (including Edwards' return. Seriously, what was his body count in the Harlequin, one? Maybe?). I don't have a problem with the sex, but Hamilton has sacrificed that literary device thingy called 'plot' in order to pack the pages with smut. Something happens, they have sex for five hundred pages, then the Ardeur snaps it's fingers and kills the badguy.In terms of characters it's Obsidian Butterfly: A Review in Two PartsAnita Blake returns home to a phone call from Edward. He's calling in a favor and needs her to come to Albuquerque, NM to assist him in a job. She goes to find that there have been several gruesome murders, the victims left horribly maimed. Who is performing these crimes and how far will Anita go to stop them?NOTE: I have VERY DIVISIVE feelings about this book. Therefore, I have split this review into two parts. One part will probably appeal to those who This book is a vacation from Anita's usual life because she travels to New Mexico to help Edward, the assassin, solve a case. So, no love-triangle b.s., which is nice.When arriving in New Mexico, Anita discovers that Edward is engaged to be married to a very naive widow with two adorable children. Edward's nickname is "Death", and he likes killing things. So, the idea of Death getting married bothers Anita.give it a few years, Death, and you'll be wishing for your namesake!So, Anita gets all up This is the book where Laurell K. Hamilton lost me as a reader. I love the early Anita Blake books, because they are police procedurals set in a fantasy world. But somewhere along the way, the menage a trois between the three main characters (a necromancer, a vampire, and a werewolf) overspread the pages like a nasty rash of suspicious nature. In the books after Obsidian Butterfly, Anita is having sex with every were creature available, the detective elements have gone out the window, and I 4 Vampy starsTo begin with I have to say that this book is one of my favorites from this series. It is quite true that I have several emotional changes during Anita Blake's books. For several reasons I love and hate this series but the truth is that I have never been bored for a minute while reading one of the series' books! Why I love the books 1) Anita Blake is a woman who can mesure up almost to every man or woman she comes across either human or supernatural and that makes an interesting I really wasn’t excited about this book. All I wanted was to skim over the paragraphs so that I could get to the next book of the series, Narcissus in Chains as quickly as possible! And then it hit me … mutilated bodies and Olaf. You need to read this book to understand just how messed up my opinion is of his character. He’s dangerous. He’s deadly. And Blake is just his victim type. I like him! Total turn on .. go figure. Obsidian butterfly is a fantastic book filled with torture, essence First read: June 2006Initial rating: 5/5 stars *favourite*Re-read: October 2017New rating: 5/5 stars *favourite*I have one strong memory of reading Obsidian Butterfly the first time around and that is that the book was just so good I couldn't put it down. Any second I had to read, I picked it up and devoured it. I ended up reading the 600 odd page book in a little over a day.In contrast, my re-read was incredibly slow; almost two months from start to finish, but I found it just as enjoyable as Finally, it's Edward's book!A 4 1/2, not quite a five because Anita's badass attitude grates here and there but so much better than the books focused on the triumvirate (sp?) and sexy times. Obsidian Butterfly is all business, no sex. This is the book the Edward fans were clamoring for and it was worth the wait. This book lets us in on Edward's secret life when he calls in Anita to help out with a series of grisly murders. She learns he's living another life where he is known as good old boy Did you know that once you unfreeze meat, you shouldn't refreeze it? It goes kind of squishy and rotten.People's faces freeze and unfreeze so much in this book, it's insane. Masks, monsters, blah blah blah. Oh, and there's a giant hulking threatening rapist, so that's good. Anita does her usual routine: show up, act like a total asshole, hit/kick people, threaten them with guns, posture and stomp off, all arrogant and full of herself. This woman should be dead a thousand times over. She is a This is one series where the reviews are as entertaining as the books are. I love reading the reviews after I've finished the book. For this particular book, people either loved it for hated it. And I am leaning toward the love side. Even though Jean-Claude wasn't in this one (and I find him very entertaining) I didn't mind. This is probably the cleanest one yet. I liked that this wasn't the same-old, same-old. We got to see a more detailed look at Edward, which I liked. There were also some Last AB I read, I think, in 2000. Stil pretty good, but on the decline. From others, I gather the later ones get REALLY bad. Edward, the empty-eyed sociopath who haunts the outskirts of Anita Blake’s life, is arguably the most interesting character in the Anita Blake series. A man of mystery, obviously dangerous, Anita values his occasional assistance and has a wary respect for him. When Edward calls in a favour that Anita owes him, she knows she has no choice but to go give him a hand.The actual mystery portion of the book is predictable and rather uninteresting. The reason that I enjoyed this book so much was “She'd been punishing people for the same crimes for five hundred years. It was impressive in a psychotic sort of way... I'd told people that I'd chase them into hell to have my vengeance, but I probably didn't mean it. Itzpapalotl would mean every word.” This is the very best of Anita Blake; straight bad ass bounty hunting Blake with Edward's crew of shooters. The novel gets her away from Missouri to New Mexico: Edward's/Ted's home. It's exciting to see pieces of the man behind the I liked this installment of the Anita Blake series. Edward was kind of different in this story - (view spoiler)[he became a family man even though he is a ruthless killer and bounty hunter (hide spoiler)]. I liked Olaf (well not liked him, but liked the character) and Bernardo. I thought it was so funny when Anita was in the bar and said Bernardo (view spoiler)[was circumcised then the barkeep made him drop trou to see if she was right, and Anita couldn't help looking at his manliness and it was.
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