All the books I have ordered have been great! They are in good condition, were easy to order, and came earlier than expected! Thank you!

You will be disappointed. I started this series a while back. The first few books were really violent, action-packed, and while there was no sex, there was a "romance" heating up. I liked them. Then, there were a few books where the sex started but the books still had pretty good story lines. THEN the books just became a bunch of sex, intermingled with an angry chick who overpowered anything else. And the last few books became just sex. If you see my review history, you'll notice I don't mind sex at all, but these scenes were monotonous, ALL THE TIME, and almost always happened the same way. It got so tiresome. The plot became nonexistant, boring... and Anita Blake became just SO unlikeable that I completely lost interest and felt I had wasted a ton of time reading crap, and was let down because I got halfway through the series, enjoying it, just to keep reading bad books HOPING it would get better- for at least 8 books! Just save yourself the heartache and find a better series, although you won't find a good one that has this many in the series. ;(

Laurell K. Hamilton does to vampires what most do not do - makes them real; makes them true characters - not those depressed, brooding, stereotypical vamps I tend to see in the fiction and romance section. She makes these vampires true to life beings - some are cocky, others sentimental, some are depressed.

Anita is a phenomenal character. She's a half Mexican necromancer who knows what she wants, and the in's and out's of every mythical creature out there. She has spice, and a good head on her shoulders. Most importantly, she doesn't swoon over the advances of every hot vampire she meets, including Jean-Claude. Anita was unlike any leading lady I've seen.

I remember getting a gift card for my birthday a few years ago while in high school, and I bought a 4-pack of LKH's Anita Blake series (1-4). I slightly regretted it, being that they were longer than I was used to reading, and hoped that they wouldn't end up somewhere in my room, one half-way read, and the others, untouched. By the end of my school year, I had not only read the four novels in the pack, but went on to book 5.

LKH makes the usual goth-subjects of vampires, and werewolves - even zombies! - seem like run-of-the-mill characters we see in every day life.

Definitely worth a shot!

I really tried to read this book. Really. I've read all of the Twilight series and the Night World books. I've watched all of Underworld and like many things supernatural, but this book didn't do it for me. I didn't feel any connection to the main character and I feel like I wasted a lunch hour trying to read it again. I've read 11 chapters and I'm about to donate it to the library without completion.

I like my heroines to have some semblance of human decency, some bit of female sensibilities, an iota feminine intelligence. Anita Blake is a all hard nosed show-off with a Napoleonic need to cut people, vampires or any other paranormal being down to her size; who loves the fact she has to figure out ways to hide her big phallic guns and weapons; and who never knows the value of silence when faced with being who don't like a smutty mouth MINNIE MOUSE giving them a verbal finger.
This is the reason why this book makes a better graphic comic novel than a "romance" or a horror book.
If you want to ENJOY reading about real female characters in vampire romances, read Robin McKinney's SUNSHINE, Jeaniene Frost's HALFWAY TO THE GRAVE, Jacqueline Frank's JACOB or J R Ward's DARK LOVER. The female heroines like Sunshine, Cat Raven, Isabella Russ, Beth Randell in those books can kick butt and be real women at the same time, unlike anita blake.