Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty PleasuresFirst off, let me tell you where I'm coming from with my reviews. This way you have something to base your reading of my reviews on.
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Title: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures #12 of 12
Cover: Beautiful. Excellent coloring. Portrait's the interior story well. ****
Interior Art: Not my favorite style. Well done though, just not what I'd like to see personally. There is a very vivid and some would say grotesque fight scene between Anita and Nikolaos. Imagine, if you will, a teenage girl's head partially severed and dangling to the side, blood everywhere, girl on woman fight. A+ for visual affectivness. ***
Story dialogue: This is where this series has excelled! I haven't read the novels by Hamilton that this series is based upon, but I want to. And that's what this series has done for me. The dialogue is well written and the storyline is easy to follow. *****
Letters and page Layout: *****
Emotions invoked: If you like vampire stories, this is right in line with the best of them. Lot's of action and that feeling of exotica found on the corners, but never quite reached. Suspense with a tad bit of tease please. ****
Rate: 4.2/5