Flirt: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

February 3, 2010

I am a huge Anita Blake fan. That said, I realized that this was a short story (like Micah), before I purchased it. Anyone who has been reading the series should have realized that this was just a short story, and will be followed with a new full length book this Summer. Honestly, I enjoyed the book. I definitely could have used a bigger Anita Blake \"fix,\" but I knew it was going to be short going into it, so I can't complain. The plot was more than adequate, and it was a very engaging short...

January 26, 2026

Anita goes all out to save her boys from a pride come to kill so she uses her power in an all out blast to save not only her life. but them and to send a message that to harm her loved ones is stupid. )

October 7, 2012

I found this book quite enjoyable. One of the things that has recently started to bug me about the Anita books is the over saturation of sex. It has been bordering overboard, just filler. That's not quite accurate, though because the love Laurelle puts into her writing, her spirit is poured into these sequences of the story, and many of them are important parts of the story for her character's development, and for plot. It is just that there is more to Anita than her hungers, than the men she...

February 11, 2010

I have read all the Anita Blake books. Some of the recent ones were convoluted. This was was tasty and satisfying. Short, but delicious. The plot made sense. A guy wants his wife raised from the dead and goes to great lengths to force Anita to do so. The new characters are satisfying and fit in with the existing cast. The regulars make a short appearance but the story is not about them. It is about greed and how Anita deals with the effects of that. As always, she kicks ass and picks up a new...

March 6, 2010

Flirt was a repeat of laughing corpse. I guess Laurell thinks we won't recognize the whole raise the army of zombies from the cemetery bit. In Laughing Corpse, Anita is asked to raise a ancient zombie by a millionaire. She refuses. He hires thugs to force her with the help of a voodoo priestess. Using a Machete Anita kills two of the thugs and using the power of their deaths to summon an army of zombies to kill her enemies. Her friends arrive at the end to find Anita okay. Laughing Corpse is a...