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    Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

    Written by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Narrated by Kimberly Alexis

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    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 20, 2009
    ISBN9781101079461
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    Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
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    Laurell K. Hamilton

    Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the New York Times bestselling Anita Blake series and Merry Gentry series. She lives with her family in St. Louis, Missouri.

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    • 4/5
      I worried that this book might be more sex than story; it in fact was no sex and a great story. The writing style was a little bit raw; many plot points and "familiar" characters were introduced with no foreshadowing or prior mention, and the sentence structure seemed only to vary in dialogue. The plethora of characters was surprisingly easy to keep up with, and believable aside from being unnaturally attractive (the exception was a chubby girl who Hamilton stripped of all dignity). The following books are sure to be more risqué, but I've braced myself and look forward to meeting these characters again..
    • 5/5
      Great book. Can't wait to read the second one! :)
    • 4/5
      I adore this series! What I love most is that the 'monsters' aren't hiding in the dark somewhere. They're walking around and riding the bus and shopping and teaching your children... and they have rights (mostly). Vampires are people too(?). But if they step out of line? Anita Blake, raiser of the dead and executioner of bad vamps, is called in to carry out their death sentence.

      I loved Jean Claude right away. He's sexy, suave, and doesn't sparkle! From this first book, I hoped Anita would hook up with Jean Claude... I had no idea just what was coming!
    • 3/5
      2.5
      I realise that this is a really popular series and I'll admit the second half of this book was better put together than the first, suggesting that the latter books might be better than this first one. But I spent that first half of this book completely lost and wondering what exactly was going on. I came back here to GR three times to verify I was actually reading the first book in the series, because there were so many references to past events and people she knew kept popping up unexpectedly.

      The book also kept leaping from place to place, activity to activity, etc. It was hard to keep up with. Further, it felt very much like Anita kept putting herself at pointless risks. Should I be surprised that she was attacked by vampires when she's hanging out at the vampire bar? I mean, she's not known to be on good terms with any of them.

      Being as the book felt like it picked up in the middle of something it also felt like the Anita's character development must have been left somewhere in that missing first half. She felt incredibly flat to me. Yes, she was pleasantly sarcastic and I enjoyed that, but the book ended and I didn't feel like I had gotten to know her at all.

      I'm also baffled by the fact that this is considered a PNR by many. It's certainly what I went in expecting. From reading reviews I see that quite a lot of sex must come in at some point in the very lengthy series, but this book is bone dry in the romance department. There is a person who, if the standard PNR trope holds true, will likely become a romantic interest at some future point, but there is no spark here. None. Nada. Nothing.

      Needless to say I'm disappointed.
    • 4/5
      Anita Blake raises people from the dead and, on the side, hunts vampires. Lately there have been vampires being murdered. The high ranking vampires hire Anita (a.k.a. The Executioner), to find out who has been killing these vampires. This puts Anita in some tricky spots, as she will likely be killed herself if she can’t solve these murders.

      I wasn’t sure what I was going to think of it, but it was pretty good. I do like vampire/supernatural books, but I wasn’t sure how far into erotica she was going to go. I hear there’s more of that later in the series. For now, I might continue reading some of the Anita Blake books, until she gets too much into the erotica angle.
    • 4/5
      Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series. I ate this series up. Beware that it gets darker and kinkier (oftentimes bizarre) as the series progresses. You'll know by the first book if this is your type of thing. If not, stop here. I thought it was fun to get absorbed into this strange little world.
    • 5/5
      It's been so long since I first read this book that I forgot how much I enjoyed Laurell K Hamilton's writing. I am going to re-read the entire series before I hop over to the faery series.

      This book has everything a girl could want in an urban fantasy...guns, knives, zombies, vampires, were-rats...I could go on but there really is no need. I love the world that Laurell built in this book and the amazing character of Anita. I'll keep reading..I know it goes off the rails a bit but it will be nice to see where it ends up after all this time once I'm through.
    • 4/5
      I read this book because I'd seen a lot of Laurell Hamilton quotes on Goodreads and they were funny. And certainly this book had many funny parts, as well as a decent whodunit. It reminded me of Sue Grafton's Alphabet Mysteries series, except with vampires and zombies and so on thrown in. But will this be enough to make me pick up the rest of the books in the series? I'm not sure. So times books in a series disappoint me because they all blend together and nothing really changes.
    • 3/5
      I admit it...I'm a sucker for vampire books! This was entertaining and my first foray into the Laurell K. Hamilton series. I am looking forward to reading the whole series!
    • 3/5
      I wasn't really expecting to like this, especially since she's a vampire hunter. I ended up really enjoying it, and at some point I'll probably track down at least the next in the series. The thing with Jean-Claude has definitely peaked my interest. I'm wondering if there are prequels that come up later in the series, and honestly, I hope there aren't. The background info was fine, but I'm not interested in knowing any more about it.
    • 4/5
      A tough, principled heroine in a gritty urban fantasy world. Weres, vampires and risen corpses are no secret--and just barely legal. Mystery, adventure and fantasy all tied together in one short, fast-paced book. It's good, but stop reading these books soon--they get bad fast.
    • 3/5
      Hmmm…. Well I liked it and I didn’t like it. It kept me interested and flipping pages, but I didn’t like the writing much and Anita is not my favorite character by a long shot. She’s a little too over the top for me. The writing wasn’t very creative, just straight forward with some odd grammatical structures tucked in there. I think the idea was for it to sound like Anita is talking to the reader; since in real life we talk in fragments all the time. Reading it that way however didn’t fit quite right for me. But like I said, the plot was interesting enough and the book short enough that I could get through the book without too much of a fuss. I know I will be reading the next book. I’ll give it a few books and see if it gets better.
    • 5/5
      I fell in love with this book from the begining and couldn't put it down. It is very good. The story was great and the characters we're thought out and well put together. Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series is a must read.
    • 2/5
      i've read one other book in the anita blake series... one that comes much later... it was also ok... i guess i was really hoping for more depth... ?? ennywho... it's very easy to read and if you like fiction with vampires thrown in it and some comedic timing, this may fit the bill... :)
    • 4/5
      First book in the Anita Blake series, its also one of the best. Anita is an animator (zombie raiser) and vampire executioner in St Lois.This is a reality where vampires and shifters are real and legal citizens.After being blackmailed into investigating a series of vampire murders by the current master of the city, Nikolaos she ends up on the wrong side of the master and must help Jean-Claude, vampire manager of a supernatural strip club to defeat her. Great fun,not a serious read but good for when you want a quick but entertaining read.
    • 3/5
      Guilty Pleasures is a vampire novel in the urban fantasy genre, the first in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton. The series is based in and around the city of St. Louis, where the heroine works as an animator, someone who raises the dead. To the vampire community, she is simply known as “The Executioner” because she has killed dozens of rogue vampires who need to be brought to justice.The novel is in the “hardboiled detective” genre, and Anita Blake bears much resemblance to Sue Grafton’s character Kinsey Millhone: a no-nonsense woman doing a no-nonsense job. She is tough, no nonsense, hates seeing her friends hurt by her own actions--the usual stuff for a genre like this.Guilty Pleasures takes its name after a vampire strip club, where we meet a number of the incidental characters of the novel, and where Anita Blake becomes embroiled in a murder mystery. Someone in the city is murdering the city’s powerful vampires, and they want to know why. We meet Jean-Claude, a vampire who will be featured more heavily in future novels.The primary antagonist is a thousand-year-old vampire in a child’s body named Nikolaos, who rules the vampire underworld through fear.The writing is solid, but not exceptional. The plot moves along nicely. My only gripes are with the character development. Anita Blake is, frankly, not a very likeable character. She is framed by all the things she dislikes: he hates blackberry pie. She can’t stand vampires. She is annoyed by her pager on vibrate... and the list goes on. Aside from her private detective friend Veronica, she has no close friends, and one wonders why Veronica bothers to hang around with her at all.The vampire world itself is very dark and chaotic. Nikolaos is near-insane in her despotic rule over St. Louis, and is presented as, basically, an evil creature without a redeeming value whatsoever. This doesn’t sit well with me: I prefer my villains with a little psychological meat on their bones.This was, by all accounts, Hamilton’s first novel, written in 1993, and time has worn the story around the edges. It seems odd that she has no computer, and that she uses a pager, and there are no cell phones. The novel holds up quite nicely though, and as an adventure, managed to keep me interested enough through its 260+ pages.I will be reading the second novel in the series. My wife assures me that Hamilton gets better as a writer, and Anita Blake becomes a more interesting character.
    • 4/5
      There is an Unshelved cartoon out there that compares Laurell K. Hamilton readers to drug addicts. It is unfortunately true. I can't quit her. If you like VampFic you have to check out this series. But don't be like me and stop somewhere before Obsidian Butterfly. Otherwise you'll be forced to continue on even though they're not really novels anymore just one continuous erotic story. Well written erotica, but still. Just say no.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book! There was mystery, horror, and hilarity...all the marks of a good book!
    • 2/5
      Audiobook. I never really got into it. I think I am over-saturated with vampire type stuff. I'll stick with Sookie when I get the urge to read something in this genre. I doubt I will read any further books in this series since it just didn't hook me.
    • 2/5
      As far as vampire in the open books go...I prefer Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series. I felt very lost reading Guilty Pleasures, most of the time I had no idea what was going on!
    • 3/5
      Three and a half stars for this one.

      This book is about a kick-ass vampire killer/animator. I think the book would have been a little bit better if Anita had actually had any emotional attachment to any of the other characters in the book. Instead she is pretty much a loner. That probably works for her chosen career, but doesn't give me as much as a reader. It also contained quite a bit of gore, but I guess that goes with the territory of being a vampire killer.

      The book is very fast paced and is quite action packed and an overall pretty good read. I just prefer a little more emotion and, quite frankly, I am getting bored with vampire books.

      Still I liked Anita and it was a good story.

    • 1/5
      Thoroughly disappointing. Bland characters, uninteresting story, utterly unoriginal even for it's time, and a heroine who's more of a whiny little emo than kick-ass vampire hunter. I often find myself siding with the bad guys if the hero starts to get on my nerves, but these bad guys were so lame I couldn't even be bothered. Avoid!
    • 3/5
      My introduction to the Anita Blake series began with "Incubus Dreams" which, after finishing, I immediately decided to start at the beginning to read what seemed like could be an interesting personality development series. So I went to the bookstore and bought the first four books.Obviously, after reading "Incubus Dreams," I was shocked to see that Anita started out as a fairly untouched little prude who has serious issues with anything pertaining to the supernatural or vampires. Both her attitudes towards vampires and towards sex didn't seem as odd in this book as they will in future books, so I will admit that having read further into the series before starting the first colored how I read the books.This was a good introduction into Anita's sphere, a world built off of the idea of an alternate history based on the supernatural being real and not just myth or legend. Anita is an established animator (which is who she is), vampire slayer (which is something she does), and preternatural expert-on-call for the Regional Preternatural Investigation Team (which is really more of a sideline in this novel, though it plays a much larger role in future novels). Anita is approached by an old human friend turned vampire about solving the recent slew of vampire murders that have occurred in Saint Louis. When she refuses, the Master Vampire of the City turns to more inventive methods of convincing Anita that she should solve these crimes. Because of Anita's absolute insistence on never doing anything that could cause an innocent harm (a very central theme to the entire series), she is drawn into the underworld. There we meet several vampires, including Jean-Claude (who, while a somewhat minor character in this novel, becomes a very important character) and the current Master of the City, Nikolaos; the rodere pack of wererats, including their king (who becomes a fairly major minor character and one of Anita's good friends); a werewolf; strippers; Edward (hitman for the preternatural--humans just weren't good enough); and an assortment of other characters who turn up in various books. This novel sets up the fairly standard Hamilton method of writing Anita books--background is set up, nothing happens, nothing happens, and then suddenly in the last fourth of the books, everything explodes and suddenly there's a conclusion. Don't get me wrong--there's action all the way through, and it's a fun read. But it can be somewhat disconcerting to feel like you're getting down to the wire and still no closer to a conclusion than you were before (though I'm sure that's what Anita feels like most of the time). I enjoyed reading the book. It's not my favorite in the series, and if I had begun with it I don't know that I would have continued reading. It doesn't have enough of a draw into the full preternatural world that we come to expect in later books. I also feel like there were a couple of inconsistencies (if vampires have to have an invitation to enter someone's domicile, as shown vividly with Jean-Claude in a later book, why is Anita so worried that vampires have broken into her home?), almost as if Hamilton hadn't finished fleshing out the details of how some of the preternatural works in her world. However, it was still a great introduction into Anita's world, and it was fun to read.
    • 3/5
      My reasoning for picking up this book was one that happens to me a lot. I have worked in a bookstore for 3.5 years now, so after awhile when you see a book for long enough you convince yourself it might be interesting. In the case of the Anita Blake books, there are like 20 of them, so I see a lot of damn covers. Here is the bottom line on this book: it is so terribly written. Hamilton writes like a 14-year-old that doesn't understand the finesse of the English language, or the difference between inner thought and conversation. It was incredibly painful to read at times because you know that Anita could actually be pretty kick-ass if only she had better PR. However, the world that Hamilton has created here is really interesting. And the characters, even though their mouths are not connected to their brains (Hamilton), are somewhat endearing.It is for the world that I have decided to move on to the second book. But it's books like these that wish books could be more like movies, where another author could come along and write a re-make and give Anita the personality and world that she deserves.
    • 3/5
      Vampire Hunter, Ma Petite, The Executioner, Animator, those are the many titles Anita Blake goes by. Pulled into a case where Anita is forced to find out who or what is killing master vampires, she can't help but keep those she cares about at bay. Bringing harm unto herself is one thing, but unto her friends? Not an option.When I first started reading Guilty Pleasures, I was forcing myself to keep going. "Keep reading, Ana. Keep reading." And so I did. I felt the first half of the book was moving really slow for me. But being me, I gave Ms. Hamilton the benefit of the doubt, telling myself "This is the first book of the season, it's introducing you to a whole new world. Stick with it!" And so I did. About a little more then halfway through, the book started to pick up. I was eager to find out what Anita did next and whether or not she was gonna stake those vampire and laugh in their faces! Anita Blake's character is someone to admire, other then her high tolerance for pain (good lawd no!) she has a good head on her shoulders. She's bad ass and a highly trained killer! (of vampires of course) There are a few things I liked & disliked about this book. What I disliked would have to be, while reading, there seemed to be a whole mess of characters being thrown in my face. I felt like every other page I was introduced to someone new & I was trying my damnedest to keep up & commit them to memory. A few times I had to step back, flip back a few pages (or chapters), flip back to the page I was reading, re-read that page and then finally remember who the hell Zachary, Phillip, Bert, Irving, Winter or Edward was, okay not Edward, because I liked him from the moment he was mentioned in the book. Now, what I did like, I liked when the book picked up it's pace and I started to get hooked. Despite the many characters, I felt they played their part and played it well. I loved the wererats, although I couldn't quite picture them in their were-form. I kept seeing rats running around, but some of the wererats in this book were huge. And I just couldn't see them being bigger than a shoe. I would recommend this book. Although, I do think it was kinda slow when it started, I did enjoy it and fled through the rest of the book once I was hooked.
    • 4/5
      What kept me interested was the humor - just when I would feel like the story was mired in horror and weirdness, Anita would make a funny wisecrack or observation and I would be hooked back in. I enjoyed it enough to try a second book in the series.
    • 5/5
      This book series started out excellent. I'm not into "chick books" as it were, but this was had enough action and a dominant female charachter that was no joke. It was like a pulpy detective novel with a vampire twist. I've read them all, but I don't want to put the rest in here because after about the 4th or 5th book, they fell off and I didn't like it.
    • 5/5
      I've read this book many times. I've also listened to it many times. Even though this is not my favorite narrator and there are additional music and stuff that I don't like in my audiobooks, I enjoy this story/series enough to over look it.

      I love this series. I think Anita is a kick ass heroine. Jean-Claude is oh so sexy. I love the characters. There are some things that drive me crazy. We get a little too detailed on descriptions, clothing and people, especially eyes. This is true for the entire series. Once again, these issues do not detract from Anita and her friends.

      LOL moment.
      "I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack."
      "The coffin?"
      I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box'.
    • 4/5
      I've heard both good and bad things about the Anita Blake series (particularly the more recent installments), so I wasn't sure what to expect when I started Guilty Pleasures. I was pleasantly surprised with this quick, readable, and fun supernatural thriller. I'm often turned off by hard-ass female heroines, because their "toughness" comes off as forced, but Anita is a very likable heroine. Some of the vampire characters were pretty stereotypical, particularly Jean-Claude and Nikolaos, but that didn't negatively affect my enjoyment too much. I had a good time reading this book, and I'll be picking up the next in the series.
    • 5/5
      This is an amazingly imaginative book. Anita Blake is an intense, power-packed heroine who raises the dead for a living. This fiesty female is also a licensed vampire executioner, working closely with a supernatural police squad - the "Spook Squad." Guilty Pleasures has a fast-paced plot and is filled with intrguing characters : Jean-Claude - a "tall, dark, and handsome" vampire with old-world charm and style; Edward - a tough-as-nails bounty hunter and one of Anita's friends (or is he?); and Veronica (Ronnie) - a private investigator and Anita's best friend and exercise companion. Read this book for a true guilty pleasure.