Flirt: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

There is good and bad when reading LKH. The good is that she's built a solid world and characters that I, for the most part, like to spend time with. The bad is that I really wish she would get (a better) editor. Some phrases were used again and again, some scenes the same. The book could have been tighter and more enjoyable.

Anita's been collecting animals to call for a while, and she does that through sex. You accept that if you're reading one of these books, and I do. This time the animal she collected is tied to her in a way that was obviously not his (or really her) choice. That's something explored a bit in this book, and something I'm looking forward to seeing explored (though not in a sexual way) in further books.

I was a little reluctant to read this book. Only because Anita Blake is one of my favorite characters and I just couldn't get a handle on where the author was going with a title like Flirt. I was pleasantly surprised even though it's on the shorter side of an Anita Blake novel. I believe that this book shows just how much Anita has changed emotionally. She's come a long way since Guilty Pleasures. While she is still the cold blooded killer of the past it begins to show a more vulnerable side of her that I can relate even better to. It's nice to see that she hasn't lost her kick ass attitude and has learned to open her heart more than she ever believed she would be able to. I think this will be a nice lead into Bullet and I can't wait for that one to hit the shelves.

I liked it. It's just super short.

Anita meets with a woman who wants her to reanimate her dead husband so she can take a horrendous revenge out on him. Anita flatly refuses. Anita also has a client who wants her to reanimate his deceased wife and when she turns him down, he reacts badly and has her kidnapped. Micah, Nathaniel, and Jason, as always, provide good supporting lines and character to the story line; Jean Claude and the rest of the vampires are a no-show in this novella however; much the pity in this readers opinion, but still overall the storyline keeps you reading.

Set in a Rhode Island fishing village-cum-resort town, the narrative focuses on a family of hardworking restaurateurs. The action revolves around Cass Keating Medieros, the youngest granddaughter of Sheila and Eddie Keating, founders of the family's successful restaurant . Though Cass and her fisherman husband Billy have been "madly in love since eighth grade, and proud of it," their marriage has begun to show the strain of caring for their partially deaf daughter Josie. Meanwhile, their teenaged son is experiencing his own first grand passion; Cass’s parents contemplate selling the restaurant and Cass's embittered sister, Nora blossoms when romance unexpectedly comes her way. These and other engaging subplots keep the narrative sailing briskly along; frisky sex scenes are another plus.

A wonderful story read in a very smooth voice and manner. I love audiobooks for driving and for going to sleep. This one is PERFECT for both!! Anita is a strong, talented woman willing to do whatever it takes to save her family. She is also willing to do whatever it takes to make the situation turn out for the best for her family. I love that. She never sits around waiting to be rescued !

Anita turns down two resurrection jobs back to back because the people paying request unethical outcomes. Shortly thereafter she is taken hostage by two werelions who have been contracted to force her to raise the dead via human sacrifice. If she refuses, they'll kill Micah, Nathaniel, & Jason. Also, as luck would have it, Anita's lioness is in heat so matters are unnecessarily complicated. Naturally, Anita fucks one of the werelions, permanently adopting him, turns the tables on the dopey bad guys and saves the day by raising a whole cemetery.Perhaps because this novel is blessedly short, I found it much less awful than earlier installments. It's not much of a story, and the stakes are so low there is absolutely no tension. Jean Claude literally doesn't even have a speaking role in this one. An extremely pointless and unasked for addition to the canon.

Another in the Anita Blake Vampire hunter series. This one has her turning down a couple of jobs at the beginning of the book. This leads to her being kidnapped by a pair of were-lions. This one is a short quick read in comparison to some of the others in the series.

This one was hard to rate. I enjoyed reading more of Anita's job, but I basically just skim the sex scenes. Will continue the series because I must know how it all ends, but I have to say I'm not as excited about the books as I was when I first started the series.

AnitaDay job client that she refuses comes back and threatens her families life and takes her to hostage to rays his dead wife. He hires two werelions Jacob And Nickey to help in the deed. They tangled with the wrong girl. It was a very short read.

Best of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels that I've read in a long while, primarily because the story did not focus solely around sex. It was concise, engaging and interesting: Anita is forced to raise the wife of a mulit-zillionaire from the dead against her will in order to protect Micah, Nathaniel and Jason.

Flirt feels like a bare bones outline of a great Anita Blake novel, or a story belonging in an anthology. It's short, without enough complexity, depth, or duration for a stand alone novel. Had I purchased this book rather than getting it at the library, I would be sorely disappointed.There's less sex than many of the more recent Anita Blake books, which will delight some readers who tired of it, and annoy others who appreciate the erotica aspects. Hamilton focuses on Anita Blake as animator, which is fun to return to, but she falls into her trap of "Anita as accidental harem accumulator". What is it, between 7 and 11 men she's strongly emotionally and metaphysically tied to? I'd love it if instead, she could really develop the relationships between Anita and a few guys instead. I'd love to see more of richard, jean-claude, asher, micah and nathanial, less accumulation of new boys whom we barely get to know, and without this abandonment of the old ones.

Ms. Hamilton seems to divide her Anita Blake novels between writing about sex and writing about violence although all of her books have some of both. This short novel is more about sex and paranormal powers. The book did involve a tight situation with Anita unarmed and outnumbered and out of contact with her friends and support. The result was a bit different than I thought it would be but not really surprising.The book was well written as aways but it was a short book. There was some extra material in an afterword and cartoons but I would have preferred a longer book. If you like the paranormal and/or Anita Blake then read this book.

I've been a huge fan of the Anita Blake books - up through Obsidian Butterfly (book 9 in the series) these books rule. They're smart, funny, feature interesting premises and scary situations and, like it or not, everybody writing "urban fantasy" these days owes a debt to Ms. Hamilton. The problem is that after Obsidian Butterfly Ms. Hamilton became less interested in the cool stuff she'd been writing about and became more interested in writing really mediocre soft-core porn. This was hugely disappointing for many of us who are her fans (although it must have made her happy because she kept doing it).The end result of this decline of the series was that I stopped being someone who pre-ordered every book and became someone who read them when they came available at the library. And yes, I'm still reading them. I keep hoping that the next one will be better, you see. The one prior to this, Skin Trade showed some promise of the author allowing her character to return to her former interesting self. This one, while barely a novel - more a lengthy short story - is also somewhat better, but honestly most of the problems are still there. The author is still overly enamored of her own perceived hotness and still allowing that perception to destroy her ability to write and tell a good story.I just realized that with the next book, Bullet, there will be potentially be more books in the crappy Anita Blake column than in the cool Anita Blake column. I'll read the next one, but if it's as mediocre or as purely terrible as most of the rest of these, I'll stop reading these altogether. What a bummer.

Well I was a little unhappy about the size of the book. But i also must say it was a nice short story about a typical Anita work day. The story over all was good. Not a bad read just short. (Good thing i got it with 40% off coupon) I must say that I am really hopeing that the next book is very think in size. I miss Richard and all his drama and Im craving me some Jean-Claude and Asher as well.

I wasn't expecting this to be so short (it's more of a novella than a full novel, kind of like Micah, the book that introduced that character to the series), but it is better and less frustrating than this series has been in quite a while. Shorter means fewer characters and Hamilton can stay more focused on the story instead of the drama. The characters still spend way too much time talking and arguing and explaining, but as Anita says at one point in this book when she doesn't fully understand something that's said, she's finally learning to let things go.

She's getting so heavy handed in her writing, we were on page 35 and had walked from the office to the restaurant, and they were flirting with the waiter, but the author doesn't know how to flirt, she, like Anita, is too heavy handed for sexual tension or flrtation, it's all about being hit over the head (or shot with a bullet) with Anita. But the last half was much better than the first so it got to 3 stars. I hate how Jean Claude is a side character in her books now. At the end she writes that she's written 29 books in 15 years, and it's showing... 6 months per books is too short, t hey are reading like first drafts. She needs to let them cook for a little longer, maybe give up one of the series, or only write one book a year, because she has something, but it's getting harder and harder to find it in her books...

At long last, we see Anita getting back to her roots.This book is short and a bit...bare.. by current standards because it is a bonus book. It was never meant to be written, but she hit a brick wall writing Merry Gentry - and learned from Micah & Blood Noir that she needed to stop and jot the storyline down... the rest is history.The story was inspired not by anything in 'Nitaverse, but by an extraneous experience by the author, which she faithfully reports in Chapter one.From there the story twists into a light, fun Blaken avenue.At long last we see Anita animating again - but.... she is the best of the best, so all of the bad guys who want something slightly shady or extremely difficult done come to her.When she refuses, they persuade her (Do it, we our sharpshooters start picking off your men).Will she mange to extricate herself, or will she have to Sacrifice the White Goat and possibly join her zombie in the grave??? Can she save her friends??

I should say up front so you can evaluate my review that I greatly enjoyed the first 8 or so of the Anita Blake books up to around Obsidian Butterfly. I'm one of those that believe the series badly went wrong with the ardeur with it's have sex or die imperative and books filled with so many chapters of sex scenes, that if you took them out, you wouldn't have wordage for a short novella. I have been able to at least read and finish the prior books though, even if with decreasing enjoyment--this is the one I just can't see as at all up to a professional standard. Just in terms of a good return for your money, other authors would include a story of this length with other shorts--here you're paying a hardcover novel price for a novella. Second, it's more and more tiresome to read the defensive convolutions the author goes through explaining the heroine's lifestyle and defending it. I find the heroine more and more unlikable with each book and this might finally be the end for me. This is the first Anita Blake book I couldn't bear to finish despite its short length.

meh. Just okay, really short. I did realize that I miss Richard, all his complexities that were becoming annoying are missing for me. The series has been REALLY hit or miss after the first seven or eight books, so I guess that we will see what happens with the rest of it.

Anita is learning interpersonal communication skills (a.k.a. flirting) very slowly. But in this case more glowering and less p.d.a. behavior just might have kept her and her sweeties out of trouble. Of course, then there wouldn't have been a story, would there? Basically, someone very powerful want Anita to raise the dead. She's opposed to the idea, but the very powerful don't generally take no for an answer - and Anita's not one to like having her hand forced. Collateral damage occurs.Slimmer than most of Hamilton's, this one really could have been compressed into novella form. Although I have to say, the cartoons at the end were cute.

This was good, but it was really short. I was disappointed that after waiting that long we weren't getting more story. I would have also like to see more of the characters that we love, and less of Anita adding to her dance card. I feel like if she keeps adding more people, we won't have meaningful story-lines with any of them,

I am a fan of the Anita Blake series but I was a little disappointed in this book. Well first of all it was a quick read for me. I waited for another book and then it didn't last very long so that was the first disappointment. I felt that the story was rushed. It didn't have the same feel as many of her past books. I felt rushed through the story and that there was a lack of detailing to some of the characters, except when it came to describing the bodies of the opposite sex.

Anita is back to being an animator! But that part of the story needed to be fleshed out and the whole flirt storyline needed to go away. Her animator powers are so interesting; it would be nice to have a whole, longer book dealing with that side of Anita's powers. And where is Jean-Claude? He hasn't been in, what, the last three books now? I miss him.

This is a "bonus" book to the series - an idea that refused to go away and got written quickly. It doesn't show in the writing though, and the extras at the back, relating the process of the writing and the event that triggered this idea are interesting and well worth reading.As so often with Anita these days, there's a lot of simmering and actual violence and fast action, deftly handled as always. There's less than normal metaphysical sex which is nice because it means there's more story, but the metaphysical sex is there, with a nice twist too.I prefer the longer books, but this was a good addition to the canon.

I actually quite enjoyed this little foray into Anita's workday. For once a good balance of action and sex.

Thankfully short. Hamilton explains she wrote this as it was blocking her other work, I had something blocking my toilet but I didn't publish it.

A bit smaller than her other books but worth the read, most library's have this one too .

This is a shorter entry, a novella if you will, in the tradition of book number 13, Micah. It was a fast read and, I hope, signals a return to the zombie-raising butt-kicking Anita Blake of the early books. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed the series all the way through. I just prefer Anita when she's not trying to be all soft, conflicted and introspective. A little of that goes a long way, and in this book she was all hardcore strategy, I-will-kick-your-ass deadly. Very satisfying.

Why do I keep doing this to myself? I keep promising to wait for a library copy or buy it in paperback, but I keep failing and buying a hardcover version. And it is SO not worth the money. Still, this one was better than the last. Only one sex scene in 157 pages. Still, sex with a stranger. Weird that the heroine went from discriminating to pretty much sleeping with anything in pants. I understand that she's supposed to be a succubus, but really, it seems almost a trite plot convention to get her in the sack with as many men as possible. And did this remind anyone else of Meredith Gentry - hot blond guy with only one eye? I would like a book from Hamilton that has all the characters in it ... the wereleopards - not just the main ones - the whole pard, the werewolves (not Richard, he's annoying, but the rest of the pack), the vampires, etc. And I'd like a book with a plot. Something along the lines of [Obsidian Butterfly], [Burnt Offerings], or [Blue Moon].