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    Serpentine: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
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    Serpentine: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
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    Serpentine: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

    Written by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Narrated by Kimberly Alexis

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    About this audiobook

    Vampire hunter Anita Blake has managed to overcome everything she faces. But this time there's a monster that even she doesn't know how to fight...

    A remote Florida island is the perfect wedding destination for the upcoming nuptials of Anita's fellow U.S. Marshal and best friend Edward. For Anita, the vacation is a welcome break, as it's the first trip she gets to take with just wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel. But it's not all fun and games and bachelor parties...

    In this tropical paradise Micah discovers a horrific new form of lycanthropy, one that has afflicted a single family for generations. Believed to be the result of an ancient Greek curse, it turns human bodies into a mass of snakes.

    When long-simmering resentment leads to a big blowout within the wedding party, the last thing Anita needs is more drama. But it finds her anyway when women start disappearing from the hotel, and worse—her own friends and lovers are considered the prime suspects. There's a strange power afoot that Anita has never confronted before, a force that's rendering those around her helpless in its thrall. Unable to face it on her own, Anita is willing to accept help from even the deadliest places. Help that she will most certainly regret—if she survives at all, that is...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 7, 2018
    ISBN9780525632504
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    Serpentine: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
    Author

    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 enjoyed this book. You may not know this, but I really like Laurell K. Hamilton's writing and have read most of her work. I did take a bit of a break from the Anita Blake series but I knew that it would be something that I would get back to at some point. I have read the first 22 books in the series so I did skip a few books before starting this one but it worked out well but I don't think that this would be a great starting point for readers new to the series. I am really glad that I decided to pick this series up again.I have often heard complaints from others about this series. People complain that the series is different than it used to be. That's true. It has evolved and Anita's life in book 26 looks nothing like it did in book 1. People complain that it is nothing but sex anymore. Yes, there is a lot of sex in these books even though there wasn't at the start of the series. Like I said, the series has evolved and sex is now a big part of the story. I can understand why the series may not work for everyone but it still does work for a lot of readers.One of the reasons I decided to pick up this book was that it is what I refer to as an Edward book. Edward is a character that has been in the series from the very beginning even though he doesn't make an appearance in every book. Edward is pretty much a badass that has always had Anita's back. I love it when Edward and Anita work together to solve cases and Edward's personal life has been more than a little interesting. In this book, Edward's wedding is the backdrop for the story.This book had everything that I was looking for. It had a really interesting case to solve with a paranormal being that was different than any I have seen before. I was able to catch up with many of the characters that I feel like I know from the previous books in the series. There were some scenes that really moved Anita's relationships forward a bit and a few scenes that let me chuckle. I thought it was a pretty balanced book in the end.I decided to listen to this book and thought that Kimberly Alexis did a great job with the narration. This is the first book in the series that I have listened to but I wouldn't hesitate to go that route in the future. The narrator did a great job of handling a rather large cast of characters and adding a bit of excitement to the story. I think that I liked this book just a little bit more because of her narration.I would recommend this book to fans of the series. I think that readers of the series will enjoy watching Anita and the gang navigate a wedding while trying to figure out what is happening to a family nearby. I do plan to read more from Laurell K. Hamilton in the future.I received a digital review copy of this book from Berkley Publishing Group via NetGalley and borrowed a copy of the audiobook from my local library.
    • 2/5
      Another installment of blabberporn. I think I missed a volume, but the agonizing over events I don't remember doesn't make me want to go back and fill in the lacuna. The motive for the murders is particularly lame and only serves to throw Anita and Olaf into troublesome proximity.
    • 3/5
      Synopsis: Micah is working with a family group to try to help them control their propensity to turn into snakes. Anita is getting ready to be in Edward's (Ted's) wedding, and the rest of the men in her life are getting engaged to each other or getting ready to marry her. The sociopath is back and he's now a werelion and appeals to Anita's lion.Review: There is a greater emphasis on 'relationships' than there is on the 'monster' story line.
    • 4/5
      This latest installment of Anita's adventures was different, to say the least. Instead of fighting vampires she's trying not to strangle Donna's maid of honor. She had more patience than I would have, considering this character is literally written to be hated. Each interaction with her was a struggle not to scream -though inwardly I did-. Most of the book is dedicated to making sure things go alright for Edward and Donna, taking away Nathaniel's dream first vacation with his loves. We see a different side of the normally content panther as he works to get what he needs. In all of it, there are a few murders, a detective with a bug up his derriere, and a mystery involving snake shifters that doesn't quite feel like it was solved by the end. All in all, this volume is more relaxed compared to her previous works, making it a refreshing change of pace.
    • 4/5
      Anita and Micah have been so busy traveling for their various jobs that Nathaniel is feeling neglected. Fortunately, Edward's destination wedding in the Florida Keys with his long-time girlfriend Donna is giving them a chance for a romantic getaway. But work is threatening to interfere when first Micah's job encroaches when he's called to bring an in the closet, but out of control, shifter home from the bar where he is drowning his sorrows.Then a young woman who has been flirting with Nathaniel and one of their bodyguards goes missing and is found gruesomely dead. One of the local detectives has decided that Nathaniel is guilty and is using a secret psychic power to get him to confess. When a second woman is kidnapped and she's a member of Donna's wedding party, Anita, Edward, Bernardo and creepy Otto are called in to locate her using Nathaniel in his leopard form as a tracker. They find her but two other young women disappear. Bringing together Micah's case of a family that believes they have been cursed which causes some of them to grow snakes from various parts of their body and their cop with his secret psychic abilities. Unfortunately, this situation with the kidnappings and people turning to serpents is almost overpowered by the relationship issues that are going on in the story. Besides the Anita, Micah, Nathaniel drama there is drama between Donna and Edward since she is very jealous of Anita and Edward's relationship. She is convinced, and has confided on one of her bridesmaids, that Anita and Edward are having an affair. The bridesmaid goes more than a little crazy and is determined to tell Donna's children Peter and Becca about the affair. Peter knows that there is no affair but eleven-year-old Becca needs to be protected so that her opinion of the man who has been her father since she was six isn't damaged. This was another entertaining episode in the long-running Anita Blake series that most fans will want to read.
    • 2/5
      Just about the worst of the Anita Blake books. Much more of a cheesy romance novel than a vampire hunter novel. Very disappointing!
    • 4/5
      I have always enjoyed Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series. It is well written and usually action-packed.Unfortunately, this book is somewhat different. This story has only brief action at the end. All of the rest of the book is discussion of relationships and descriptions of relationships. There is a murder and some supernatural interactions but no other real action.Of course, Ms. Hamilton is quite welcome to write about anything that interests her and I am sure many of her fans enjoyed reading this book. However, I did not enjoy it very much. It lacked the fast-paced action that I like so much and that she writes so well. I hope that her next Anita Blake novel will be the type of book I enjoy.
    • 3/5
      Half the time I enjoy the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels and half the time I wonder why I am bothering. Her polyamorous sex life gets boring after awhile. I much prefer a solid storyline than constantly going through who she is involved with this time. As for the story, Edward aka Death aka Ted Forrester is finally getting married to Donna. Micah, Nathaniel and Anita haven't had a vacation in a while so a trip to FL for the wedding is designated as much needed R&R. Instead they find themselves enmeshed in the mess that Dixie, Donna's friend is trying to create for Anita and Ted over an alleged affair that never occurred. On top of that, one of the local families is cursed with an unknown form of lycanthropy that allows snake heads to grow from their hair or their arms, etc, but not change the entire person. Add to that a detective with some unexplicable magic powers of mind control and things get tense for our 4 horsemen of the apocalypse (the four Marshalls: Anita Black, Bernard Spotted-Horse, Otto Jeffries, and Edward).
    • 5/5
      Excellent! Book was read with excitement. This young lady kept me on edge. I so enjoyed Olaf aka Otto's and Anita's interaction in this book. Her lion spoke to his. Mmm. What next? Horrendous creatures this time but you did feel sorry for them.
    • 5/5
      this books was hard for me to through, but I'm happy I stuck with it.
    • 4/5
      Honestly though, it was less exciting than most of her books. I felt like there was too much therapy talk and not enough action.
    • 5/5
      Laurell K Hamilton you did it again. Didnt expect it to end like this I actually wondered where it was going but as usually you blew my mind. I enjoyed this book alot and I loved the twists. Cant wait for the next Anita Blake novel.
    • 4/5
      Serpentine

      Enjoyed the story, read it in 2 days. But I have enjoyed other books in the series more. It was a good blend of private life and Marshall life. I am very interested in finding out what happens with Olaf in the future.
    • 3/5
      The latest book is set in Florida for Edward’s wedding. There are the usual bridal party problems with one of Donna’s friends convinced that Edward and Anita are having an affair and wants the kids to know. The wedding location happens to overlap with a group of snake shifters that no one has ever seen before. It works more like a genetic curse and eventually coverts the victims to a mass of snakes permanently. A woman goes missing from another wedding at the hotel and local police want to pin the blame on one of Anita’s men. So in a short space of time Anita needs to solve a murder, keep a wedding on track as Edward’s best man and deal with a surprise wedding guest. The plus side was Anita didn’t lose control of her ardeur and spend chapters feeding it with sex. Yes there is still sex and tons of talk about her relationships with her lovers, brides, and bodyguards.

      Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley
    • 3/5
      More character development. Not much to do with the central crime.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book, it was really good... Kept me wanting to listen more
    • 4/5
      Interesting story

      It was nice to see Anita getting back to more of the crimesolving stuff that showed up in the first books. The basic story is ok.