Micah (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 13) |
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780515140873
ISBN: 0515140872
Label: Jove
Manufacturer: Jove
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2006-02-28
Publisher: Jove
Studio: Jove
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Editorial Reviews:
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There are lots of reasons to raise the dead - some private, some public. In this case, the feds have a witness who died before he could speak on the record. They want him raised so his testimony can be taken. So here I am, on a plane to Philadelphia, flying off to do my job.
But I’m not alone. Micah is with me. Micah, head of the St. Louis wereleopard pard. King to my Queen. The only one of my lovers who can stir my blood with just a glance from his chartreuse cat’s eyes. I was happy to have him at my side.
Until he mentioned that this will be our first time alone together. No Master Vampire. No Alpha Werewolf. Just me and Micah. And all my fears and doubts…
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Definitely My Last Book in the Series
Comment: What a waste of time & money! This will definitely be the last book of this series for me - maybe even from Laurell Hamilton in general. I have not been happy with the last few but kept reading thinking perhaps it would get better & there would actually be a plot (or at least a different one)that would capture my interest again. Even the sex is predictable & somewhat boring - I found myself skipping over it just to see if there was anything else going on in the book. No such luck! I have never submitted a review before but felt compelled after yet another disappointment.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Surprising
Comment: Yes, I'm surprised by the 4 stars, too.
Particularly after reading Mrs. Giggles' review, I expected more of the same dreck we've been getting from LKH for the past several books.
And there was still some of that tone of juvenile snickering about sex which gets on my last nerve, and some of her way-over-used phrases (spill, for example).
But the angst is considerably reduced, and Anita's actually doing her job instead of bed-hopping.
The POTM* escalation didn't bug me, because that's been happening all along in the series.
I'll still never like Micah--I absolutely cannot stand a yes-man. Seriously, something about the whole concept just creeps me out, and makes me want to hurt them.
I suppose I can accept that that's what Anita wants--or maybe I'm just so relieved she's not whining about it that I don't care anymore.
Anyway. I do understand the people who felt cheated for paying $8 for a novella, but I bought it used, and I'd already been warned about the length.
I'm still not convinced about reading the next book, but this one wasn't nearly as bad as I'd feared.
* POTM = Power of the Month--a frequent complaint on the LKH email list, referring to Anita's habit of exhibiting new powers suddenly and inexplicably.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Short and sweet
Comment: I finished this one in an afternoon, a very pleasant afternoon spent curled up in a recliner, reading about sex and love and the undead, with murders being solved and new ones occurring, an averted procreation emergency, and secrets revealed all over the place. It was fun.
This was the shortest and easiest of the Anita Blake books I've read so far; it most likely should have been called a novella, since the 280 pages was a stretch: the font was larger, the printing had more white space as well as headers and footers, and there was a title page for each chapter, blank but for the chapter number. Reminded me a little of a student essay that doesn't quite hit the requirements. But going into it with the expectation of a shorter story, it was very nice, a little friendly visit back to Anita's world before moving on to something else.
The story was fine, with Anita going to her most annoying zombie-raising to date. It's for an important mob informant who had a sudden heart attack before he could testify, and so there is a judge and two sets of lawyers present at the raising. The raising starts off bad, because this is the first time Anita has walked into a graveyard as old as the one where the informant was buried since her triumvirate reached a new power plateau, and so the dead begin whispering to her, trying to goad her into raising all of them -- or perhaps not; the whispers are not coherent. The pressure she feels, however, is, and there's a great suspense scene where Anita is trying to move the whole raising along so she can get it over with and leave, and the lawyer trying to delay the proceedings -- we assume for the sake of slowing down the conviction, but it turns out to be for a much nastier reason -- while the judge slows everything down even more simply because he is a bombastic pedant, and demands Anita explain every step of the procedure in proper legalese, with proper respect to the court, of course.
The unusual aspect of this plot was that it actually wrapped up quickly once the action started -- and what's more, Hamilton skipped the bloody scene. For maybe the first time in these books, Anita was simply knocked unconscious at the beginning of the fight, and when she wakes up it's all over. I was a touch disappointed, as this has been one of the draws for me -- the fact that Hamilton goes into glorious, gory detail with all of the bloody bits as well as all the sex scenes -- and there was a detailed sex scene earlier, but at the same time, it felt like a nice bit of balance: there is no way that Anita can make it through every single fight she gets into without being sidelined at least once. Accidents happen, and sometimes, no matter how good you are, the other guy gets in a lucky shot. It was nice to see that happen.
So part of me wishes it had been longer, and part of me was glad I was able to move through it so quickly. In the end, I just liked it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Short Story of Sex and Micah
Comment: That's it. Really. Were you expecting more? There isn't anything more. No, I'm not kidding.
MICAH is a very short novella put into book form to make Ms. Hamilton more money. And no, I'm not kidding about that either.
Thankfully, I like Micah, although I don't think there are too many more descriptions that the author can make up to describe his physical characteristics. He's not that tall, but he's big where it matters, is hotter than hot, and can have sex as often as Anita needs. Which, we all know, is basically any time she's not unconscious.
I'm glad I read it, because it's part of the series. But the only thing I learned that was new is how Micah became a wereleopard and what happened to his family.
That's it. Really. I tried to tell you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: If I close my eyes, will it go away?
Comment: (sigh) Laurell, what's happened to you? Is putting out a book a year draining you too much? There's no excuse for this.
Micah is a novella dressed up to look like a full novel. The plotline is barely there, the characterizations are shallow, and everything just seems wooden & unlikable. The book is actually just as cheaply done as anything else, as the spacing is overdone in order to stretch out a 100-ish page novel out into 300-ish pages. If this had been published as a short story I wouldn't have minded the barely there plotline or dull characters. But as a novel, let alone as an actual numbered book in the series? That's unforgivable.
I can only hope that eventually things will improve. As it is, this book contributed to why I no longer purchase her books anymore and why I no longer have read anything after this book.
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