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Review of Incubus Dreams (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 12)
- Anita is pushed to her limits-both professionally and passionately-when she is called in on what appears to be a case involving a vampire serial killer preying on strippers.
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- As Incubus Dreams opens, Anita Blake may be America's most powerful vampire hunter and necromancer. So it's no surprise that the Regional Preternatural Crime Investigation Team seeks her assistance when a St. Louis stripper is murdered and the evidence points to unusual serial killers: a group of seven vampires. It appears a master vampire has gone rogue--and may prove too powerful for Anita Blake, even if she can gain help from not only her vampire consort, Master of the City Jean-Claude, but from the wereleopard king Micah, her other lover, and the alpha werewolf Richard, her bitter ex-lover.
It would be an exaggeration to say that Laurell K. Hamilton's Incubus Dreams is just one sex scene after another. This twelth novel in her bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series presents a wedding, a murder, and a lot of relationship angst before getting down and dirty on page 89; and the sex scenes pause on page 377 to let the mystery plot resume. The series deftly blends elements of alternate history, horror, romance, erotica, and mystery, but anyone reading Incubus Dreams for the murder plot is going to be frustrated. However, Incubus Dreams is a considerably stronger and more interesting book than its talky predecessor, Cerulean Sins, and fans will enjoy the many new developments in Anita's complicated love life. --Cynthia Ward
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Comments for Incubus Dreams (Anita Blake | Vampire Hunter: Book 12)
- Posted on 2008-05-24
Is this the same series???
After reading all these reviews, I though it was a mistake... the book couldn't be THAT bad!
well, I was wrong. What happened to the plot... suspense... the wonder? The only thing I was left wondering is who is left that Anita can have sex with?
I felt the need to read it because I've every other book in the series, so I guess you can read it if you want to waste your time. But please don't spend money on it...
EVERY situation Anita was in she had sex... maybe not "American" sex, but it's sex. And I don't mean ohhh sexy erotica sex, I mean I'm uncomfortable reading this sex. I think 95-98% of the situations Anita was in ended in some sort of sex/feeding. NOTHING could be simple... walking down the street was complicated. Having sex was complicated! Who, what, where, when, how, what does it mean... what does it means!?!? I wanted to rip pages out!!!
Please, Ms. Hamilton, explain in detail what everyone is wearing down to their unseen underwear. Please, Ms. Hamilton, explain Anita's every thought about everything even though it all contradicts. Please, Ms. Hamilton, tell me about Anita and how her powers keep growing and growing. I feel she has to reach God status in maybe two more books. In the other books she gained one, maybe two, more "powers". I think every time she had sex she got a new power in the books. I can't even count that on two hands.
The only thing I can give credit to, is that some of the characters know Anita is a dummy. So, obviously Hamilton knows Anita is a dummy (she could fix this...). These characters stand up to Anita and tell her to shut up and think like a normal person.
It's just too bad she (Anita and Hamilton!) don't really listen.
Score: 1
- Posted on 2008-05-18
Abridged Story Lessens Your Pain But Not Much
I first heard of Laurell K. Hamilton and Anita Blake Vampire Hunter on a toy collector's forum a few years ago from a fan of the series. I picked up Guilty Pleasures, the first book, and rather enjoyed. Now fast forward a few years. I just picked up the audio version of the book Incubus Dreams, which is book twelve in this series not having read the other ten books in between. So I had high expectations for this story.
I finally finished the audio version of Laurell K. Hamilton's Incubus Dreams. Thank god I was listening to the abridged version (only 10 discs) instead of the unabridged version (24 discs). Twelve hours of this droll was bad enough I don't think I could have made it through thirty hours.
So what exactly did they cut out of this story for the abridged version? I thought perhaps major plot points were dropped. But according to the reviews I was reading about the book that might not be the case. So did they must have cut out some of the sex or perhaps the sexual scenes had gone into to more graphic detail than what I was getting. I don't know and I have no intentions of finding out.
I will read her earlier works (I loved Guilty Pleasures when I read that a few years ago and now in comic book form from Marvel), but I don't think I will bother with any of the books beyond this one. Incubus Dreams is 12th in the Anita Blake series so I will have plenty to check out before I finally give up on this author.
If I wish to read (or in this case hear) pure Vampire/Werewolf erotic fantasy I will look for books like Deep Inside: Extreme Erotic Fantasies by Polly Frost. With Anita Blake I was hoping for a Vampire mystery with a little sex in the mix, not that the entire story would be filled with only sex. We lost the whole aspect of any mystery or case a few chapters into this storyline and never got it back again until the very end of the book. Everything in between was one sexual experience after another. We had characters come and go too easily without any story development. What happened to the Vampire servant Damian? Anita f--ks him and he has a complete vampiric break down only to drop out of the story completely without resolving the problems brought on by the encounter. That is only one of many, many flaws with this story. The story ends with what else, more sex and the mystery is left unresolved. Not that I will be picking up book 13 in the series any time soon to see if this author bothers to fill her readers in or not.
My suggestion is to stay away from this story. Go ahead and read the earlier works of this author but don't bother with this book. Even better check out the comic book version of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures (at least she is actually hunting vampires, raising the dead and dealing with werewolves instead of just f--king them all).
As I said I was listening to this story. I did not yet touch on the flaws in the audio version, which is published by Brilliance Audio and read by Cynthia Holloway. Cynthia does a good job of rendering the characters and keep our interest even if the story can't. My biggest problem with the audio version is the production. The publishing company Brilliance Audio sees fit to add unneeded audio at the beginning and end of each disk. Most people today take their discs and turn them into MP3s, which is what I did and that is why I found the fade in/out music and notice to put in the next disk a real distraction. Combine that with the repeated two or three lines of text from the previous disc and the annoyance only compounded. So drop the unwanted extras from your audio discs and maybe they will be easier to listen, although even that would not have helped this story.
Score: 1 - Posted on 2008-01-20
WOW (in a bad way)
First off, this is the lowest review score I have ever given I dont usually do bad reviews...I dont know where to start but to say others arnt exagerrating this book is not up to the standards of the others. I will admit I wanted there to be more sex, more bedroom type fun ;) I had no idea that when it came everything else would suffer a GREAT deal! She screwed everyone and please no more its "tight...he's so big" please ANITA stopped being tight a while back lol and lucky her all her men are sooo biggg. So is it worth reading, yeah its barely ok, I would try to get it from a library im selling my entires series...I will continue to read it probably im very forgiving but its just not the same she has a Harem of supposably ALPHA males who are complete chumps,sex toys, and weak....WOW...and WOW what the heck is up with Anita the only way I was able to finish it was to Skim.
Score: 2
- Posted on 2008-01-01
WoW!
There are porn directors out there that are saying " This book needs more plot and a little less sex". I do not know how I actually got through half of this book , but I did and it was one big sex scene. There was about a page and a half devoted to a mystery, but after that it is Anita and the "ardeur" all the way. I sent this book back to the library ( I have not spent money on an Anita Blake book since " Obsidian Butterfly") unfinished, which is something I rarely do. I did decide to check out " Danse Macabre", and it seems to be better. There is still way too much time on the stupid "ardeur", but wayyyy less than " Incubus Dreams". My advice to a reader is to skip " Incubus Dreams" and either go on to "Micah" or " Danse", because this book does nothing for any of the characters and does not add to the storyline whatsoever. Or, if you want to be really smart, check out a new author like Keri Arthur, Charlaine Harris or Kim Harrison. They do some really solid work in the supernatural/mystery/romance line.
Score: 1 - Posted on 2007-12-22
Anita, get dressed already.
A really weak book.
Practically no plot and way too much sex.
Believe me, I don't begrudge Anita her sex life with all the beautiful and supportive were-men. I was delighted when she overcame her prudery and hang-ups - how long can you whine about a cad that ditched you back in college, after all.
This book, however, really overdoes it. First there are hundreds of pages of "we have to talk" scenes and endless discussion of everybody's sexual needs. Then there are hundreds of pages of sex. Towards the end there is (finally!!) a mention of bad guys and a brief visit to a crime scene that solves nothing.
I really wish Anita would put on some clothes and go back to work.
Score: 1
