The Harlequin (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series #15)

by Laurell K. Hamilton

Overview

 

Into Anita Blake's world-a world already overflowing with power-come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101147108
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/05/2007
Series:	Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series , #15
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	608 KB

About the Author

Laurell K. Hamilton is a full-time writer and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the Merry Gentry series. She lives in a suburb of St. Louis with her family.

Hometown:

St. Louis, Missouri

Date of Birth:

February 19, 1963

Place of Birth:

Heber Springs, Arkansas

Education:

B.A., Marion College

Website:

http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/

Editorial Reviews

For most of us, harlequins are mischievous, mythic figures, nimble tricksters who entertain us with cartwheels and other acrobatics. For vampire hunter Anita Blake, the word carries a drastically different connotation. No one speaks of The Harlequin; the word is forbidden unless you have been contacted and to be contacted marks you for death. To save herself from this seemingly irrevocable sentence, Anita Blake must enlist the help of Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire of the City; alpha-werewolf Richard; Shapeshifters Nathaniel and Micah; and Edward. Dark, erotic action.

Hamilton just keeps getting better and better.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

[Editor's Note: This is a combined review with BLOOD NOIR]--Vampire hunter Anita Blake returns in Hamilton’s popular series. Narrator Cynthia Holloway does little voicing, and this approach works well because most of the story’s characters are male, and male voices are a challenge for her. Still, her wonderful delivery has lots of inflection and feeling, and her treatment of the erotic scenes in Hamilton's work is exquisite. The book is replete with a multitude of “were-animals”—from rats to lions, tigers, and leopards, as well as the traditional werewolf. Holloway’s use of a variant pronunciation of this key word form throughout is a distraction. Still, this production will succeed with lovers of vampire fantasy, especially those who enjoy Hamilton’s treatment of eroticism. M.C. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

DECEMBER 2008 - AudioFile