Synopsis : Obsidian Butterfly written by Laurell K. Hamilton, published by Penguin which was released on 24 September Download Obsidian Butterfly Books now! Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters, vampires, shapeshifters, anything and everything.
There are people like Anita who do it legal, but Edward doesn't sweat the legalities, or, hell, the ethics. He's an equal opportunity killer. Apr 18, Deborah Ideiosepius rated it did not like it Shelves: travestys , fiction , l-l-love-and-lust , supernatural , fantasy-sci-fi.
Well, I think it was number nine. After a while I realised that people who read Laurall K. Anyway, picked one up off a friends shelf and tried to read it.
It might work better if you start with 1 and work up but I doubt it. I love sex, I like engaging in it, reading about it or discussing it. I enjoy the occasional erotic novel and even soft porn on the odd legal occassion. Rarely have I found an author who can make se Well, I think it was number nine. Rarely have I found an author who can make sex boring but this novel did it. Not disgusting or anything just mind numbingly boring. If you have two hot guys even if one is a vamp and the other a wolf and one hot girl one would think it would be intellectually impossible to fail.
Not so, after a page or two of repetition I found my brain to be so bored it had slid away from the bed on the page to contemplate something more interesting - I think it was the laundry list. Mar 28, Diana Offbeat Vagabond rated it really liked it Shelves: paranormal , horror. There wouldn't be True Blood if not for Anita. Hell, as much as it pains me to say this, there wouldn't be Twilight if.
It for Anita. She is the original badass. Now I am aware of how people feel about the series now. But this does not mean I am going to stop reading the series though. This book is definitely different from the last eight books.
We are not focused on Anita,first of all, we are focused on Edward. Also, most characters that we are use to, Jean-Claude, Richard, Dolph, and more are nowhere in this book. Though Jean-Claude makes a "dreamy" appearance in this book. Now back to Edward.
He scares me and he is a psychopath, yet he is surprisingly likable. He does go for the bad guys at least I hope he does. But this book starts with Anita starting to pay Edward a favor after killing his even crazier psycho killer friend, Harold. She goes to Arizona to meet Edward to then find out he has a fiance with kids and goes by the name Ted. I honestly didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this, given how Edward is, if his "family" knew what he did, well that would be too much.
Anita, of course, knows the catastrophe that this will be and can't believe Edward is doing this not only to Donna, but to her little four year old girl and teenage son who saw his dad die. Yeah, that bad. So "Ted" called Anita to help solve a series of horrendous mutilations. People are being skinned alive, but they are not dead. No one can figure how they are alive and why they have been strange occurrences while they were skinned.
People just conveniently needed to leave their own homes to walk or something when these mutilations took place. So while investigating Anita meets Edward's backup. Olaf is big, German, and a rapist who just so happens to target women with Anita's characteristics. I am sure you can imagine this meeting. They end up meeting the Master of the City and her human servant after a disturbing stage display. If you are familiar with Anita's meetings with other vampires and their entourage, at least one person has their brains shot out.
But the meeting wasn't a total waste because she finds out Obsidian Butterfly the Master of the City is not the god she says she is and that he cryptic talk leads to a dangerous realization won't say, read the book. Anita also meets up with a fellow necromancer. He is as scary as everyone says he is a d has a thing for Anita. He also has a secret. But due to Nicky's stupidity the other necromancer , Anita and her gang are being followed by Ted's "friends" who want Anita to protect their coward of a leader.
There are a lot of things happening in this book sorry if my follow up isn't helping much, I don't have the book with me , but it manages to not feel cluttered. It moves in a nice pace. Some books are too slow to get to the drama or the action. This was just fine. I love that we find out the Edward isn't completely soulless. Tge other books really had me thinking otherwise.
Now I have heard the complaints about no Richard and barely no Jean-Claude, but I think this book was fine without them. It is what Anita needed to get things figured out but not necessarily straighten. She is attracted to Detective Ramirez in this book, but the thought of leaving her boys completely is a no-go. I honestly would have liked to have seen how Anita would be like dating a human.
I love Richard and Jean-Claude for sure, but still. I have read multiple reviews about this book and have seen the issues, but frankly, I wasn't disappointed. I like the turn this book took. It still felt like Anita. She is still on that line of cop and killer. That is what makes me love her.
This book kept to that. This book was full of Anita's humor, Edward's new found beating heart, monsters that have done things that I honestly had a nightmare about the other night and strange love well, I am nit sure love is the right word, hell not even lust is the right word.
Overall this was a great book in the series. I thought this was a great read and like I said, it is the Anita we know and love, just with a different perspective. Aug 03, Onefinemess rated it it was ok Shelves: fantasy , urban-fantasy. A nice change of pace with much less sex than usual yay! Don't get me wrong, I like sex, but man is it freaking overkill in some of these books.
MMmm author fantasy fulfillment much? It was a nice change seeing Anita almost totally out of her element. The rather unexpected character development for Edward was a nice touch too, and I hope to see it address again in the future. Especially the molestation thing I see what the author w A nice change of pace with much less sex than usual yay!
I see what the author was doing, but it seemed kind of out of place, especially considering the molester was just some human chic who we didn't even know had a predisposition to do this kind of thing. I figured out in this book I know, I know, I'm slow sometimes what we, as readers are supposed to be feel threatened by. I mean, obviously Anita isn't going to die, so we can't worry about that, her love life isn't going to suffer - it's only going to prosper - so we can't worry about that, we can't worry about damage to her vagina from giant horse penis anymore - book 10 showed that she can take that.
So what are we left fearing for? Her humanity. With each book she trades away a new piece, sinking if you view it as a negative further and further away from what is "normal". And, we as readers, can see why she rationally made each choice. But with each choice, and each boundary crossed, she is a little or a lot!
So I think that's what we're supposed to worry about - what will she trade this time to save those she doesn't really like but will risk not life and limb! As a result, we or me at least find less and less to identify with her as a character about. So instead of reading a story where we're sort of riding along with the character, now I'm just kind of sitting back and watching the train wreck.
Don't get me wrong, it's fascinating, but I really wonder how Hamilton is going to end this. Because she really should at some point. Maybe after Anita takes out the whole Vamp council and sits in charge of pretty much every supernatural being in the world? Sep 08, Fangs for the Fantasy rated it really liked it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
Or his alter ego has — reassuring Anita that what he wants in New Mexico is nice and legal. And a holiday away from her love life is probably not a bad idea. Dozens of people have been killed or mutilated — and the deaths are some of the worst Anita has ever seen. Anita has to find and stop the murderer even as the death toll rises. That means facing Aztec gods, a fellow necromancer, ancient vampires and a prejudiced police force — even before she gets to the monster itself, which can feel her looking for it, and is watching her.
The writing style of this book — indeed of this series — walks that line between being evocative, setting the scene and having that fun, snarky, hard boiled internal narrative that I so love and being extremely over descriptive, pointless and dull. And it really does convey the sense of place.
Sep 28, Marianne rated it it was amazing Shelves: audible , vampires , magic-summoning-witches-wizards , shapeshifters-weres-dragons-etc , urban-fantasy. Well, I've done it. I've gotten through the first 9, fairly smut free, Anita Blake novels by listening to them on audible or reading the comics instead of the actual books.
Now it's time to up the ante, to see how much or little I'll be enjoying Anita's upcoming ardeur and nympho side.
Unfortunately, it seems to have been too hardcore for the suits over at Audible, because poor Kimberly Alexis never got to impersonate even one of Anita's many lovers in the throes of passion. Too bad, I though Well, I've done it. Too bad, I thought she did a good job with Jean-Claude. Kimberly Alexis has really added an extra layer of enjoyment to the Anita Blake books. She's made me forget that Laurell Hamilton has a tendency to repeat whole sentences and paragraphs throughout the novels.
Truth be told, I'm sick of hearing about "so much meat", how small Anita is, and how used she is to having bullies trying to intimidate her by sheer size alone, or how she's prefers NOT to engage in casual sex. Edward has been an interesting enigma for so long, and I enjoyed reading about his alter ego. But surprisingly, the man who inched his way into my heart, was Olaf; the psycho mass murdering rapist. Makes me glad I don't fit his vic profile!
That letter he left her at the end? Made me almost forget Jean-Claude. Eeeh, time to dump his furry ass. Well, that's all. Bring on the ardeur! Feb 17, Jeri rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction.
As the author says this one is for all the Edward fans out there. And indeed, I am one of them. Right from the beginning I have liked Edward, even when all we knew about him was that he was a cold, mysterious assassin.
In this book we, and Anita, learn more about Edward's background. It's a fascinating story and full of the action that surrounds both Edward and Anita most of the time.
Anita takes another step in her personal growth in this book as well. Though she does spend a lot of time trying As the author says this one is for all the Edward fans out there.
Though she does spend a lot of time trying to determine if she's becoming a sociopath or if she is already one. It's darkly humorous as always. Well, this book was a whole lot of things. I hope Edward gets what he wants. He asked Anita for a favor on a case that was seriously messed up!
It would be one thing if he was a different kind of sort but he deals with vamps on a regular basis and it just feels wrong because what is the one thing they will do to get him to go after what he loves.
And well…. I love Edward so this book was fun for that part he and Anita work so well together. Also, Olaf is creepy!!! On to the next! Oct 31, LaTonya Reed rated it really liked it. I really loved the angle of letting Edward share the spotlight with Anita.
The deeper look into Edward gives us a better connection and how he became who he is. I was expecting a little more from Anita and at times she was so self righteous, she had me cussing!! Overall, the audiobook was great, and I'm looking forward to the reading the next book in the Anita Blake series.
Jun 14, Anna 'Bookbuyer' rated it it was amazing Shelves: to-sort , own , read , shelf-h , This was another excellent installment of the Anita Blake series. I love that this book is more about Edward. I think that he is Anita's one true soulmate non sexual of course. I love how they interact together and that they are so similar. Olaf scares me and frankly it also scares me that Edward knows him. I'm guessing that Olaf was in the same kind of group that Edward was in with the mysterious Van Cleef.
Bernardo was kind of forgettable in comparison to Olaf and the other newer characters. H This was another excellent installment of the Anita Blake series.
He didn't pop or shine and I don't think he was meant to. Nicky is a sick bastard. I can't believe that he created that monster. I can't believe that the Ulfric let him!
Obsidian Butterfly and the Red Woman's Husband were the most delusional vampires we've met so far. To think that they were gods! I always like learning about new cultures and especially old ones. It was a nice break from the more popular Greek theme. I was a little sad that Jean Claude only had the tiniest little scene in this book and it was in a dream and that Richard didn't show up at all but overall it was a nice break. Edit: August Things that stood out for me in this book.
Edward's other life. Obsidian Butterfly and her being such a powerful bitch The mummify of Seth The weird body parts and 'jewelry' decoration of the Red Woman's husband. Riker and his gang The worst was probably Peter and Bekka's torture. I am so glad they all the bad guys are dead. The most facination was probably Obsidian Butterfly. I wonder if she is as powerful as major series spoiler view spoiler [Marmee Noir? It was also interesting but also disturbing to learn about Aztec culture.
This was not expected and not well received. I needn't have worried at all. This one was so not par for the course. The story centres around Edward the notorious Bounty Hunter, a.
Death, and although Edward is an excellent character on the pages and one I had taken a liking to right form the start, this book Argh! Death, and although Edward is an excellent character on the pages and one I had taken a liking to right form the start, this book did not do him justice. Hamilton had so much room to work with Edward and I think she let herself and the series down.
We see less of the sexy stuff, which could be acceptable, and more of the mystery stuff, which also could be acceptable, but somehow neither worked. Anita is what she is and I don't know about you, but I do read these books for the love triangle that includes Jean-Claude and Richard.
Frustrating though it is at times, I enjoy the sexy bits. This time no Richard, and Jean-Claude only appears in a dream briefly. Hence this book being so far from the main storyline as it could get.
It was not a welcome change for me. I even found myself skipping whole paragraphs and some pages, just to get to the end. Part of me didn't want to miss anything, but that was more to do with the fact that I read eight books in the series now and felt I had a vested interest in it, not because it enticed me in. Not at all.
Boring, long-winded, and so not Anita Blake. This book could be missed quite easily and not affect the series one bit. So, what does this one get? I was the only one with a scenario for that, and even I would be relieved if the wicca practitioner seconded my opinion.
If she didn't, then we were truly out of guesses. What did I mean, the survivors weren't survivors, but the living dead? Bradley wasn't willing to leave Franklin as the ranking agent on site.
The geology maps were on the way, and I don't think he wanted Franklin in charge of the search. I didn't really think they'd find the monster. There had been no track. No tracks meant either it could fly or it dematerialized. Either way they weren't going to find it, not on foot, not with maps. So I felt free to go to the hospital. Another reason to go into Albuquerque was that Edward had found me a name.
A man who was known as a brujo, a witch. Donna had only given "Ted" the name on the condition it would not be used to harm the man. She'd only been given the name on the strict understanding that no harm would come to him. The one who gave up the name didn't want the brujo to come back and hurt her.
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