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Grave Surprise - Charlaine Harris

July 29th 2010 10:57

My sister loaned me the 2nd in the Harper Connelly Mysteries series.

Harper's job at the start of the novel is to read a cemetery for a skeptical professor and his anthropology class. Not only is there the surprise that she is correct on every grave but, she also surprises everyone, including herself by finding a little girl she had searched for two years before.

I liked it - the relationship between Harper and Tolliver is starting to strain because Harper gets a surprise in her own brain/emotions, which is interesting...kind of know where that is headed but, not sure how it could be handled well.

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Grave Sight - Charlaine Harris

July 25th 2010 13:59

My sister loaned me the first in the Harper Connelly Mysteries.

Harper Connelly was struck by lightning when she was a kid - she survived the weird accident but, came away with the unique talent of being able to sense/find dead people. Harper and her brother Tolliver travel the country making a living off of this talent. The first of the series takes the pair to Sarne, Arkansas to find a missing teenagers body. Usually, the job entails finding the body, collecting the fee, and getting right back out of town but...something is doing on in Sarne and Harper and Tolliver end up right in the middle of it.

I liked it - the brother/sister relationship is comfortable but still realistically sweet - they stabilize each other in the midst of the crazy townspeople.

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Bullet - Laurell K. Hamilton

July 24th 2010 10:55

I borrowed the hardback of the 19th in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series from the Library.

The 19th in the series starts out at a dance recital with several of the team included in the cast. Although, there is the somewhat normal/ordinary recital attendance, the normality does not last long. The supposed dead Mommie Dearest reaches out and makes a new kind of appearance. Richard is also back on scene, having seemingly worked out his personal issues and is ready to support the triumvirate, which is good timing, as Mommie Dearest is set to take over them and the rest of the vampires. This episode has Anita, Jean Claude, and the team not only working to save themselves the their immediate companions but, also basically the entire country and possibly the world.

I loved it - I'm not sure I can buy in to the saving the world thing yet but, I'll be reading it again in the next few days for that to sink in more but...you get a lot of character development in this one for several of the emotional characters, especially Richard and Asher, which really rounds out the cast well. Plus, you get some new info on a couple peripheral team members, as well as glimpses at even more newcomers. Warning for conservatives - another steaming one...with even more people combinations than usual.

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Flirt - Laurell K. Hamilton

July 22nd 2010 23:01

I borrowed this hardback, the 18th in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series from the library.

Anita meets with two different clients who are desperate to have their spouses back - their reasoning and desires causes her to turn them both down. When she is approached later by hired kidnappers/assassins, she doesn't know who she is trying to save herself and her family from - one of her recent turned clients or someone else from her colorful past

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Skin Trade - Laurell K. Hamilton

July 21st 2010 11:07

I first read the 17th in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by borrowing the hardback from the library. Then, I purchased the paperback from Amazon.

Anita gets a head in the mail and finds out it is basically a summons to Vegas - ten officers and one executioner have been slain there. Anita is joined in Vegas by Edward, Olaf and Bernardo - all federal marshals. There are powerful weretigers in Vegas, as well, so Anita has to really keep control

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Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich

July 20th 2010 12:10

I purchased this copyright 2007 hardback, the 13th in the Stephanie Plum series, from Book of the Month Club.

Ranger asks Stephanie for a favor, which puts her in the same room with her ex-husband, Dickie. Dickie ends up missing the next day, which of course, makes Stephanie suspect number one. Her freaking out on him while she was in his office didn't make that any easier to avoid

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Blood Noir - Laurell K. Hamilton

July 16th 2010 10:56

I first read the 16th in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by borrowing the hardback from the library then, I purchased the paperback from Amazon.

Anita accompanies Jason to visit his dying estranged father in North Carolina. Upon arrival, Jason is mistaken for his cousin, who is supposed to be getting married but has instead run off with the wife of a master vampire. Anita, of course, gets involved in solving the case but, there are sexual encounters all over the place, as well

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The Harlequin - Laurell K. Hamilton

July 12th 2010 10:54

I bought the 15th in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series from Amazon.

Anita actually has Malcolm, head of the Church of the Eternal Life, asking for help from her and Jean Claude because of the Harlequin. According to the rules, the Harlequin must make contact through delivery of a mask—white to indicate they are watching, red for pain, black for death. Anita receives a white mask, but the members of the Harlequin aren't playing by the rules

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Twelve Sharp - Janet Evanovich

July 9th 2010 16:54

I bought this copyright 2006 hardback, the 12th in the Stephanie Plum series, from Book of the Month Club.

Someone is stalking Stephanie and that someone is somehow connected to Ranger. Steph and Ranger end up chasing a killer together, as well as trying to rescue a little girl

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Danse Macabre - Laurell K. Hamilton

July 8th 2010 13:46

I bought the 14th in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series from Amazon.

Anita thinks she might be pregnant and there are six potential fathers. If that wasn't enough she also has to help Jean Claude by playing hostess to a gathering of North American vampire Masters of the City, who are in town for a vampiric ballet performance

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