My new favorite in this series!

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	• Obsidian Butterfly (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 9) Laurell K. Hamilton Jove, 2002 - 608 pages average customer review:based on 324 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Bloody Good

In this book, Anita goes to help out her old fried-Edward. The book takes you to New Mexico where an Aztec god/monster is skinning people alive or ripping them from limb to limb. Throw in a rapist who gets his kicks by hacking his victims into pieces note:he's on the good side; A nursery ward where the babies get eatten and instant mumification and you have a thriller that keeps you on end! Yes, this book is dark and gory, but it showed a side of Anita and Edward that they thought they had long forgotten. If you hunt and hack monsters all the time, do you become one yourself or is there still some humanity left that is capable of love?

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Welcome Back, Anita!

For a few of her previous books, Hamilton has started taking Anita on more philosophical paths, and the story line tends to be overtly sexual. This novel, however, puts Anita right back up there, fighting with the bad guys! We get to learn a lot more about Edward's life, as well as visit some different aspects of the paranormal realm. Some of the descriptions of the victims are horrifyingly amazing! It was nice to see Anita in action again, rather than mooning over one of the many men in her life.

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the best in the series

After reading her other works, this one has the least sex scenes and is the best book in the series.

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My new favorite in this series!

I really liked this entry in the series. Edward has always been my favorite character (besides Anita of course), and I'd missed him in the recent books, so I was glad to see he had such a huge role in this one. In this book, Edward calls in his favor from Anita and she travels to Arizona to assist him in investigating a series of mutilation murders. We get some insight into Edward's character and a glimpse at his long-buried human side! Jean-Claude only makes one brief appearance in this book, and Richard doesn't appear at all other than in conversation. And quite frankly, I did not miss either one of them! Terrible, I know, since Jean-Claude especially is such a central character, but I've never much cared for him or their relationship. In Arizona, Anita meets another of Edward's occasional back-ups, Olaf, who is a cold-blooded serial murderer who starts out hating Anita but comes to respect her in a creepy way, and I suspect that he will show up later in the series as well. An interesting character.

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There are a lot of monsters in Anita Blake's life. And some of them are human. One such individual is the man she calls Edward, a bounty hunter who specializes in the preternatural. He calls her to help him hunt down the greatest evil she has ever encountered. Something that kills and maims and vanishes into the night. Something Anita will have to face alone...

Praise for the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels:

"In Obsidian Butterfly, Laurell K. Hamilton delivers an erotic, demonic thrill ride. Her sexy, edgy, wickedly ironic style sweeps the reader into her unique world and delivers red-hot entertainment. Hamilton's marvelous storytelling can be summed up in three words: Over the top. She blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache. Great fun!"-- Jayne Ann Krentz

"Hamilton has endowed her heroine with a charming mix of male bravado, feminine guile, and self-deprecating humor."-- Publishers Weekly

"Ms. Hamilton's intriguing blend of fantasy, mystery, and a touch of romance is great fun indeed."-- Romantic Times

"Hamilton takes her world by the teeth and runs with it, devising a whipcrack adventure that moves like the wind, grips you by the throat and doesn't let go."-- Locus

"Mayhem, madness, old spells and older vampires. And Anita Blake at the center of it, struggling to stay on top...perfect!"-- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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