The Harlequin (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 15)

• Publisher:   Berkley Hardcover
• Number Of Pages:   432
• Publication Date:   2007-06-05
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0425217248
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780425217245

Readers haven't seen anything yet-new in the "fabulously imagined series" (Publishers Weekly) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names. It is forbidden to speak of The Harlequin unless you've been contacted. And to be contacted by The Harlequin is to be under sentence of death.

Long-time rivals for Anita's affections, Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, alpha-werewolf, will need to become allies. Shapeshifters Nathaniel and Micah will have to step up their support. And then there's Edward. In this situation, Anita knows that she needs to call the one man who has always been there for her...

Have entire collection even if the lame softporn attempts suck and tend to take away from plot.

This book was a disappointment. It spends way too much time with Anita's lovers and not enough time building up the Harlequin. I have grown to hate most of the characters in this series now. I think this will be the last of the Vampire Hunter series that I will read. The Harlequin is the Vampire police that takes care of problems within their ranks. In this book they have set their eyes upon Anita and her misfit sex clan. However they take a very back seat to Anita and her lovers. I found myself wanting the Harlequin to come in and take out Anita and her lovers by the end of the book to put them and me out of my misery. This could have been a good book if the author had spent more time building up the Harlequin. I do not need any more character development on the main characters. I would actually like to see them do something other than bitch and moan about their personal problems with each other. I do not even know why the author titled the book the Harlequin. Almost no time was given in the book to develop them. You want to be scared for the main characters. You want the main characters to deal with the problems head on that they are facing. You want them to come together when they are on the brink of destruction. This book just fails on so many levels.

I find myself reading her books because I am used to reading her. The state of the characters in the series have deteriorated to the point of being mere cartoon shells albeit very sexual cartoons. Main characters have not voice and we are basically viewing a walking breathing vagina...it is reduced to nothing but sex and little points left over.

Good news...no sex for 150 pages...amazing, isn't it??? But plenty of talk about sex after that and some lesbian sex between Anita and Belle (well, at least in their dreams!) Anita is laid up a lot of book...uh, laid up in hospital and not laid up as in having sex every scene. But something is off nevertheless. I think the plot needs more work. And the ending was so abrupt...right in the middle of a chapter, the author just wound the whole thing up. Edward was in this one but there were so many scenes where nothing was happening that I kept forgetting he was there. Everything is about Anita, and about Anita's love affairs. I'm beginning to get a little sick of her whining ways but the author seems to be trying to bring her back to the way it was in the first book. She should have done that a few books ago when everyone was getting sick of the series. But I hope she succeeds because the first few books were really good. This one is better than the last few at least.

What a piece of rubbish!
Anita is so self centered, it's all about Anita.
What now some serial killer (Olaf) is in love with her.
How does Laurell write this rubbish?!?!

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