Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 17)

• Publisher:   Berkley Hardcover
• Number Of Pages:   496
• Publication Date:   2009-06-02
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0425227723
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780425227725

A proven series with a hot new look. The #1 bestselling author returns with her most anticipated novel yet. When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City’s local authorities what they’re dealing with. Only it’s worse than she thought. Ten officers and one executioner have been slain—paranormal style. Anita heads to Vegas, where’s she’s joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward. It’s a good thing he always has her back, because when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses “tiger” too strongly to ignore it. The weretigers are very powerful in Las Vegas, which means the odds of her rubbing someone important the wrong way just got a lot higher.

I really liked the Anita Blake books when i first started reading them. However, at a certain point (and anyone who has read the books knows what I mean) they stopped being worth reading. That didn't stop me from trying however because the characters were such that I liked to learn about. In this last book I finally felt like there was something new to learn about. With Blood Noir we began to see a plot again mixed with sex admittedly, but a plot. In Skin Trade we finally see another well thought out story. It still isn't quite up to par with the beginning of the series but it gives me hope. Maddy <3

WITH THIS BOOK IT SHOWED THAT THE OLD ANITA BLAKE WILL NEVER BE BACK IN THE SAME WAY SHE WAS IN THE EARLIER BOOKS. ANITA BLAKE HAVE BECOME OLDER NOT BY AGE, BUT WITH LIFE AND WITH GETTING OLDER YOU WILL CHANGE. THIS BOOK WAS A GOOD BOOK. I THINK SHE IS STILL TRYING TO FIND HER PLACE INBETWEEN HER LIFE, JOB, WORK, AND THE POWER SHE IS COMING INTO. IF YOU LIKE THE ANITA BLAKE BOOKS THIS WILL BE A GOOD BOOK TO PUT WITH ALL THE OTHERS.
Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 17)

Anyone who reads my review is not going to hear Hamilton get bashed. From Guilty Pleasures on I have enjoyed each novel from being something different as the last one. This is the case with Skin Trade. From the beginning the book starts out grisly. Body parts arriving as gifts and a previous character, sociopathic serial killer is on the loose. She goes to Vegas to stop the body count and I felt the investigation was Anita Blake at here finest. She becomes involved again with the weretigers and again a triangle is established. I know alot of people complain about the sex, I happen to enjoy how complex everything is getting and especially Marmee Nior. If you want intrigue, great sex scenes and various subplots, you have a winner. Thanks Ms. Hamilton!

I enjoyed this book. The continued development of "powers and principalities" is interesting and there is the fun Smart-Alec vs. The System aspect I'm used to finding in the series. Contrary to what a few of the reviews had indicated there is far less sex in Skin Trade than in some of the other books in the series and what there is seems less gratuitous. In particular there were no lurid under-age scenes.
My only cons would be: There was less humor (tongue in cheek comments etc.), and I wish it had been longer. The ending in particular seemed a bit abbreviated.
As always the story is fast paced with tragedy, graphic violence, plenty of action and surprises along the way.

I'm not going to regurgitate all the critical reviews. I agree with them all. This book is awful. AWFUL! To belabour the point, I thought the early Anita Blake books were great. Mind-bogglingly great. Original. Action-packed. Innovative. However, since Obsidian Butterfly things have slipped. And this one is beyond slipped, it's "over the cliff and heading down fast" bad. You may like it - if you do, kudos to you. Personally, I was sorely badly terribly (but not unexpectedly) disappointed. When I read that Olaf and Edward were coming back, I had hopes. Tragically, these hopes have been dashed. My only advice - read the reviews, make up your own mind, and if you're not sure if it's worth your heard-earned dollars, borrow it from the library like I did. And pray that Laurell Hamilton's publishers get the message. The author certainly hasn't, sad to say.

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