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    Flirt: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

    By Laurell K. Hamilton

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    Anita Blake has been asked to raise the dead-but the results aren't going to make everybody happy...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateFeb 2, 2010
    ISBN9781101184813
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    Flirt: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
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    Laurell K. Hamilton

    Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the New York Times bestselling Anita Blake series and Merry Gentry series. She lives with her family in St. Louis, Missouri.

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    • 2/5
      There is good and bad when reading LKH. The good is that she's built a solid world and characters that I, for the most part, like to spend time with. The bad is that I really wish she would get (a better) editor. Some phrases were used again and again, some scenes the same. The book could have been tighter and more enjoyable.

      Anita's been collecting animals to call for a while, and she does that through sex. You accept that if you're reading one of these books, and I do. This time the animal she collected is tied to her in a way that was obviously not his (or really her) choice. That's something explored a bit in this book, and something I'm looking forward to seeing explored (though not in a sexual way) in further books.
    • 3/5
      I was a little reluctant to read this book. Only because Anita Blake is one of my favorite characters and I just couldn't get a handle on where the author was going with a title like Flirt. I was pleasantly surprised even though it's on the shorter side of an Anita Blake novel. I believe that this book shows just how much Anita has changed emotionally. She's come a long way since Guilty Pleasures. While she is still the cold blooded killer of the past it begins to show a more vulnerable side of her that I can relate even better to. It's nice to see that she hasn't lost her kick ass attitude and has learned to open her heart more than she ever believed she would be able to. I think this will be a nice lead into Bullet and I can't wait for that one to hit the shelves.
    • 3/5
      I liked it. It's just super short.
    • 4/5
      Anita meets with a woman who wants her to reanimate her dead husband so she can take a horrendous revenge out on him. Anita flatly refuses. Anita also has a client who wants her to reanimate his deceased wife and when she turns him down, he reacts badly and has her kidnapped. Micah, Nathaniel, and Jason, as always, provide good supporting lines and character to the story line; Jean Claude and the rest of the vampires are a no-show in this novella however; much the pity in this readers opinion, but still overall the storyline keeps you reading.
    • 4/5
      Set in a Rhode Island fishing village-cum-resort town, the narrative focuses on a family of hardworking restaurateurs. The action revolves around Cass Keating Medieros, the youngest granddaughter of Sheila and Eddie Keating, founders of the family's successful restaurant . Though Cass and her fisherman husband Billy have been "madly in love since eighth grade, and proud of it," their marriage has begun to show the strain of caring for their partially deaf daughter Josie. Meanwhile, their teenaged son is experiencing his own first grand passion; Cass’s parents contemplate selling the restaurant and Cass's embittered sister, Nora blossoms when romance unexpectedly comes her way. These and other engaging subplots keep the narrative sailing briskly along; frisky sex scenes are another plus.
    • 4/5
      Another in the Anita Blake Vampire hunter series. This one has her turning down a couple of jobs at the beginning of the book. This leads to her being kidnapped by a pair of were-lions. This one is a short quick read in comparison to some of the others in the series.
    • 3/5
      Anita turns down two resurrection jobs back to back because the people paying request unethical outcomes. Shortly thereafter she is taken hostage by two werelions who have been contracted to force her to raise the dead via human sacrifice. If she refuses, they'll kill Micah, Nathaniel, & Jason. Also, as luck would have it, Anita's lioness is in heat so matters are unnecessarily complicated. Naturally, Anita fucks one of the werelions, permanently adopting him, turns the tables on the dopey bad guys and saves the day by raising a whole cemetery.Perhaps because this novel is blessedly short, I found it much less awful than earlier installments. It's not much of a story, and the stakes are so low there is absolutely no tension. Jean Claude literally doesn't even have a speaking role in this one. An extremely pointless and unasked for addition to the canon.
    • 1/5
      Why did I do this to myself? Why return to Anita Blake, when all she does is annoy and frustrate me?

      Because I am a fool.

      But as foolish as I am, at least I didn't write a novel in which all the male characters tell Anita how hot and desirable and wonderful she is for an entire chapter. Is there a plot? Sure, but it's solved in about two minutes. Truthfully, there are so many problems with this story that it’s hard to know what to complain about most.

      -The pages upon pages of descriptions of each man’s hair, eyes, muscles, and dreadful clothing choices?
      -The chapter in which nothing happens except Anita and her waiter flirting with each other?
      -The way the reader is repeatedly reminded that every single other female character is stupider, meaner, and less pretty than Anita?
      -How every single time Anita does anything, all the male characters comment on how amazing and astounding it is?
      -How Anita Blake uses magic to take away someone’s free will for the rest of his life? And then has sex with him? And then has a long discussion with her other boyfriends about whether she should “keep” him, while the poor dude listens and weeps? And then all her boyfriends comfort her about how hard it must have been on her?
      -Or ooh, how ‘bout how we’re supposed to think Anita is oh-so-moral because she refuses to raise zombies that someone wants to have sex with, but then she raises zombies and forces them to kill and eat people? Including their own family members?

      This series better end with someone chopping her head off, because at this point Anita Blake is actively evil.
    • 3/5
      This one was hard to rate. I enjoyed reading more of Anita's job, but I basically just skim the sex scenes. Will continue the series because I must know how it all ends, but I have to say I'm not as excited about the books as I was when I first started the series.
    • 3/5
      This is not my favorite Anita Blake book, but I'll take it. This book is unlike any of the other Anita books (with Micah maybe as the exception). Usually in the Anita world, there is always either police work or vampires/wereanimal politics. It was just a little strange to not have any of these. It is pretty much all about zombies.

      I really liked how the story was told about how the book was written at the end. It is funny how the two different people could take the exact same real-life story and turn it into two completely different fictional stories.

      Following LKH on Twitter has helped me understand her writing procedure better and I think it makes me anticipate and get more excited about the books coming out. Having the entire process in the back of this book has explained even further than she does in the blog and Twitter.

      I will now attempt to wait patiently for Bullet to come out in June. How long do you think the patience will last?
    • 3/5
      Amazon preorder,

      Not a continous sexfest, (comparatively speaking) - it felt really short to me, more like a novella. Very quick read. No significant subplots - one major story, nothing of the long story arc. This is both a good and bad.

      If you are the sort of person who still reads Hamilton (I am and sales figures indicate I have some company), wait for the paperback. I got a readable story but I don't know that I got hardcover prices worth of story.
    • 2/5
      Surprise, surprise, looks like I've read this one before! The whole restaurant scene didn't hold up the second time around, but Jacob and Nicky were interesting.
    • 2/5
      To sum up: I'm glad I got this book at 1/2 price, because I would have been annoyed to have paid more for what I got.

      At least since this novella is billed as a full novel the author probably won't incorporate it into another book (like she's done with other short stories published in anthologies--can you say lazy writer?), but I was holding out such hope that the series was improving. The last book, Skin Trade, was actually good! I enjoyed the presence of some plot. Woo for plot! This one was just...boring. And often made no sense. For a woman who goes on about being used to dangerous situations, Anita Blake doesn't do a lot to help her men out of the situation. The snipers haven't even targeted them yet; they're just going to when they get out into the open, so there's no immediate danger. Also, there's a picture of your lover through a rifle scope. So what? Hello--photoshop?!? I'm just disappointed with how Anita seems to have lost a few IQ points and, it seems, all logical thought.

      I gotta say, also tired of the men collecting. And the constant bashing on grandparents because the grandmother told Anita she was ugly as a child. YOU HAVE AT LEAST FOUR LIVE-IN LOVERS! They seem to think you're attractive--really, get over it! And it coming up as a traumatic repressed memory? ARGH!

      The plot was recycled from earlier books, the descriptions were lifted out of previous books, the real life "inspiration" for this novella (no, I'm not going to call it a novel) recounted in the afterword seems mean spirited, and even the sex scene was boring and offensive--Anita raped the guy; no excuses she gives makes that ok.

      And yet, this still gets two stars because it was a quick read and I didn't hate it. I'll also probably pick up the next one. Not really sure why, but I will.
    • 3/5
      As interesting as I have found Anita's metaphysical journey, I'd like to see LKH find a middle ground between the ad nauseam play-by-play explorations of said through the 496pp of "Skin Trade" and the brief allusions and mental considerations in "Flirt." Perhaps the pace did not allow for much inner reflection (although that wasn't a blocker for "Skin Trade") and I was hopeful when the story started out at Anita's day job, as I particularly enjoy the necromancy component of her stories, and it harks back to the fabulous early books. Lots of loose ends - what about the disconnect between the fur-loving dead wife and Anita's first client? Surprisingly few concerns about the human sacrifice. And what about the dark things? I have now read two of the Anita Blake novellas and been disappointed - as a previous reviewer said, edit it down and make it a chapter in a book or flesh it out and do the characters justice.
    • 3/5
      The more I think about this book the more it creeps me out.There will be spoilers.So it's a typical Anita Blake novel from the recent lot. Jean-Claude is at a distance, Richard is invisible boy and mostly Anita is working with the were-pack of toy boys. The story starts with an incident that is apparently based on a real-life incident Laurell has with some friends while travelling (only with more clothes, Anita's men seem to favour tank-tops). Recounted by Laurell in an afterword and shown in a cartoon it's vaguely entertaining.Bracketing this Anita has meets with clients who want her to resurrect their dead spouses, neither for good reasons. I'm not quite sure why Tony Bennington wants his spouse back, he doesn't come across as wanting her, just wanting the appearance of her. The other, Ms Natalie Zell wants to punish her husband for dying on her. So when someone kidnaps Anita and some of her harem to force her to resurrect a body, they're not sure. The kidnappers have cut Anita off from her power and Anita has to use one of them to save her men.So she takes his free will from him. And then debates with her guys about letting him join her harem. She basically rapes him, and then dismisses the consequences as if they didn't exist. This is one of my problems with Anita, her actions have little consequence, she doesn't really regret much about how she treats people, it's her past that matters, her issues that surface again and again. I'd like to see a book where Jean Claude and Richard do an intervention, force her to think, to actually pay attention to the consequences of her actions rather than drifting through her world collecting power tokens and gaining a lot of power, too much power. She imbalances the power in the world and there's nothing done about that. And then there's the taster of the next book, where a five-year-old insists on being kissed on the lips, like the big boys do and I'm squicked even more.Sorry, no, this is it. I have to stop punishing myself like this and declare an end to reading this series. This was a short that I flew through and it's made me quite squicked with the world, I now need to read something exceedingly fluffy to ensure I don't lose the plot entirely.
    • 5/5
      AnitaDay job client that she refuses comes back and threatens her families life and takes her to hostage to rays his dead wife. He hires two werelions Jacob And Nickey to help in the deed. They tangled with the wrong girl. It was a very short read.
    • 1/5
      Where to start? Hmmmm, I truly looked forward to this book and now I have to say that I am VERY disappointment. There was really not a whole lot that happened in this book and the wait was not worth it. There was a whole lot of "fillers" going on and not a lot of plot. One of the fillers, meeting a wife of a deceased human, who really had no point in the book and offered nothing to the story other than to just fill up space for the book. I actually feel ripped off that I spent $14 on this new release for something that should have only cost $5, if that. Jean Claude also did not make an appearance in this book, nor did Richard and that was also extremely disappointing. The last time Ms. Hamilton did this was with Micah, but which I have to say I enjoyed more than this book. Come on Ms. Hamilton, these short stories just aren't doing it for the series and are indeed turning me off.
    • 3/5
      I used to love these books when they were mostly about the monsters. Now they are all about Anita and her multitudes of boyfriends. I feel Hamilton went down a track that she can never get out of. I gave this three stars because in this book Anita at least is using her necromancy powers and doing stuff with zombies again.
    • 3/5
      Another novella-length episode in the mechanics of life as Anita Blake, but too, too similar to Micah in all dimensions; none of which allay my natural cynicism in considering Flirt nothing more than mere revenue production for new publishers. Nevertheless I read it in just over an hour; my interest retained for the whole book thanks to very little (gratuitous) descriptive sex while actually being regaled with further titbits on all things necromantic.This is another ‘office’ scenario - a return to Anita’s day job; and a tantalising hint of the difficulties of work as a necromancer in the modern world. When Anita refuses to reanimate the spouses of two separate and obscenely rich clients - for reasons best left for the reader to discern - it all goes badly awry; Anita and her family again threatened with terrible harm.There’s not much to read in this book, so not much of substance to discuss. Hence this will be a short and sweet review. I have been reading this series for what seems like forever and I have every intention of making it to the end - all things willing. I am still quite engrossed in the initial premise of Anita Blake and her macabre, diverting unusual powers - assuredly on display here, if only fleetingly. Yet I can't help speculating that this tale could have been substituted as a few chapters in another book; I’m not sure the story-line advanced with any great significance and I’m not at all convinced I needed to read this book. Assuredly I enjoyed a very short interlude within these few pages; decidedly I’m glad I bought this book for a very low price!By all means read it; may I suggest a loan, from a library, or a friend... it’s most definitely not worth purchasing! What perplexes me uttermost is the need for Ms Hamilton to produce these ‘mini-sagas’ at all - after this many chronicles surely it can’t be monetary, can it?(Feb 7, 2011)
    • 3/5
      It's not a bad book but very short. Reads more like a lengthy short story or novella. Glad I got it out of the library rather than purchased it. Hamilton's books always move swiftly for a quick read and this one did. As a matter of fact, I actually skipped fewer pages than usual in this one. I like her books but I'm no longer impelled to buy them or keep them. This had an interesting plot, sufficient action, some interesting characters, and was not overboard on the sex stuff for a change. However, except for thing at the ending, most of the book was pretty predictable, which didn't bother me.
    • 4/5
      Best of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels that I've read in a long while, primarily because the story did not focus solely around sex. It was concise, engaging and interesting: Anita is forced to raise the wife of a mulit-zillionaire from the dead against her will in order to protect Micah, Nathaniel and Jason.
    • 2/5
      This novella was just okay for what it was meant to be — a short exploration of flirtation, a return to Anita’s day job, and a way to give Anita one more animal to call. Unfortunately, the flirtation stuff was a little overdone. In a scant 156 pages of story, the word 'flirt' is used 31 times, and the word 'flirting' 21 times. Too. Much. I wanted to mail her a thesaurus. There’s also a lot of the usual Anita self-reflection, analysis, and denial, all of it telling us nothing new about her character or her situation. If you’re stubborn like me (yes, I finally admit it) and intend to follow this series to the end no matter what, then give this a read. Or email me and I’ll share the salient points. If you’re ready to put the Anita Blake series to bed, this book isn’t going to change your mind.
    • 2/5
      Flirt feels like a bare bones outline of a great Anita Blake novel, or a story belonging in an anthology. It's short, without enough complexity, depth, or duration for a stand alone novel. Had I purchased this book rather than getting it at the library, I would be sorely disappointed.There's less sex than many of the more recent Anita Blake books, which will delight some readers who tired of it, and annoy others who appreciate the erotica aspects. Hamilton focuses on Anita Blake as animator, which is fun to return to, but she falls into her trap of "Anita as accidental harem accumulator". What is it, between 7 and 11 men she's strongly emotionally and metaphysically tied to? I'd love it if instead, she could really develop the relationships between Anita and a few guys instead. I'd love to see more of richard, jean-claude, asher, micah and nathanial, less accumulation of new boys whom we barely get to know, and without this abandonment of the old ones.
    • 3/5
      Ms. Hamilton seems to divide her Anita Blake novels between writing about sex and writing about violence although all of her books have some of both. This short novel is more about sex and paranormal powers. The book did involve a tight situation with Anita unarmed and outnumbered and out of contact with her friends and support. The result was a bit different than I thought it would be but not really surprising.The book was well written as aways but it was a short book. There was some extra material in an afterword and cartoons but I would have preferred a longer book. If you like the paranormal and/or Anita Blake then read this book.
    • 3/5
      I've been a huge fan of the Anita Blake books - up through Obsidian Butterfly (book 9 in the series) these books rule. They're smart, funny, feature interesting premises and scary situations and, like it or not, everybody writing "urban fantasy" these days owes a debt to Ms. Hamilton. The problem is that after Obsidian Butterfly Ms. Hamilton became less interested in the cool stuff she'd been writing about and became more interested in writing really mediocre soft-core porn. This was hugely disappointing for many of us who are her fans (although it must have made her happy because she kept doing it).The end result of this decline of the series was that I stopped being someone who pre-ordered every book and became someone who read them when they came available at the library. And yes, I'm still reading them. I keep hoping that the next one will be better, you see. The one prior to this, Skin Trade showed some promise of the author allowing her character to return to her former interesting self. This one, while barely a novel - more a lengthy short story - is also somewhat better, but honestly most of the problems are still there. The author is still overly enamored of her own perceived hotness and still allowing that perception to destroy her ability to write and tell a good story.I just realized that with the next book, Bullet, there will be potentially be more books in the crappy Anita Blake column than in the cool Anita Blake column. I'll read the next one, but if it's as mediocre or as purely terrible as most of the rest of these, I'll stop reading these altogether. What a bummer.
    • 1/5
      I should say up front so you can evaluate my review that I greatly enjoyed the first 8 or so of the Anita Blake books up to around Obsidian Butterfly. I'm one of those that believe the series badly went wrong with the ardeur with it's have sex or die imperative and books filled with so many chapters of sex scenes, that if you took them out, you wouldn't have wordage for a short novella. I have been able to at least read and finish the prior books though, even if with decreasing enjoyment--this is the one I just can't see as at all up to a professional standard. Just in terms of a good return for your money, other authors would include a story of this length with other shorts--here you're paying a hardcover novel price for a novella. Second, it's more and more tiresome to read the defensive convolutions the author goes through explaining the heroine's lifestyle and defending it. I find the heroine more and more unlikable with each book and this might finally be the end for me. This is the first Anita Blake book I couldn't bear to finish despite its short length.
    • 5/5
      At long last, we see Anita getting back to her roots.This book is short and a bit...bare.. by current standards because it is a bonus book. It was never meant to be written, but she hit a brick wall writing Merry Gentry - and learned from Micah & Blood Noir that she needed to stop and jot the storyline down... the rest is history.The story was inspired not by anything in 'Nitaverse, but by an extraneous experience by the author, which she faithfully reports in Chapter one.From there the story twists into a light, fun Blaken avenue.At long last we see Anita animating again - but.... she is the best of the best, so all of the bad guys who want something slightly shady or extremely difficult done come to her.When she refuses, they persuade her (Do it, we our sharpshooters start picking off your men).Will she mange to extricate herself, or will she have to Sacrifice the White Goat and possibly join her zombie in the grave??? Can she save her friends??
    • 3/5
      She's getting so heavy handed in her writing, we were on page 35 and had walked from the office to the restaurant, and they were flirting with the waiter, but the author doesn't know how to flirt, she, like Anita, is too heavy handed for sexual tension or flrtation, it's all about being hit over the head (or shot with a bullet) with Anita. But the last half was much better than the first so it got to 3 stars. I hate how Jean Claude is a side character in her books now. At the end she writes that she's written 29 books in 15 years, and it's showing... 6 months per books is too short, t hey are reading like first drafts. She needs to let them cook for a little longer, maybe give up one of the series, or only write one book a year, because she has something, but it's getting harder and harder to find it in her books...
    • 4/5
      I wasn't expecting this to be so short (it's more of a novella than a full novel, kind of like Micah, the book that introduced that character to the series), but it is better and less frustrating than this series has been in quite a while. Shorter means fewer characters and Hamilton can stay more focused on the story instead of the drama. The characters still spend way too much time talking and arguing and explaining, but as Anita says at one point in this book when she doesn't fully understand something that's said, she's finally learning to let things go.
    • 4/5
      Well I was a little unhappy about the size of the book. But i also must say it was a nice short story about a typical Anita work day. The story over all was good. Not a bad read just short. (Good thing i got it with 40% off coupon) I must say that I am really hopeing that the next book is very think in size. I miss Richard and all his drama and Im craving me some Jean-Claude and Asher as well.