Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Entering the World of the Lunatic Cafe

Tash: awesome read

Australia on Sep 22, 2023

JWN: I enjoyed reading this book. Another action packed book with twists and turns and a surprise ending. The mystery of who’s killing the shapeshifters had me guessing. The action has me glued to the book.

There’s more development between Richard the werewolf and Jean Claude, the vampire. Both are in love with Anita and trying to win her love. She’s attracted to both and love them both in her way. She’s just not sure if she can be with “monsters” that aren’t human. I’m not a fan of the love triangle and both men vying for her. I find myself like the vampire for her more than the more human werewolf. He doesn’t seem strong enough for her.

United States on May 27, 2023

Leonie Mulcahy: What a great book, great set up for the next books, but not giving too much away - I love it

Australia on Mar 20, 2023

BookishChick: I'm rereading the entire series. This is my favourite ever series. I'd forgotten alot but it brings so much joy to read again. I currently have the flu and laurell is getting me through it with my big girl pants on. She's a blessing. You will love the Anita Blake series... if you don't... seek professional help

Australia on Oct 23, 2022

Encourage Thinking: I loved this installment, and I didn't think the last book could be bested. Surprise! This book had an interesting storyline with so many twists, even very very subtle ones, that I almost suffered from whiplash. The action packed plot left my teeth clenching so hard I was waiting for them to start snapping. I do NOT want to do spoilers so I feel kind of limited here. I'm finding Richard's hypocrisy a little difficult to handle. I like the character. He is good to the character of Anita. But... he is shocked when she does some things that seem extreme, and yet his pack, as well as his own freaky reaction to something truly appalling done by some in his pack, is okay. (Hard time explaining without spoiling). No consequences needed for their atrocities because I guess the character thinks it's in their nature, no need for punishment. But Anita does something I would have done myself if I wasn't such a pacifist and he is shocked. The author brilliantly weaves the storyline to slide in that fine line between right and wrong because I'm positive I am not the only reader with the "maybe Richard and Anita don't make such a good couple" thoughts happening. You will love this wild roller...

United States on Jul 31, 2014

Arthur W Jordin: The Lunatic Cafe (1996) is the fourth Fantasy novel in the Anita Blake series, following  Circus of the Damned . The initial volume in this sequence is  Guilty Pleasures .

In the previous volume, Anita was having an early morning interview with Ruebens and Inger. Bert had scheduled it just after dawn. She still had blood under her fingernails from last night's zombie raisings.

Inger suggested that they just tell her what they want. Ruebens sat back down and said they want to find out the sleeping lair of the Master Vampire of the City. Anita stopped trying to help the men. Since she didn't know where Jean-Claude hid his body at night, Anita just told them the truth.

After this interview, Anita got a beeper message, She checked the origin and it was from Dolph. Then the beeper rang again from Dolph. Something must have been very urgent.

The victim was lying in the front yard. He was naked with blonde hair stained green from the lawn and his face and skin were very pale. There were multiple bite sites on his body. Anita measured each bite and decided that at least three vampires had attacked him, but she figured there were more probably five...

United States on Oct 23, 2013

RachelDoodle: Laurell k. Hamilton writes in a style quite unusal to most vampire writers around at the moment I find, she's very direct and cynical about the world and this book is no different to the others in the series. I like the way Anita is direct in most aspects of her life and love the way she finds the girlier elements of life as a woman totally alien! I think a lot of women on a level can relate! Ok not in terms of having a Master vampire trying desperately to seduce her but in the sense of sometimes wanting to slob around in sweats and an old tee and cuddle a penguin! Rather than glam up and impress a man! Her animator role and the police side of her life I feel was a little lacking in this one and its something I've enjoyed in the other books in the series and I hope Hamilton isn't siding with the masses and will make the rest too relationshipy and more like the more popular books of this genre. Have just downloaded bloody bones so we will see how she carries it on, we'll written fiction though and the way vampires lycanthropes and other supernatural beings are accepted as part of society makes this series a great form of escapism! Definitely worth reading.

United Kingdom on Nov 16, 2012

Soo Broo: Well, this is book number four in the series and I'm a little surprised to find I'm actually quite enjoying it. I've got past my overwhelming irritation of Anita's hard nosed wisecracking and the author's obsession with armament and find the books are quite compelling.

This one dealt more with the lycanthropes and pack dynamics, which was quite interesting, and develops the love triangle between Anita, Richard and Jean-Claude, although not a huge amount else really happens except in sort of little pockets of action every now and then throughout the book. The skinning of the naga and the disappearance of the lycanthropes was shoe horned in a tad if I'm honest; seemingly to make room for the love triangle, but I went with the flow and didn't find it a problem really.

My only (small) criticism would be that the books are all very "wordy", if that isn't a contradiction in terms - there's an awful lot of either description or dialogue before anything actually happens. Still, I can accept that that's the style and still find these books a good read. I have ordered numbers five and six which says it all really.

United Kingdom on Jun 03, 2010