Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Skin Trade |
| author | Laurell K. Hamilton |
| ISBN-10 | 0-515-14805-9 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-515-14805-3 |
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| date | 2011-Jul-16 |
Anita Blake is a Vampire Hunter. A feared one. They call her "The Executioner". One morning she gets a gross present. After talking to the Las Vegas police she's on her way to there. It appears Vittorio, one of the most powerful and most gruelsome vampires, has resurfaced there. Vittorio and Anita have met before, when he slaughtered some men of her SWAT team and managed to escape. Now she gets another chance to kill him, or vice versa.
The story takes place in a time when both vampires and wereanimals live among humans, peacefully but with exceptions. Also witches and many other individuals with special abilities are abound.
Quite a number of characters appear in the book, including many boyfriends and lovers of Anita and at times it was not so easy to keep track of who is who. Also the concept that a single living, day walking person could be part vampire and part wereanimal at the same time was unusual. These do not always get along too well with each other in different stories. Even more unusual was the concept that the same person could be different wereanimals at once.
All in all, the book is fine, but a bit complicated and confusing at times. The end comes extremely quickly, giving the impression of "Ok, now I've reached the commissioned number of pages, let's stop here."
