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by Laurell Hamilton (Author) "It was two weeks before Christmas ..." (more)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
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The zombie-raising business gets slow in December, so Anita Blake is starting to see some oddball cases. She's got a neatly typed list of eight missing lycanthropes given to her by Marcus, the leader of the local werewolf pack, who wants her to find them. The trouble is, Anita's occasionally furry boyfriend Richard is locked in a power struggle with Marcus. Jean-Claude, master vampire of the city and Anita's other love interest, is getting jealous as well. To top it off, Anita has to solve some horrific murders and keep her bounty-hunting friend Edward from killing Richard and Jean-Claude. Hamilton alternates between funny and fearsome in this larky series about a monster hunter with a few dark secrets. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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A real rush...a heady mix of romance and horror. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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1.0 out of 5 stars There are better things you could be reading, Nov 3 2004
Laurell K. Hamilton's "The Lunatic Café" is a substandard work of fiction with no redeeming literary or entertainment values.

Hamilton's main failings lie in her very basic ability to write interesting characters, description, and dialogue. Her characters are broad and stereotypical: the hard, cold, and strong heroine; the sexy foppish vampire; the sensitive but strong lover with a dark side. She fills her dialogue with needless explanations of otherwise subtle observations and recognizable jokes. If, by the end of the book, it is not made clear to you in the most obvious ways possible that Anita Blake is a hard, take-no-guff woman, then there's something wrong.

Ultimately, Hamilton simply fails to create erotic/horrific atmosphere. Her love scenes fall limp and her shocks and terrors that could be deeply disturbing and taboo-erotic pass with a terrible banality that plagues the whole book.

Because of Hamilton's penchant for conclusions that never conclude the plots introduced in the story, you won't even have the satisfaction of saying you finished reading her book. Like bad fan-fiction that managed to get published, "Lunatic Café" should be seriously avoided.

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1.0 out of 5 stars 1 star is pretty generous, Nov 3 2004
By Beau (Canada) - See all my reviews
This is a banal text, poorly written in every regard. Though Hamilton may have a sense for action beats in her works (which she should at this point in her incredibly-long career), everything else is marred by her lack of skill at dialogue, description and knowing when to sit back and let the story work, rather than filling it with endless, meaningless "witty" quips from her narrator. The characters are stock and unlikeable, but only because they are completely devoid of originality.

If her other works are anything like this one, then she will have a statue erected in her name in the literary hall of shame before it is all said and done.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A werewolf or a vampire for a lover... Decisions, decisions!, Jun 26 2004
By CoffeeGurl (MA) - See all my reviews
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Once again, Laurell K. Hamilton hits a home run with this exceptional novel. The Lunatic Cafe is the fourth Anita Blake installment and my favorite thus far. Though this one has a bit of a slow start action-wise, it has a far more compelling plot that centers on Anita's personal life. Anita is dating Richard, something that doesn't sit well with Jean-Claude, the vampire Master of the City. Jean-Claude wants Anita as well and he, too, wants to date her. She's always said she wouldn't date one of the monsters, yet she is involved with a werewolf. But Richard has great human qualities. He is a schoolteacher, a genuinely nice guy, a boy next door of sorts -- minus the small fact that he's the leader of a pack of shape shifters with a secret and animalistic penchant for a mixture of blood, sex and violence. Jean-Claude is the proverbial bad boy -- a fearful leader and a shameless seducer who doesn't bother to hide his monstrous side, but irresistible all the same. In order to keep Jean-Claude from killing Richard, Anita acquiesces to his proposal of dating both men at the same time. But the reader knows that Anita is attracted to Jean-Claude, no matter how much she denies it. If this interesting little love triangle isn't bad enough, she has to find out why eight shape shifters and lycanthropes are missing. There are various twists throughout the novel...

This is the most exciting part of the series I've read thus far. Laurell K. Hamilton keeps you in suspense from beginning to end. Richard is a great character, but he's nowhere near as compelling and sensual as Jean-Claude. I am still hoping that he and Anita will get together. The building of tension is so slow it's torturous! But the aforementioned tension is delectable beyond compare. The characters are always excellent. The most interesting character in this series is Edward. He's a caricature of a character with an unreadable personality. Perhaps this is intentional, but I'm not sure. I hope to get to know this character in a deeper level in the future. Anyway, as said earlier, this is the best Anita Blake offering. I cannot recommend The Lunatic Cafe enough. A great summer read to enjoy resting on a hammock overlooking the sunset.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
I havnet read the series, my friends recommended "The Lunatic Cafe" to me so i started reading and i LOVED it! It's face paced, intriguing and a great read! Read more
Published on Jun 18 2004 by Tanya

5.0 out of 5 stars Before Richard got annoying...
One of the better books in the series. This read through reminded me how much I use to like Richard. It made me feel all nostalgic. Read more
Published on Jun 11 2004 by celes1

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not the best
Anita Blake is a definite favourite of mine. But Anita! You really disappointed me in this one. The story and the storyline was, as usual, great. Read more
Published on Jun 4 2004 by Louise

5.0 out of 5 stars Werewolf or vampire, that is the question
Up until this point, the main character in the series, Anita Blake, has been staying away from love. Read more
Published on May 10 2004 by Sebastian Fernandez

5.0 out of 5 stars Fourth in the Anita Blake series.
As with the previous three books in the series, this book is a tremendously fun read, mostly because the character of Anita Blake is one of the best characters in fiction since... Read more
Published on Dec 24 2003 by James Yanni

2.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great
This book is still good entertaining fun, just as the rest of the Anita Blake series. And plenty of body count for those who keep count ;)

However a key element in stories is... Read more

Published on Dec 22 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars A Favorite!
Lunatic Cafe is one of my favorite Anita Blake novels. This one lets us delve deeper into the lives of werewolves. Read more
Published on Dec 13 2003 by Avid Reader

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book
I've been reading this series for a while - Ms. Hamilton's spin on a world where the supernatural (vampires, werewolves, etc) are real and part of every day life is very... Read more
Published on Dec 1 2003 by CN

5.0 out of 5 stars Screaming Love for Three
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Anita Blake has fallen in love with the leader of a local pack of werewolves but the master if the city (vampire) will not let it happen. Read more

Published on Oct 31 2003 by Lit Teacher

5.0 out of 5 stars Whoa....
"The Lunatic Cafe" was one wild ride. I dont know how Ms. Hamilton does it, but I swear the woman is brilliant. I have never been this addicted to a book. Read more
Published on Jul 11 2003 by M. I.

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