Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures - Volume 2 (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (Marvel Paper)) (v. 2) [Paperback]

Laurell K. Hamilton (Author), Jessica Ruffner (Author), Brett Booth (Illustrator), Ron Lim (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (Marvel Paper) | Publication Date: December 31, 2008

The hit adaptation of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series continues! What price will Anita pay in order to save her friend's life and solve the Vampire Murders? Will she actually kiss Phillip? How far will Edward go in order to find out where the daytime resting place of the Master Vampires truly is? Where is Jean-Claude? And most important, who is behind the Vampire Murders? What's next for Anita Blake, you ask? The answers to all of those questions are here! Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures #7-12.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Marvel; First Edition edition (December 31, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785125825
• ISBN-13: 978-0785125822
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 0.2 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #775,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Laurell K. Hamilton is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two series that mix mystery, fantasy, magic, horror and romance. Her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels from Berkley Books began with GUILTY PLEASURES (now a hugely successful graphic novel from Marvel - the first sexy paranormal comic ever!) and continues with the SKIN TRADE, number seventeen in the series, in which Anita's complex personal and professional relationships with a master vampire and an alpha werewolf continue to evolve. There are now more than 6 million copies of Anita in print worldwide, in 16 languages. Hamilton's Ballantine series features Fey princess and private investigator, Merry Gentry and there are now six novels exceeding one million copies in print. Divine Misdemeanors, the eighth in the series will debut Octobe 29, 2009. She lives in St. Louis County Missouri with her husband Jonathon Green, daughter, one pug dog and one boxer/pug dog.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars guilty pleasures volume 2 hc, August 24, 2008

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judeann palermo (rhode island) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures - Volume 2 (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (Marvel Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

I enjoyed the graphic novel art work, I had read the paper back book many years ago, so this was a nice change. I was surprised at how close the pictures resembled the pictures I had of everyone in my mind while I read the book. I hope they keep putting out more graphics with these artists

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Loved the book, loved the graphic novel, too., February 24, 2009

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This review is from: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures - Volume 2 (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (Marvel Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

I loved Guilty Pleasures, the novel. Until Laurel K. Hamilton went nuts with her character and turned her into a porn queen, the series was fun and sexy and exciting. I loved seeing the drawings along with the story in this GN. Anita Blake fans should enjoy this.

3.0 out of 5 stars OK but not great, April 22, 2011

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Andy Shuping (Macon, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures - Volume 2 (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (Marvel Paper)) (v. 2) (Paperback)

I've never read the Anita Blake series before so this was new to me. I do have to admit I don't really like adaptations of books into graphic novels. I just think it loses a lot of its value and doesn't translate well into this type of format. That's just me though. This is the second collected volume in the series, collecting issues #7-#12.

The story line moves along quickly enough and you can pick up most of whats going on easily enough, even without reading the first collected volume. However, there really isn't a lot of depth to the story. Its mostly action just lots of action with vampires constantly being killed or Anita having her life threatened. Part of this can be attributed to the fact that its an adaptation of a full length novel. 368 pages of pure text are reduced to a mix of images and words. One nice thing is that they include a "previously" at the front of the book. So if you haven't read the series before (or forgot what happened) it gives a nice little recap for you. The artwork is decent enough, although it has a very muted color scheme. Whether this is to fit in with the tone of the story or if its the printing I'm not really sure. One big complaint out of me is that all of the characters have the same exact body build, perfect. All the males look like Greek Adonis's without an ounce of body fat and the females look like super models that can kick your butt. Not a fat vampire in the bunch. Frankly it just makes everyone look nonlife like, they lack that air of vitality and reality that makes a comic come alive. One small saving point for the unrealistic style is that even though the killings are rather bloody, they won't cause nightmares for being too graphic.