Micah (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, 13) [Hardcover]

Laurell K. Hamilton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2006

hardcover w/ jacket

Product Details

• Hardcover: 245 pages
• Publisher: Jove; Book club edition (February 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0739465473
• ISBN-13: 978-0739465479
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (433 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #555,316 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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133 of 140 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I really don't care about Micah's member., April 19, 2006

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tknocks (Ann Arbor, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Micah (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 13) (Mass Market Paperback)

For a long while this series was a favorite of mine. All of the books up through Obsidian Butterfly are top notch and worth the price. The Anita character was very likable. Unfortunately, my interest has taken a nose-dive as the books become more and more about Anita and her vast amount of sex partners. Don't get me wrong, I love a well-written sex scene, but I really don't need the sex scene to go on and on and on and on to the point that I'm beyond bored and have fallen into catatonia. As far as Anita's armory of sex partners, I really care about very few of them. I love Richard because I love to hate Richard. I love Jean Claude because he's...Jean Claude. Micah is a likeable character, but I don't find him necessary. Asher & Damien are too much work. Nathaniel should die a thousand deaths exposed to the red-hot heat of 10,000 suns. Please, Nathaniel, die. Die. Die. He's so needy is makes me tired and I want to take a nap. That's enough about the series as a whole. On to Micah, the novella...

There's not much to say. I somehow managed to chug through the book to the point that Micah reveals that his girlfriend left him because his member was too large. At that point I threw the book across the room and began banging my head against the wall while alternately laughing manically and speaking gibberish as all my brainpower had been completely depleted. Several hours and a brain recharge later I picked up the book and put it in the trash. I couldn't bear to read anymore past Micah's member. It was so ridiculous up to that point that I had been pushed past patience.

Honestly, I'm not looking forward to the release of Danse Macabre. I imagine it will be more boundless sex and a teensy weensy bit of sexless plot. I'll begin reading Laurell K. Hamilton again when I read some reviews on Amazon that Anita has gotten back to her roots. I want my carnage. For now, I'll move on to other equally talented authors.

439 of 487 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Trip through the present, March 5, 2006

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E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Micah (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 13) (Mass Market Paperback)

Micah. The one character in the Anita Blake series that nobody really wants to see more of -- really, we've heard too much about his physique already.

And because of this, Laurell K. Hamilton has turned out a very short novella, "Micah," to show off her latest creation and his enormous member. "Micah" has many of the same problem as her latest books -- too much emphasis on sex, annoying attitude -- but it's also horribly boring and unnecessary.

Anita Blake is woken when a coworker calls her. A federal witness died before he could be put on the stand, and the coworker can't go, since his wife is suffering a miscarriage. So Anita hops on a plane. But since she needs the occasional quickie to feed the ardeur, her boyfriend Micah tags along.

Though Anita has been shacking up with Micah for the last year or so, she actually doesn't know much about him -- he's a wereleopard, has kitty-cat eyes, and that's about all. But as they spend time alone together (no Jean-Claude, alas, and no Richard), Anita begins to find out what her boyfriend's past contains.

Here's a warning for potential readers: "Micah" is short. Very short. Too short for its size. It strains to fill the few hundred pages of its length. In fact, it's more like a longish short story than a novella, really.

And at the end of the day, "Micah" commits that cardinal sin -- it's completely unnecessary. There's not much of a plot, no exposition, no new revelations worth knowing. There isn't even any excitement until the ending of the book, and that peters out quickly.

Even Hamilton doesn't seem terribly enthusiastic. She's going through the motions: unimaginative (and sometimes gross) sex, lots of Anita whinging, and soap-opera angst about Micah (horrors!) being a good boyfriend. The writing suffers the most, since there's little detail and equally little atmosphere. The sex scenes, of course, are the exception. We get too much detail in those.

Admittedly, Hamilton DOES try to give Micah new dimensions as a character, by giving him a traumatic background. Unfortunately, this trauma is that his girlfriend dumped him because Micah's Magnificent Member was, uh, too big for her to handle. It will move readers to tears... of laughter. And you can only imagine how the Magnificent Member's, uh, size has an impact on the rather icky sex scene that follows. Although since they have been together for a year, it's not clear why the size is suddenly such a problem.

With "Micah," Laurell K. Hamilton has served up a pint-sized story that doesn't really accomplish anything. It's not much of a story, but somehow that seems appropriate for someone who is not much of a character.

59 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Curse you, Diana Gabaldon!, April 19, 2006

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Violet Bustier - See all my reviews

This review is from: Micah (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 13) (Mass Market Paperback)

I knew that I should not buy this book. The series has been getting worse and worse. I think that I actually did not buy the last one in this series.

But I read the DG quote, and sure enough, my hand reached out and bought the book.

What an awful excuse of a book. It is nothing more than a very poor short story. It is bulked out with improbable sex talk and rehashing of old details.

I get it, I get it... Laurell Hamilton likes her men in short shorts and ankle-length hair. The sex-toy men in both of her series are amply lock-endowed. Her books have become self-indulgent to an absurd degree. Don't get me wrong -- I like a steamy scene as much as the next person, but LKH is not even pretending to have plots anymore. Her heroine in this book is boring and stupid.

This book was so bad that I am actually going to toss it. I could not even finish it, as it became a grindingly unpleasant, pointless waste of time.