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The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 4) | 
| Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher: Jove
Category: Book
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Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 051513452X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780515134520
ASIN: 051513452X
Publication Date: September 24, 2002
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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.
Product Description
Anita has fallen for the leader of a local pack of werewolves. She's survived a lot, but this love thing may kill her yet.
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 Can't Get Enough! July 27, 2010
Kelly (SURPRISE, Azerbaijan)
So, I started with the first book in the Anita Blake series and will begin book 5 and have done so in 2 weeks time. Once I start I cannot put these books down! Lunatic Cafe showed a little softer side of Anita and I noticed in some reviews a few people did not enjoy her more vulnerable romantic side. But, I think it endears me more to Anita since we all go thru a roller coaster of emotional changes in our lives. She still has it!
 Enjoyable Read July 19, 2010
A. Callahan (Texas)
I've been on a Laurell K. Hamilton frenzy lately. I've read the first five Anita Blake books without stopping, and this is one of the better reads. All Anita Blake books can be read out of sequence, but I recommend reading the books in order.
I particularly enjoyed Lunatic Cafe because there were less vampires this time, but the monsters were NOT in short supply. Anita is both vulnerable and forceful. She finds herself in love with a furry man, but the realization of what it really means to be a shapeshifter has her questioning her judgement. The introduction of new creatures was quite a joy, and I can't say I really missed Jean-Claude. I have come to enjoy Larry the apprentice and he does not make an appearence in this volume.
This is not a book for the quezy. One particular chapter is very graphic, and is often mentioned again later in the book.
Great Urban Fantasy!... at least for the first 6-9 books... June 29, 2010
CS (Houston, TX USA)
The Lunatic Cafe is the 4th book in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. This paranormal thriller deviates slightly from the first 3 in that Anita's supernatural powers, her necromancy, are not really explored. It begins by Anita interviewing a potential client, but he wants to hire her as an investigator to help find his missing werewolf wife, not as a necromancer.
The local police call her out to help investigate a murder scene and Anita discovers that her client's wife isn't the only missing shapeshifter.
Anita continues to date, and has fallen in love with Richard. But things for Anita are never easy. The love triangle intensifies when Jean-Claude threatens to kill Richard unless Anita gives him equal dating time.
Anita struggles to choose how she wants her life to be. Should she continuing with her current lifestyle which tends to consist of blood and corpses, or try for a more "normal" life. She also struggles with the fact that killing is becoming easier for her and she is becoming more ruthless.
Lunatic Cafe is more of what you've come to love about Anita Blake. Fast paced, action packed, and just the right amount of gore and mystery. Another one you don't want to miss.
 You cannot see me and i'm still shaking my head June 24, 2010
Avid reader (MOCKBA, RU)
The books in the series remind me of cheap and cheesy detective/horror movies.
A "weak but oh so desirable" heroine with huge ego just plain surrounded with highly attractive males (thats where they all are!!!) with long-long-long manes of flowing/silky/curly hair and endurance that rival stallion's. and moon, sun and stars rotating around her. Tacky and unattractive to me cheap thrills derived from blood gushings and disgust from various descriptions of were-changings, disfigurements, spilled guts, etc.
Why am i reading then? Well, its easier to compare a good read to bad one, or, ever better, to a great one. Reading is always a great brain workout, and it also makes me think and research things. small thougts lake shouldn't dramatic "click" happen way way way before the scary monster gets close enough to hear it? lead to wiki's info that firing a hp browning, a single action pistol, does not allow rapid fire without cocking the hammer. As a matter of fact, professionals recommended "to carry it cocked and ready to fire but with the safety on" thus removing the dramatic reoccurring "click" that author is so very partial to from Anita'a books. Hmmm what do you think is better - no clicking or a good possibility of a monster eating you?
another thing common to Anta Books - helpless enemies. no guile or menace to them. Shows how much author does not want to think past a certain point- example of Anita's weakness - she keeps waiving her guns around. A civilian who just allows a gimps of a loaded weapon looses permission to carry after first incident is reported. Would I give an advantage like that for all to witness? Naaah
Each book gets better and better! June 14, 2010
Jennifer Strope (Pittsburgh, PA USA)
Every book gets better and deeper into the life of Anita Blake. I hold on to every word about Jean-Claude! I also love the growing anticipation of Anita's relationship with Richard and what she will eventually become. I can't wait to read the next story even before I finish the one I am currently reading, I love it!
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